He's obviously been thinking about it as he grew more mature,
What exactly has he been thinking about?
You're saying the philosophy of Women are just naturally weak is something Zoro subconsciously believes
But then this isn't actually true in Zoro experience is it? Kina was clearly stronger than him and he himself warned luffy about getting involved with big mom. He was willing to serve up Sanji on a plate to avoid fighting a woman.
So what's happening here? Is he just delusional? That he actively knows from experience that women can be powerhouses as much as any man but he's somehow delusional that thus philosophy he knows is wrong is still engraved in him for reasons?
Or maybe it's not the women are naturally weak, it's that women are just worth mercy, what Sanji thinks. Maybe this also Zoro's philosophy and then the question is, where did this come from?
Like where did Zoro get this idea that Women are just worth the benefit whether weak or strong? Did he get this off screen from nowhere? Is it just plain sexism that sipped in from the culture around him?
Which of the two exactly is Zoro about? Because the Koshiro philosophy has clear holes considering he factually knows it's untrue. And the Sanji philosophy comes from nowhere apparently and is then disproven a number of times.
See the problem here. Oda chooses things for the sake of tone and plot over character. For example we both agree that if Zoro were to fight Smoothie, he'd go all out and cut her down leaving her in a bloody pool right?. So Oda WILL NEVER show this. Oda will not have his male protagonist cut down a woman in this extremely violent way despite it being very clearly within Zoro's character. Because plot and tone dictate what type of situations characters get into.
Luffy can comically send alvida flying because it's funny on panel. Zoro CANNOT cut down Tashigi because it's extremely disturbing and violent. It's supposedly the same thing, the two main characters have defeated a woman. But one implies completely different things visually than another.
Technically sending alvida flying across the horizon is MUCH more destructive force than simply cutting Tashigi across the chest right? Technically Alvida has taken nor damage. And yet one looks like comedy, the other looks like horror. So one will happen and the other will not.
Zoro as far as everything we've seen doesn't prescribe to either Koshiro or Sanji's way of thinking but the story dictates that he cannot be shown cutting down a woman where it's a weak woman or a strong one. And so Zoro will never fight a strong woman like Smoothie and he'll just fuck around with monet a weak woman. Because plot said so. Not because his character did