I can get fascinated by male characters who have issues with women based on something other than cultural sexism. For example, Nero Wolfe, the ingenious detective of the book series by Rex Stout from the 1930s to 1960s, who came to my attention a few years ago when A&E faithfully reproduced several of the books as a TV series.

Nero’s attitudes toward women become hard to label as misogyny when we learn he doesn’t like men much, either - he’s simply … READ MORE