I agree reading all sides is important. But there's a difference between wanting to read all sides, and thinking either extreme are generally worthwhile reporters. I don't trust any media, either, and I think that's healthy. But there are extreme outliers. And I think the assumption that you can read extremism regularly, and remain unaffected is mistaken, personally. We are, all of us, a product of what we consume.
Even extremists will make good points at times. People behave as though past totalitarian regimes are fictional, and could never happen again. They're not - as we saw a couple of years ago, in Charlottesville. If aspects of such ideologies could never appeal to anyone sensible, they'd not have got very far. They always managed to offer a coalition of angry people - often with good reason to be angry - just enough to keep them on side... at least, while they still needed them. And while I'm more than willing to vote for whichever mainstream party protects women's basic right to exist as a definable group of people, I wouldn't vote for the BNP, even then. Breitbart is more BNP than Tory and nope, won't touch them.
Of course I understand why women turn to those who don't demonise us for daring to point out that we're fully human, and have a right to our own personhood. That we exist as a sex, and that there is indeed an erasure being vehemently demanded: our own. It's absolutely horrifying, that we are even having to have this conversation in 2020 - that no, male people do not have the right to dictate to women, not only what provision we may have but who and what we even are. The hypocrisy that this is coming from groups that bleat about lived experience and 'nothing about us without us' is quite extraordinary, and the epitome of male entitlement. That doesn't mean that I'm okay with anyone using slurs, or treating any other group as less than human, no matter what support they offer us here.
Anyone who thinks women should be forced to accept a male in a space where they're getting undressed, or asleep, or otherwise vulnerable is an absolute arsehole. Anyone calling women who protest about that horrendous abuse of our rights a bigot is a misogynist abuser. Plain and simple. They are foul. This is a human rights issue - and women's human rights matter. But as soon as you're willing to loosen that principle for any other group, then you're treating all people's human rights as dispensable, and conditional on behaviour you approve of. And, as we've seen on the left of late, that's a path to nowhere good. Not least, for women.
I appreciate views on this differ, and that many women feel that when you're facing an existential threat to feminism, you have to focus on women's rights above all else. I just don't feel that a world that allows anyone's rights to be jettisoned, even if the group in question often seem to despise our own, is a good place to be.
That's just supping with the Devil with an insufficiently long spoon.