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

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No, but some of them talk about it.

Yeah, they can talk as much as they want.
I also talk about a lot of stuff, not that I think it can really be archived or not, it's just talk.

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.

I know of this manifesto. I also know of the writer, who seems to be keen on assasinating people she doesn't like, but I don't normally view things in terms of individuals, unless they are individuals of real importance, like people who have contributed to the overall ideology, or lead the ideas of people that follow the movement, and she's in no such position.
Like it can be a very funny conversation topic for women to joke about killing the male sex and all between friends and family, but I'm not really certain that people are keen to take this on the battlefield.

You can find some pretty hateful things online, too. The internet has been quite useful for extremists to publish their extremism views.

Yes, but I believe that most of these extremes rather dwell in the lands of dreams.

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.

Yes, that's the beauty of the internet. But I don't think that it's too much of a problem unless bands of women gather around with scalpels and baseball bats and go around castrating men like the amazons of the old, who did this with a rather religious overtone.

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

It's as you said, it's crazy, therefore I don't really put much value on it. They don't even have political weight, what really is their worth anyways?