Craig Minns

I was expecting the usual angry, personally nasty attack from you - that I ALWAYS get whenever I make a comment on an OLO gender discussion. You certainly didn't disappoint.

I have asked you in the past to stop attacking me personally. I've asked you this more than once. Now I have to ask you again.

You loathe feminist viewpoints with a passion. I get that - many, many times over. But that does NOT give you an excuse to personally bully me on a public forum every time I give my point of view.

What gives you the idea I hate feminist viewpoints? I just praised both Germain Greer and Eva Cox and I wrote a whole article in praise of feminism.

What I don't think much of is the thin-skinned women who insist on berating everyone with rubbish.

Please strive to be more like Germaine and Eva...

What part of 'Please stop attacking me personally' don't you understand? I don't know how much clearer I can make it.

Killarney,
Ask yourself why every attempt to have a discussion with you ends with you whining about people attacking you and then ask yourself why nobody bothers trying.

I've given you some simple straightforward advice about how to improve your approach. If you don't want to take it, that's up to you. However, if you continue to post offensive nonsense I'll no doubt continue to point it out from time to time.

Do try to lift your game.

Of course there have been some writing in teachers' union journals some years ago- "Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a world without men". I think Peter quoted this in an earlier article. I reckon the world's better off with both of us, warts and all

“In our media, discussion about men is monitored by, and largely written by, women.”

This is a rather unsubstantiated claim. How can such an argument be proven to be true?

Even if it were true then what is the real problem since these women are only expressing their opinions about men? They are entitled to those opinions. Men do not have to agree with those opinions. It is irrelevant that these opinions are ‘largely’ written by women. What matters is the opinions themselves and they should be judged on their merits.

Men should focus on the opinions and present counter arguments if they disagree. If women have more influence in the media and this is seen as a negative thing then it is up to men to counter that influence by fighting for their fair share of it.

It smacks of bitterness to make irrelevant claims about the gender of the authors of these opinions. Everyone has the right to free speech and the right to work in the media. If men have good arguments in response then that is all they need whoever the arguer might be.