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Care to define "misogynist asshole". These days it seems to mean "someone who believes there are behavioral differences between men and women and takes these differences seriously". Of course these beliefs appear to be true, or at least well supported by evidence. So the term ultimately seems to cash out as "someone who has a certain class of (true) beliefs that I don't like". If you meant something else by the term please specify and keep in mind you're using it in a way that is highly likely to be misunderstood.
http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/6532/what-does-you-go-to-women-do-not-forget-the-whip-mean
Sorry, is this supposed to refute my claimed definition?
Not as good a refutation as one might hope.
Second try: while it's certainly possible that one can be called a misogynist* for asserting (some) innate differences between men and women, it's also true that there's such a thing as clear expressions of hostility towards women, and I'd say that Nietzsche engaged in them.
*I'm giving "asshole" a rest, as it's just an expression of anger.
Ok, what do you mean by "hostility" because the example given in your link certainly doesn't qualify by the definition I'm used to.