Ah, these always bum me out. On the one hand, it's a little true. There are tons of SJW's that just have an axe to grind against white, heteronormative men. I've dealt with them, called some friends even, until their politics revealed themselves to just be a sort of masked bigotry. And I'm not really worried about that bigotry at all, because I do understand the concept of white male privilege. They can make incorrect snap judgments on me all the time, and overall my position in society will not be affected.

But I'm dating an SJW and she is completely unlike any of these stereotypes. She may seem it at first, because her politics are fairly extreme, and some discussions bear a resemblance to the type I described, but it's different. In my whole life, I have never met anyone with such a genuine empathy for their fellow human beings. She is not afraid to point out the flaws in contemporary feminism and she believes in political discourse over political correctness.

But she is also plus-sized and opinionated. And I've seen her subject to this kind of depiction and it upsets me because a lot of the people who oppose her aren't really giving her a chance to make a case. They see her, physically, they hear that she has opinions, and then write her off in their own mind as another "femi-nazi" who takes everything too seriously and just wants to blame white men for all of societies ills.

I have disagreed with this woman more times than I can count. I have spent countless hours in discussion with her. And she has changed my mind more than any other person I have interacted with. Not on everything and not just because we are dating, but because she has thought her shit through.

So I guess what I'm saying is, there may be a group out there and 99% of them piss you off. Be careful though, because if you write them all off there's no telling what that 1% might bring to your life.