woman-hater

The film starred Jack Nicholson as a lecherous woman-hater and Art Garfunkel as his morally confused friend who lusts after a “good girl” played by Candice Bergen.

Becoming a bile-spewing woman-hater will not help.

He is also a white supremacist, a woman-hater, a confirmed sexual predator, a megalomaniac and various other bad things.

And her brand of sexual politics encountered hostility from critics like Pauline Kael, Molly Haskell and Ellen Willis, who called Ms. Wertmüller “a woman-hater who pretends to be a feminist.”

The term comes from a Jacobean play, “Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women,” produced at London’s Red Bull Theatre in 1618.