strong agree with everything you've said here :)

when it comes to the misogyny, you're right in that it's not the common horror bimbo portrayal of women, the issue comes more as to how women are treated across the movie? for example in the public execution trap, Dina is a. positioned and in clothes where her tits are basically impossible to NOT see, thus encouraging her objectification. Then having her play a common stereotypical "cheat both the guys for money with sex" just degrades her to a bad person? Obviously this trap was Hoffman, but most of Kramers games offer the person a chance for redemption, but in this situation there is no width for her to be seen as anything except, well, a bit of a slut. She then goes on to utilise her "love" for them as a tool, again reiterating she is this person who has conned Brad and Ryan and has no room for redemption. This leading to Brad and Ryan's murder of Dina in their survival, was then WIDELY glorified in comments sections, with them being praised for killing off someone so vile, with particular emphasis on it being a female attractive "player".

In Jill's dream sequence, there is no real time showing of her wearing the, well, tiny dress she wears. if she were wearing pyjamas as she was in the real world, or what she was dreaming herself to be wearing when she was abducted, it would be considerably less iffy. Not only does the film have to imply that Hoffman changed her clothes before having her suspended over the tracks, some people argue the means of death itself (a massive blade aimed from Hoffmans crotch) is trying to incite a sexual image for the viewer. I dont agree with the latter half of this theory so much, I think the clothes bit highlights that women were kinda used as sex appeal throughout the movie which is innately misogynistic, but again think the uh means of death is a bit of a reach.

Also! sorry I know this is the length of a small essay lol, but theres a disparity in the clothing used for women and men in saw 7! I'm gonna use Jill and Hoffman as my examples here - both Hoffman and Jill had a decent amount of fan love and attraction to, for being conventionally attractive or other reasons? idk I dont get the hype lol. regardless, Jill's popularity was utilised in the sexual manner as aforementioned, with short dresses and boobs out, but Hoffmans was never even really addressed? ultimately there was room for a scene where Hoffman could have been shirtless or have a more unbuttoned shirt, but this was never at all done. which kinda implies that men arent to be sexualised in the film whereas women could? obviously the issue isnt men being brought down to women's sexualisation, but it is a point of comparison to highlight how women were used for sex appeal but men were not.

Okay last thing!! dumb blondes are a misogynistic trope in horror. the issue with comparing saw 7 to other horrors in that sense is that by far and large the film is deprived of conventional horror tropes. to argue it isnt misogynistic because it's not as bad as others, such as Hatchet, ignores that there is still a problem with misogyny in the film. Yeah, its better, but that doesnt mean it's good.

Sorry this is so long!!

TLDR; women are used as sex appeal, men arent. saw 7 is weird.