I was around the online spaces of New Atheism from about 2010 to its decline. It reminded me so much of a high school boy's locker room.
The subculture was permeated with "my intellect is bigger than your intellect" male ego stroking. Most of the exchanges consisted of verbal battles that were basically adolescent male insult matches with a thin veneer of intellectualism slathered on top.
It was a community rife with toxic masculinity that ran on a discourse dominated by white men.
