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Synesthesia on 30 December 2015
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Rêveur said:

I think my faith in humanity has just been restored! I came across an article on Gawker a while back about a feminist trolling men's rights activists with quotes from Good will Hunting and that was linked through Kotaku, and pretty much all the opinions were the opposite of these. Many qualified Men's Rights Activists (MRAs) as pu**ies and used very violent and derogatory terms to qualify them. I was so shocked at the one-sidedness of the comments that I actually created an account just to try to give people some facts and to defend, as briefly as possible, the MRA movement.

Unfortunately, it would seem that society is so brainwashed that people, men included, don't understand the necessity of MRAs and the MRA movement. So conditioned are people that they will automatically jump at any MRAs as a reflex without taking the time to do research or think critically. So conditioned they are to political correctness and feminist views that they claim men have nothing to complain about, that men have all the privileges, that the only ones who suffer are women. I truly felt that humanity was coming to an end.

Reading these comments on this site has really restored my faith that people are not as brainwashed as I thought, that they are capable of thinking for themselves and against the polically correct conditioned views feminists would like us all to have. Gawker isn't Jezebel (in which case I would understand better the comments), but the violence of the comments made me understand that Kotaku and the associated sites are run by extreme feminists, either because of political correctness or by ignorance on men's issues.

I would just like to extend a big thank you to all! Thanks!

Well through out history and many different issues there are always more extreme views. So far History eventually shuns them. The days when science was condemned and often looked at as witchcraft or blasphemy are long over... for the most part. Lessons can be learned on how extreme view points can be with people thinking they are not.  It's not a hive Mind but groups of people can be swayed into a skewed vision or misleading position. Teaching a child 2+2=5 doesn't mean the child is at fault, they believe it to be true because of what they thought they learned.

A person, group or figure (Kotaku in your example) typically gravitate torward the overall mindset. It's why people like Anita Sarkeensian can blatantly change the definition of sexism and get away with it or using tactics of making one good point then fallowed by a more extreme one trying to ease people into the mindset that they are overall in the right allowing criticisms to be ignored. Society will likely be able to move on and remember these people for what they are... Nutjobs.

All facades eventually break or fail so long as the general populations intelligence increases. Ironically even those extreme views serve as something to learn from.

 

 

Also it's worth noting due to an earlier conversation. The reason for Men and women groups is for more focused discussion. It's not uncommon for all types of things to be cut up and made individual discussion.  It may not always be preductive but overall the thinking and mindset on how it should work is sound... If it will be productive, thats another story.