'Women who imitate men lack ambition, goes the old phrase.' Lyndall Gordon, 'Mary Wollstonecraft: a new genus,' P. 452.

There are feminists who have aims such as the correction of specific injustices, real or imagined - very often, real - or whose aims are subject to considerable {restriction}: (scope) but many feminist claims are very wide-ranging. Some claims go well beyond such matters as social and economic organization, such as marriage, family norms and employment law and practice, and matters of personal life and extend to nature and the structure of reality. See, for example, Sandra Harding and Carolyn Merchant: the rape of nature.

Objections can be made to the less comprehensive and the more comprehensive forms of feminism by presenting arguments and evidence. To defend the more comprehensive feminist claims the arguments and evidence provided by feminists have to be very comprehensive. Again and again, it's found that feminist argument and evidence is anything but comprehensive: instead, the monotonous diet of feminism.

Feminists who claim that science is 'patriarchal' never seem to go beyond the broad claim and engage with specific areas of science and explain why specific areas of quantum theory, for example, are defective - or to set up a feminist body of scientific knowledge, some of which can be applied in engineering and which has predictive power.

Lyndall Gordon's statement is mentioned in passing, but to give it without any attempt to justify it was reckless and stupid. The clear implication is that men's achievements are limited and that women can easily surpass them. Without any doubt, this is a very comprehensive claim and it would need a very comprehensive examination for Lyndall Gordon or another feminist to defend it.

Lyndall Gordon is a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford. The bibliography of her book is over 20 pages long but is the opposite of comprehensive: a prime example of the 'monotonous diet,' with hardly any materials which would give an account less tinged with hagiography. My own account of Mary Wollstonecraft, obviously a much shorter one, is an attempt to put her in a much wider context than the one supplied by Lyndall Gordon.

Any case for the remarkable achievements of men (not 'Man') which is more than a bare outline of selected achievements and the men responsible for them in one area, let alone many areas, would need a vast amount of space and a vast amount of time to compile it. Obviously, it would be impossible to give even a list of any length here. On this page, I mention scientists and engineers in various places, but without any detail. Their staggering achievement can only be appreciated by exploring the detail and undertaking an examination in depth - something which feminists who minimize male achievement should do, but won't. I realize, of course, that there are feminists who are accomplished or very accomplished scientists and engineers.

Mathematics is another fruitful field and again, I realize that there are feminists who are accomplished or very accomplished mathematicians.

I'd be very surprised if a feminist  mathematician claimed that a woman who imitated these male  mathematicians, in the sense of wanting to surpass their achievement, was lacking in ambition (obviously, a much larger number of examples could easily have been given):

Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855), who contributed to and transformed virtually every area of mathematics.
Leonhard Euler (1707 - 83), the most prolific of all mathematicians.

I'd be very surprised if a feminist physicist claimed that a woman who imitated these male physicists, in the sense of wanting to surpass their achievement, was lacking in ambition (again, a very much longer list of examples could easily have been given):

Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961), the founder of wave mechanics.
Paul Dirac (1902 - 84), a major contributor to quantum mechanics.
Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867), also a chemist of genius, who created classical field theory and invented an electric dynamo, motor and transformer.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 79), who produced a unified theory of electromagnetism and the kinetic theory of gases.