Taylor is aware of the perception that he is the innocent, exploitable babe in the woods of the Geelong defence.

It is in the entextualisation of the perlocutionary aspect of his reaction to the woman's speeches that we will find the answer.

Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed.

What would cause this reversal in a male's development? One possible answer could be that an overdominant mother is seductive to the child, and the father is weak and detached.