I still like Bubblegum Crisis, warts and all. It's basically a given with 80s-90s anime (and honestly a lot of anime even today) that something racist and/or misogynist will happen; you have to learn to compartmentalize things. Are there anime that don't do this stuff? Of course. Are there some that lean way too heavily into it and completely irredeemable? Of course. Everyone's tolerances and where "the line" is drawn are gonna be different. But ultimately a bunch of cool ladies in bad ass looking robot suits fuck up anime Terminators while living in Blade Runner City™, and that hits a lot of buttons for me. It's...uh, not the MOST misogynist thing I've ever seen...? *sweats profusely*
Also yeah Lodoss War rules. They made it into a TV show later but it's mostly boring and looks impossibly shitty so stick to the OVA. If you REALLY wanna get wild, Legend of the Galactic Heroes has a 100+ episode OVA that is insanely good but also 100+ episodes and about politics and war so it's not for everyone. But it rules at doing that! The Patlabor OVAs and Gundam OVAs (War in the Pocket and Stardust Memory) are both good, with the former being top tier and the latter being incredibly stupid but maybe the most gorgeous looking thing Sunrise has ever done.
If you really wanna go for it, there's a bunch of City Hunter movies and specials from the 80s. It's a hard recommend, with the main character being a "cool guy" who, for comic relief, is basically a "womanizer" and a "creep" who runs around stealing panties and shit and then his female partner beats the shit out of him with a Looney Tunes-style gigantic hammer. It's meant to be a buddy cop/romance action-comedy thing, and I think it works, but the material is clearly extremely dated. The movies don't lean as heavily on that stuff (the 2nd one is basically what is Ryo did a Die Hard?), and most of the truly objectionable material is in the TV show (he very clearly tries to slip drugs into a woman's drink in one episode...or maybe that was one of the movies? I don't remember but the point is ughhhhhhghggggghhhh nooooooo barfffff), but yeah...lots of well drawn 80s animation, and sometimes it's actually funny, but you really have to be able to ignore one of the central premises of the concept and the main character to get into it and that's extremely hard to do.