Why did some Athenians consider Euripides a woman hater?

Some Athenians considered Euripides a woman hater because his tragedies frequently featured heroines who were depicted as fierce, treacherous, or adulterous. This reputation for misogyny was a common perception in his own day, though modern scholars often view it as an oversimplification of his complex psychological realism.1

The playwright Aristophanes famously satirized this reputation in his comedy Women at the Thesmophoria. In the play, the women of Athens, angered by Euripides' constant attacks upon them in his works, gather at a festival to plot his death. The comedy depicts their indignation at how they were portrayed in his tragedies, highlighting the extent to which his characters' actions—often driven by uncontrolled passions and flawed natures—were perceived as a direct assault on women.123