The point is to ask if you thought the folks in question -- like Novella's group NECCS or whatever its initials are -- are outlying, radical groups that aren't espousing real feminism. Lindy West and Zoe Quinn took him to task - are they not real feminists? They are espousing a wacky extreme view?rEvolutionist wrote:What's the point? All of us here think FTB are a joke. And you know my views on what regular feminism is.Forty Two wrote:Rev? Are you in agreement -- the folks on FTB and at the various skeptic groups bitching about Dawkins on this issue are jokes? Are they relevant to real feminism or are these folks outlying extremists who ought not be mentioned when discussing feminism?laklak wrote:Dickie should tell them to jam it up their nether regions. Fuck skeptic conventions, more like septic conventions in my mind. These people are about as relevant to real life as somebody else's hemorrhoids. I'd say fuck them and the horse they rode in on, but the horse is so goddamn high you couldn't get to it's asshole without a cherry picker. Do you think they realize that outside their hermetically sealed little femisphere they're jokes? That's if people are aware of them at all. Once you get out of your sophomore year you have better things to do. This is my take on it and pretty much everything else:
Your views on what regular feminism is is a different question.