This is an interesting article on how the New atheist movement, originally trolling evangelicalism, was hijacked by the alt right and "rationalist" libertarians. This part really stuck out:
https://thebaffler.com/latest/new-atheisms-idiot-heirs-nichols
Be a smug little shit to me if old.
Once Bush left office, the promoters of intelligent design curricula retreated from the public sphere, and millennials asserted themselves as the least religious generation to date; the group that had coalesced around the practice logically refuting creationists needed new targets. One of the targets they chose was women. Militant atheism had always been male-dominated, but it took several years and a sea change in American politics for the sexism within its ranks to fully bloom. In 2011, skeptic blogger Rebecca Watson described in a YouTube video how a male fellow attendee of an atheist conference had followed her into an elevator at 4 a.m. in order to ask her on a datebehavior that, understandably, made her uncomfortable. The community erupted into what was later remembered as Elevatorgate. A forum was created to harass Watson, and Richard Dawkins himself wrote a comment telling her to stop whining because she had it better than victims of honor killings and female genital mutilation.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/new-atheisms-idiot-heirs-nichols
Be a smug little shit to me if old.