Is this site a "False Flag" for misogynist trolls?

Snickers Man

Somebody recently tweeted a link to the Everyday Feminism blog site with a derogatory comment about one of the articles there.

So I paid a visit and had a look. I could not believe what I was reading! Polemics with headlines such as "Ten things every intersectional feminist should ask on a first date" or "We need to stop thinking of skinny shaming as reverse discrimination" or "How to survive the holidays in a cross-class relationship" the whole site reeks of the sort of straw-man attitudes the likes of woman-baiting show ponies such as Milo Yiannapoulos seek to attribute to women in general and feminists in particular so that they can demolish them.

It doesn't appear to be an "ironic" or clearly satiric website like the Onion or Waterford Whispers. But the opinions expressed are bat-**** crazy.

Please tell me this is NOT the work of genuine, articulate, stroppy feminists but really a cunning plot by narcissistic women haters to saddle genuine feminism with an unfair burden of self obsession and silliness.

meeeeh

Does it matter? Everybody can start a blog on internet and a movement like feminism really can't be defined just by one webpage. I think that people are searching through the web to find the most outlandish and fringe claims to discredit valid points that someone is making.

meeeeh

meeeeh wrote: »

Does it matter? Everybody can start a blog on internet and a movement like feminism really can't be defined just by one webpage. I think that people are searching through the web to find the most outlandish and fringe claims to discredit valid points that someone is making.

Could you imagine if people spammed the place with the sheer amount of mra redpill sh1te out there to discredit everyone

Snickers Man

meeeeh wrote: »

Does it matter? Everybody can start a blog on internet and a movement like feminism really can't be defined just by one webpage.

Of course feminism is a broad subject, impossible to encapsulate in a single page and of course it encompasses a wide spectrum of opinion. However, given the very preponderance of opinion sites, blogs, vlogs, twitter feeds etc etc and given the easy and lazy way with which people on all sides like to harness whatever is said in "the Media" or the "MMM" or Social Media to justify their own preferences I think it is important to know whether an outlet is genuine or not.

When Jonathan Swift, nearly 300 years ago, wrote his famous Modest Proposal that the poor could alleviate their hunger and suffering simply by eating their own children, he was being bitingly satiric. Nobody thought he was making a serious suggestion.

But if you had Social Media back then you would certainly have had outraged trolls decrying the exploitative brutality of this White Privileged Colonialist Male Clergyperson as he deliberately, yes deliberately recommended interfamilial cannibalism as a mechanism for poverty relief. "Get Woke people! He really said this!! It's there in black and white!! Open your eyes to the ruthless domination of the privileged protestant patriarchy!!!"

All I'm asking is, is this website a genuine representative outlet for a serious, if minority view of feminism? I do not intend debating its content here. All I want to know, and perhaps some people here could tell me: Is it real?

Knowing the answer to this does not imply, in my eyes that one subscribes to some or all or indeed any of the views contained within.