Do you feel (new) Atheist culture?

[Alex K]

To me, New Atheism is a combination of the following: the increased media presence of a certain crop of atheist spokespersons (especially Dawkins and Hitchens, Harris and Dennett to a smaller extent), a newly found unapologetic display of one's atheism, and a habitual reference to and reverence towards an idealized concept of "science" as the remedy against the oppression dealt out by religion.

That's close to what I've gathered it meant, except for the fact that many people appear to use the term "new atheist" as a pejorative as if it comes with the connotations of being the angry, foaming-mouth type.   Do you think this is just a reaction of frustration by the religious, or is there something legitimate to the claim that atheists that identify with the four horsemen tend to be more hostile?

I guess maybe not as a rule, but there is that personality type who will latch onto hero figures and then ferociously and irrationally defend them against all criticism, and we've probably all seen enough of that online. Dawkins himself appears to me often more heartless than I would consider myself when dealing with believers. In his judgement of people, it seems to me that he leaves little room for the human factor. People who also use his less agreeable traits as an inspiration for their activism will probably tend to come across as hostile.