Turns out, feminists actually like men just fine.

[terriko]

One of the more irksome problems when it comes to being a feminist is constantly explaining that no, feminism is not being about anti-men. So I have to say, I'm rather enamoured of this study that shows that feminists aren't that hostile to men -- Not a surprise, it's just going to be hilarious the next time someone's throwing accusations about and I'll be able to say, "actually, they did a study and showed that that's not true." (Surprisingly, being able to cite random studies actually does stop some folk in their tracks, particularly geek folk who like to believe that they respect science.)

What's much weirder is that the study actually implies that some of the real man-haters are non-feminists. I'm not sure I quite buy the theory for this put forward in the blog article I've linked, but it's interesting food for thought.

Comments

Re: feminists

[(Anonymous)]

Pet peeve: people who discuss studies without referencing the study in question. Cite your sources, people! (Not directed against you - you linked your source, it just wasn't the original)

The blog you link to is particularly egregious: they reproduce tables from the original study, so they've obviously seen it, but they don't name the lead author, the journal, the title of the study or any identifying information other than the institutional affiliation (U. of Houston). For goodness' sake, even the Ottawa Citizen usually does better than that.

Anyway, using the named source for a quote about the study, I was able to track down the original:

Kristin J. Anderson, Melinda Kanner and Nisreen Elsayegh, "ARE FEMINISTS MAN HATERS? FEMINISTS' AND NONFEMINISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD MEN," Psychology of Women Quarterly 33(2):216-224. 2009.

Abstract: Despite the popular belief that feminists dislike men, few studies have actually examined the empirical accuracy of this stereotype. The present study examined self-identified feminists' and nonfeminists' attitudes toward men. An ethnically diverse sample (N = 488) of college students responded to statements from the Ambivalence toward Men Inventory (AMI; Glick & Fiske, 1999). Contrary to popular beliefs, feminists reported lower levels of hostility toward men than did nonfeminists. The persistence of the myth of the man-hating feminist is explored.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122352953/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 (Full-text is readable if you're on a Carleton IP.)

I, too, have a couple of methodological and philosophical concerns with the study (mostly related to the inclusion/exclusion criteria and the choice of operant definitions), but I'm supposed to be working right now, so that'll have to wait.

Alex