Vanna <"You are quite free to look back through my posts to find a single negative comment made about women."

Vanna, I should think most people would recognize feminists (academic or otherwise) as being predominantly female.
It sounds to me like you feel very, very threatened by bright, well educated females?

Given this fact, I would like to point out just a few of your anti-female comments from this thread alone:

Vanna <:
"...single women, who so often complain that they can’t find a man who will “commit”. This basically hides the fact that they can’t find a man who actually likes them."

"...the main principle of feminism, which is to use men for their money and their sperm."

"...the narrow-mindedness of a feminist."

Oh dear me! That doesn't sound very nice does it?

Oh, and no, I haven't found a mention of a female academic that has had anything good to comment about the male gender.

Neither have I found any positive comment written about the female gender by any male academic chauvinist either.

Have you?

vanna: << You are quite free to look back through my posts to find a single negative comment made about women. >>

Hilarious. Vanna's lately learned to express his misogyny indirectly.

However, in his previous incarnations he wasn't nearly as discreet:

When he was HRS: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/user.asp?id=30937

When he was Timkins: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/user.asp?id=6333

I guess that's why he changes his ID regularly :)

Suzanonline, CJ Morgan
Find the comments where I have said something negative about the female gender (and those who call themselves feminist do not represent men or women, but represent feminists only).

Also find an article published by an academic feminist employed in an Australian university that says something positive about the male gender.

Best of luck in finding either.

vanna, "You found it almost impossible to find a single positive comment made by university academics about the male gender."

I found it easy to find positive comment's about men written by university academics. It's feminist academics from australian universities which was the group I did not do so well. Then you hit issues around the debate of male pro-feminists, Michael Flood being one who may not meet some peoples definition of feminist (being male) but who is not anti-male (although anti much of the men's rights movement).

The piece on Men's shed's included enough references to feminist writing and values that I suspect that the author's would consider themselves feminist or pro-feminist but because their area of research is not gender studies their personal stance on feminism is not the issue.

I was disgusted by the tone of most of the identified feminist academic work I found and some but it's probably fair to assume that the field of gender studies attracts the more extreme feminists. The stances towards men and masculinity found in that material are not reflective of the views of most of the women I know (feminist or otherwise).

It's also reasonable to point out that google is not the best way to deal with a review of academic writing in a field that I don't know well. It was clear that a lot of published feminist academic work was disturbingly anti-male/anti-masculine but that does not mean that there are not substantial bodies of work which I missed, nor does it mean that most feminists but into that extremity.

R0bert

vanna "You are quite free to look back through my posts to find a single negative comment made about women."

I think I've made the point previously about the difference between attacking feminism and attacking women but you do blur that boundary.

Most of the papers I found were critical of masculinity rather than specifically men, does that make them OK or does it make up for the lack of positives about males or masculinity in most of those papers?

If your concern is just with feminists and not all women what positive things do you have to say about women? I don't recall ever seeing a generally positive comment from you about women as a group.

I attempted to answer you call. I was honest about what I found. I did find some material which I think meets the criteria. Now it's your turn.

Write 5 things about women that you respect and value. They don't have to be uniquely female but trait's that are generally more female than male.

Just to clarify breast's count as one, not two for the purposes of my challenge.

R0bert

Robert,
You have not found any negative comments I have made about women.

You only listed one source of comments made by academic feminists that said something positive about men (a dismal record for universities in general).

Good points about women?

When they show honesty, integrity, honour, and are not narrow-minded or discriminatory in their outlook.

Difficult to find any of the above in an academic feminist, and because so many are welcommed into universities, it is now difficult to find any of the above in universities.