Back in 2011, I too was guilty of being one, correcting anons on the internet by starting with a the dreadful 'akshully', telling my god fearing grandmother that there is no afterlife at a Christmas family gathering, arguing for reason and logic using arguments I saw on the latest south park episode.
During college I was part of a 'new atheist' debate club, where more than anything else we emulated Christopher Hitches, trying to speak with the same deep posh drawl, chugging down liquor and cigs in hope that it would lower our wimpy high-pitched voices. But what I also noticed, and this was probably for the first time in my life, is that the young atheist men I hung out with in the after hours were fat and unattractive, all of them. Back then, I didn't saw them as that ugly, just bohemian.
But looking at it now, retroactively, there were no guys from the sports team reading The God Delusion and making arguments in favor of abortion. The feminist ally back then was the pimple ridden debate enthusiast, taking on bronze age myths and superstition to fight bigotry and oppression.
When Elevatorgate happened I understood why it enraged so many 'new atheists'. It reminded them of a all too familiar scenario involving rejection. The brutal realization that that purple haired qurky atheist girl you had a crush on the whole semester, and were willing to kill God for, still didn't want to fuck you.
During college I was part of a 'new atheist' debate club, where more than anything else we emulated Christopher Hitches, trying to speak with the same deep posh drawl, chugging down liquor and cigs in hope that it would lower our wimpy high-pitched voices. But what I also noticed, and this was probably for the first time in my life, is that the young atheist men I hung out with in the after hours were fat and unattractive, all of them. Back then, I didn't saw them as that ugly, just bohemian.
But looking at it now, retroactively, there were no guys from the sports team reading The God Delusion and making arguments in favor of abortion. The feminist ally back then was the pimple ridden debate enthusiast, taking on bronze age myths and superstition to fight bigotry and oppression.
When Elevatorgate happened I understood why it enraged so many 'new atheists'. It reminded them of a all too familiar scenario involving rejection. The brutal realization that that purple haired qurky atheist girl you had a crush on the whole semester, and were willing to kill God for, still didn't want to fuck you.
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