Can we have an honest, balanced, down to earth discussion about feminism?

[TaraJo]

Yes, but it would not fall within the concerns of life sciences section, perhaps philosophy? history and politics?

Apologies. New girl here who doesn't know exactly what goes where. I just saw the thread on ex-gays and another on gender identity disorder and figured this fell into similar territory (probably because I'm getting over dealing with a herd of feminists who would be incredibly offended if it's seen differently). It probably is more a social science than anything, although even the science part is questionable because most of the theories in feminism aren't disprovable or tested.

Well, I don't know. How batshit could feminism be, really? Back in the day, they used to chain themselves somewhere and throw themselves in front of galloping horses, but now all they do is to write, talk and discuss. The content of these talks, writings and discussions is unimportant, as they're only ideas. Something becomes important once it becomes action, and I see no feminist army that vowed to rid the earth of men.

No, but some of them talk about it.

The SCUM manifesto is the single biggest example. I can forgive the writer since she wasn't really in touch with reality, but the otherwise sane people who try t defend it, no, they're crazy.

You can find some pretty hateful things online, too. The internet has been quite useful for extremists to publish their extremism views. There was one called 'The divine feminist blog' where she said some pretty crazy things, to the point that other feminists considered her a feminist version of Poe's Law. It's been taken down, but you can look up when other people have talked about her; her most infamous post was talking about creation of 'international castration day' where all men have to go out and have their testicles cut off, in a fairly public setting.

Heck, just spend ten minutes going through radfem hub and you'll see the kinds of crazy shit that will make your eyes bleed.

And one of the first lessons I've learned about psychology is that those ideas that are voiced and spread with these kinds of writings, they impact our actions and our feelings and our perceptions.