Travels are over

I pushed my way through and finished Gulliver's Travels and am glad I did. I can't resist a footnote, but I did not understand all of them.
There were small areas throughout all the chapters of GT that I enjoyed. Most were the precise, sometimes jewel-like, descriptions of the respective complications of Gulliver's huge or tiny size in the two first lands he visited.
I could not help but react to Swift's misogynist take on women of the visited countries. Are there women who write with such disgust about men?
I also read his satirical essay on solving the "Irish problem." A Modest Proposal is an essay that could be written today about other problems, I am sure. Or maybe Calvin Trillin could do a long poem for The Nation!