Single Shot said:
You know, just like all people who lash out against a movement, group, ideology or whatever, you deliberately misrepresent them/it. I don't know if you yourself are choosing to deliberately misrepresent it, but what I do know, is that you obtained your information in either two ways. 1.Somebody directed you to it, which if traced back means there was deliberate misrepresentation somewhere, or 2. You researched it yourself, and made some conscious choice in screening the information you decided was worth paying attention to.
You see, you cant just point to the lunatic fringe of a movement/ideology and claim that it is representative of the whole, which is not just exactly what you are doing, its about the only thing you are doing. Valerie Solanas? Seriously? Get fucking real man. She is a fringe lunatic whom no feminist academic at the time took seriously let alone today. It was male hate cloaked in feminist ideology. It wasn't even ideological hate, but rather just your more run of the mill kind, as the events of her life proved that she was dependant on a man for her psychological stability and killed him when faced with rejection. Hardly the independent woman feminism envisions.
'Protesting changes to rape laws that would mean women can rape men'
Again this is ridiculous, the majority of feminists where actually offended by the old law that implied that women where physically incapable of rape. Just like everyone around these forums, your understanding of feminism is incredibly limited and you are selective of what you choose to learn about it.
Mary Daly?! Again really? You continually point to the extremists. I will tell you from my personal experience as the sole male who attended numerous feminist classes at university, there is no hostile atmosphere in there, if anything they welcome the educating of men on what feminism is really about.
If you took the time to really explore feminism you would realise that they are not about female superiority. In fact they are very interested in the emancipation of the human race as a whole, reaching out and developing deep links with race studies and male studies. I would in fact say that the defining aspect of feminism as a critical perspective today is its underlying claim that addressing the inequality and oppression related to race, gender, sexuality, and body type, is more pertinent than class inequality. In other words, it is a critical alternative to Marxism.