Was the Buddha misogynistic?

Question

The introduction to the Dhamma Wiki's Buddhism and Misogyny article says,

Nevertheless, there are some non-Buddhists and even some Buddhists that contend that the Buddha was misogynistic. This is because of some passages in the Buddhist scriptures, the Tipitaka that appear sexist, that the Buddha was reluctant to ordain women, that the bhikkhuni line ended and cannot be revived, that the Buddha said that the teachings (religion) would only last 500 years because women were given permission to ordain as nuns (bhikkhunis), because of the extra rules that were imposed on the female monastics, including the eight ‘heavy rules,’ and the passage that states that only a man can be a samma-sam-buddha who teaches the masses after the teachings have died out.

Was the Buddha misogynistic?

Answer 1

1. Buddha said women can be Enlightened.
2. In an unprecedented move for the times, Buddha allowed women to ordain as Buddhist wanderers.
3. Buddha added numerous rules to Vinaya to protect women practitioners from the abuse of men practitioners.
4. Buddha said that part of the path to Enlightenment is abandoning gender biases (AN 7.48)
5. Buddha was a big opponent of the traditional practice of having widows join their deceased husbands on the funeral pyre.
6. Buddha gave many teachings specifically for lay women.
7. Both the 500 years prediction and the idea that only man can be a buddha seem to be later additions as they are present in some versions of texts and absent from others.

Answer 2

Here is the root/etymology of the word misogyny

misogyny (n.)
1650s, from Modern Latin misogynia, from Greek misogynia, from misogynes "woman-hater," from miso- (see miso-) + gyne "woman".

And:

miso-
word-forming element meaning "hater, hatred," before vowels, mis-, comb. form of Greek misos "hatred," misein "to hate." Productive as a word-forming element in ancient Greek, for instance misoagathia "hatred of good or goodness;" misoponein "to hate work." Forming many compounds in English, most of them obscure or recherche, but some perhaps useful, for example misocapnic (adj.) "hating (tobacco) smoke," misocyny "hatred of dogs."

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If the word "misogyny" does mean something like that, then I think that the answer is "no": i.e. it doesn't seem to me plausible to attribute "hatred" to the Buddha.

WIthin Buddhism, hatred (which is also translated as "aversion") is (together with greed and delusion) called a root of evil -- and the opposites of hatred i.e. adveṣa (non-aggression, lack of hatred), and mettā (loving-kindness) are seen as "wholesome".