I suspect that there's a growing realisation for some strident people, given recent cases, that sunlight is not as helpful to them as they may have thought 
Sometimes the more you shout, the more people sit up, listen, read, understand and question your motives, rather than just cheer you on unthinkingly.
When you've been living in a bubble, (excluding other people's perspectives by not listening to, and literally blocking, their point of view) you may believe your rationale is beyond reproach.
Until you take your points outside of your bubble. And see that other people calmly, but rationally, disagree. Without hate. Without trying to 'erase you'. And other people hear them, as well as your shouting.
And to Glinner - gender-stereotypical-free 
and 
to you and those around you who will also have been caused stress by the situation that this person put you in.