I can't improve much on what KornOriginals said earlier so I will add to it.
I find it amusing that for a site that claims to be against fundamentalism there are so many comments among its regulars that reek of that mindset.
One might say that the antithesis of fundamentalism is skepticism. From the dictionary:
"strict adherence to the fundamental principles of any set of beliefs"
One of the most interesting uses of the word that I am aware of is with respect to investing. A fundamentalist in investing is only interested in the "fundamentals" of a stock, how well the company is doing, cash-flow, management team, etc. Daytraders are not fundamentalist nor are those who look at the shape of the stocks price history for clues about the next run-up or sell-off. So I can even concede that not *all* uses of the word are pejorative, though almost all are.
A couple years ago I just stumbled on a controversy concerning the publication of an individual's personal information online, including admonitions to "hunt her down", "ruin her life" etc. and the crux of that talk led me to a site called "A Voice for Men". If you want to find fundamentalists, look there. Another group of "fundies" can be found (you hardly have to look these days) among the gaming community who think that the audacity of a relatively unknown woman critiquing the male dominated aspects of some video games is the end of the world. Finally I watched a video yesterday extolling the virtues of the MGTOW lifestyle consisting of little more than "I can't get a keep a girlfriends because I can't afford nice things, so people who have girlfriends or nice things are stupid and I'm going to enjoy life without them!" What is this if not asceticism re-invented with a game controller? (And a PC and digital camera apparently).
In any event, Femitheist is the farthest thing in the world from a fundamentalist (in that pejorative sense). After AVFM decided she was worthy of their scorn I took a look for myself to see what all the fuss was about and found nothing. I did find among her detractors though a couple of people who I had run into in online forums in the past who had worn out their welcome there for harassing people they didn't like and the people they harassed had only one thing in common: they were popular. This gave me some sense that maybe the target of these attacks wasn't what the "true believers" of these various groups said she was. (Keyword=envy)
Going against the crowd, I decided to investigate this person myself. While I had no intention of "doxing" anyone be they friend or foe, I just wondered what kind of kook was being talked about here. The shear volume of the outrage indicated that there *must* be something to it. (Keywords=conformity, orthodoxy). I'm not the first investigator to say that I wasn't straightforward in my techniques. I didn't just approach her online and say "are you as crazy as they say you are?" I took my time. I got to know her, and her friends and her enemies until I was interacting with her, and them in one way or another on a daily basis.
I was able to determine the essence of her research methods, some of the plans she had for a book she wants to write and even details of her family life, none of which I have any intention to reveal. (Keyword=ethics)
What I will say is this... The picture painted of her by AVfM is so diametrically different than the reality as to be libelous. Libel is hard and expensive to pursue though, a fact that they count on as they "expose" those that they done't like (as long as those they don't like don't have the resources to conduct a lengthy court case).
Once their mischief has been set in motion AVfM can clean up their web site (as so many did after the Elliot Rodger story), set it so that it can't be archived at Archive.org and so on and move on to other money-making schemes. Like the TV preachers of last century, nothing brings in the contributions like controversy. (Keyword=hucksterism)
Vice is a magazine/web property that I was surprised to find was much more successful than any operation sch as AVfM, if for no other reason than they seek hits wherever they can find them rather than in just one disgruntled corner of he manoshpere. They don't seek contributions, they seek advertising.
We've concluded that what they did with Femitheist was not so much a "hit piece" as it was a "man bites dog" piece. Another way to say that colloquially is that their favorite question is "When did you stop beating your wife?"
They asked intentionally provocative questions (I've seen both the original questions and answers) and then for publication they shortened both questions ans answers to be more "interesting". Interspersed with the questions and answers are the questioners own hastily drawn assumptions about things, again, coincidentally making the subject seem quite a bit more controversial than it really is. (Keyword=Sex-Sells)
Finally let me conclude by saying that for the growing number of web sites, blog, vlogs and so on that have endlessly cut-and-pasted the juicy bits (mostly from said interspersed commentary rather than from the actual answers) it provides an interesting insight into how far the practice of journalism (if it can still be called that) has descended.
As a computer scientist, I always found it hard to look past the anachronisms and outright errors committed by Hollywood when they depicted computers as nothing but spinning reel to reel tape drives and randomly blinking lights. I would lose respect for these movies and those who produced them and eventually for Hollywood altogether.
Likewise, knowing a subject first hand and seeing how it is covered makes it easy to distinguish those sites that operate with any sense of curiosity versus those who only are filling a web page with any sort of fluff that will attract the hits.
For the majority who just want to keep the circle-jerk going, the insanity of the accusations only discredit the accusers in the long run. Like the MGTOWs, they will pump each other up in their own little isolated gathering places. (Keyword=idiocracy)
For the few who take an actual interest and that might include some of the five percent of you who managed to read this far, a few (but no all) will see value in her writings and will also see that she is a genuine compassionate person who while being the victim of much abuse, does not dwell on that and moves on to the betterment of herself and those around her.
By my association with Femitheist I've accumulated a group of open and honest friends with whom I can have conversations on many topics in which we do not all agree, but we do agree to discuss them in a civil manner. We actually change one another's minds from time to time, which is something I can't say about most of the Internet.
Now lately I also have a list of web sites from which I would never expect to get any factual information. They are curiosities, anachronisms, like the old bad science fiction movies, to be viewed only with mocking amusement after one is too tired to be productive.
Keep up the ... "work". And watch out for the Fundies. They are everywhere!