Oh, yeah, this! In general, the idea that a woman exists to be a “perfect priestess” (I think that is a direct quote from Rand’s original description of Dominique) for the Heroic Man. GAG! Dagny isn’t so bad-- at least she has her own railroad-- but Dominique seems to exist solely to be a girl toy.
Jack Kerouac. Every woman in On the Road is described by two things: Her hair color and whether Sal Paradise had sex with her. Really, no other details.
Joss Whedon. Why do his heroines have such stripper names? Not exactly egregious, but worth a reconsideration.
Francis Ford Coppola. All the women in the Godfather movies are whiny enablers. Except Fredo’s wife, who’s just whiny. The Sopranos was nuanced by comparison.
Tucker Max, Author of “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.” Easily one of the most disgusting books I’ve ever read.
You know there are people on this board deciding on your method of execution at this very moment don’t you? Besmerching the name of his holiness Joss, that’s a paddling, for damn sure.
More seriously, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is known as Buffy because that is a stereotypical name for a blonde-haired valley girl on the cheerleading squad. her actual portrayal as an asskicker who literally holds the fate of the world in her hands, is a direct subversion of this whole thread.
Buffy, Willow, Faith, Glory, Harmony–stripper names.
Willow - Hippie-like. Also a clue to Willow’s wallflower nature when the show starts.
Faith - Religious allusion
Glory - Blonde-haired valley girl who is secretly an asskicker redux
Harmony - See above, minus the asskicker part
Beyond this armchair analysis, none of the characters on Buffy had normal names. Look at the men: Xander, Oz, Giles, Riley, Liam/Angel, Forrest, etc, etc.
Hmmm. Willow, Faith, Glory, Harmony… just exactly which of the torturing, murdering emotional basket cases above are meant to be indicative of the creator’s positive view of women?
I have forgotten his name, but the japanese video game producer behind titles such as Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive seems pretty misogynistic. Not that there aren’t strong female characters in those games, it’s just that they are so obviously reduced to T&A. Even when they are reborn into hell demons.
3trew: Do you also think Kill Bill is misogynistic?
Tomonobu Itagaki. Oh yeah, any man that is proud of the fact that all of his female characters have huge bouncing exposed breasts (even when they’re fighting demons from hell) has issues with women.
Plus, there’s the fact he can’t keep his hands to himself and is always playing grab-ass with his female co-workers.
He almost gets away from the trend on Firefly, but I think that Summer (still a stripperiffic name) has enough baggage to make up for the rest. And let’s not forget Inara, the hooker with a heart of gold. 
(It’d be a sucker bet if you bet against Whedon having a “martial arts/magical girls who can kick my ass and are emotionally damaged” fetish.)
That issue being testosterone ? 
Really, speaking as a straight male, I don’t think there’s any particular connection between liking implausibly endowed female characters and respect or lack thereof towards women. That’s a sex thing, not a respect thing.
Now that does show either disrespect for women or a serious lack of impulse control ( not good either way ). But that’s not actually in the games so doesn’t qualify as what the OP was asking for I think.
Author James Michner (author of Hawaii, Centennial, Space, Tales of the South Pacific, Alaska, Poland, etc.) was asked about his inability to really create solid believable, likable women characters in his novels and he admitted it. He said something to the effect that he starts out with good intentions but then she turns into a bitch, (Caravans), goes crazy (Hawaii), finds she’s a racist (Tales of the South Pacific, Sayranaro), dies (Centennial) and so forth.
You can’t make a judgment about Harlan Ellison based on the movie A Boy and his Dog. First of all, Ellison himself was not happy about the way the movie was adapted from his original story. Second of all, he wrote a sequel to that story which was much more sympathetic to the female point of view.
I’ve been reading The Essential Ellison and I can say with certainty that I haven’t picked up even the slightest hint of any misogynistic attitudes on Ellison’s part. Everything he writes about women comes off as extremely kind, understanding, and without any kind of sexism or chauvinism whatsoever. In all of his dealings and relationships with women, Ellison appears to be a true gentleman, at least from what he has written of it.
The “little fuck” anecdote about him is also totally untrue. “He walked up to a woman at a party, said ‘what do you say to a little fuck’, and she said ‘hello, little fuck.’” It’s a funny joke but it did not happen to Harlan Ellison.
As for Garp: allegations of misogyny against this work are also completely unfounded. Garp’s mother was presented as a loving, dynamic, strong and positive female character. It was Garp himself who was flawed and insecure; the story is not an anti-woman polemic but an extremely deep and complex look into the psyche of someone who grew up under bizarre circumstances.
River. Summer is the actress’s *real *name.
Also, Cordelia’s and Harmony’s names are ironic, although Cordy grows into hers.
:smack: Right. I always mix those up. Still works.
Look, Dominique isn’t an example of hatred of women. It’s an example of wishful thinking. Howard Roark treated Dominique the way Ayn Rand wanted Frank/Nathaniel to treat her.
Yeah, I don’t get the stripper name idea. Setting aside Buffy, since that is a deliberate joke, I was going through names in my head: “Willow? Faith? Kaylee? Caroline? Penny? Fred, fergodsake?”
To answer the original question: Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. There, I think I win the thread. 
But I still also have to add Stephenie Meyer. No matter how many of my friends and acquaintances like the books, I could never get over the atrocious messages about what it means to be a woman, what love is about, and how to deal with sex.
I got that impression from Walter Mosley after reading “Devil in a Blue Dress.” It’s been a long, long time since I read the book, so I don’t remember what it was about it in particular. But, yes, huge issues with women.
It becomes a respect thing in the way that it’s handled. I don’t think anybody really cares if Itagaki privately enjoys “implausaibly endowed female characters”, but he is responsible of creating them and making sure that the viewer knows *exactly *what their purpose is.
Like I said, I don’t know Ellison personally so I can’t say how he really feels about women-- also he collaborated with the director of the film, so he couldn’t be too upset about how it turned out.
In the novella, since women are the weaker sex, almost all die. The ones that remain are for raping-- in both the book and the movie. All the females who are not fodder for screamers or raping are vapid or evil or manipulative or stupid or all of the above rolled up into one.
For fuck’s sake, at the end he chooses his dog over a woman-- and eats the woman!