What happened to good old-fashioned debate.

The ugly truth is, you don't have much to contribute to most conversations. Few strangers, if any, would be enriched by a debate with you on any subject. Biologists don't need to know what you think about evolution, physicists don't need to know your opinion of the many-worlds interpretation, and feminists don't need to know your feelings on street harassment. No one is missing out on any enlightenment by choosing not to engage with you. As you secretly suspect, you don't really bring much to the discussion table, and it doesn't take long for most non-ignorant people to figure that out.

Minority.

It's often suggested that there's a positive correlation between atheism and intelligence, and fucking hell don't we atheists know it. Even those of us who are atheists because we didn't grow up in terribly religious families and never had much encouragement or reason to be religious in the first place aren't giving up our automatic smartypants points. As atheists, we also get to be an oppressed minority, so we get bonus victim points, and we don't have to feel bad when those feminazi bitches start yammering to us about privilege. After all, we totally think women should have rights, starting with the right to suck our cocks and scrub our floors. Hey, where are you going? Jesus, we were kidding.

When you have it, and when you don't.

I've started occasionally calling people out on Facebook for sexism. If they're good friends, I'll say something in a calculatedly nonthreatening, jokey way, and if they're not good friends I'll just unsubscribe from them or unfriend them depending on the severity. I'm sick of having sexist bullshit weigh on my mind all the time. I'm sick of having to justify my annoyance to myself when there are a million things I'd rather be using that mental energy for. I'm ready to stop caring what anyone thinks and start kicking it the fuck out of my space. But it gets me thinking.