[ noun ] a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular <noun.person>
Misogynist \Mi*sog"y*nist\ (m[i^]*s[o^]j"[i^]*n[i^]st), n. [Gr. misogy`nhs, misogy`naios; misei^n to hate + gynh` woman: cf. F. misogyne.] A woman hater. Contrast {misandrist}. --Fuller. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Like most of Bernhard's narrators, he's an enraged misogynist, a cruelly self-absorbed, manipulative, self-vaunting and self-hating monomaniac (to put it gently).
Eliot's anti-Semitism, which was certainly a minor aspect of his writing, did fit together with similarly trivial pieces of racist and misogynist doggerel that Eliot scholarship, including Mrs. Eliot's, is bringing to general attention.