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The point about how not everyone can hold the high moral ground relative to everyone else is well made though, and the Nirvana analogy is perfect.
In particular, pick one that's as close to actual combat as possible. MMA is great, but perhaps too intense. I've started training brazilian jiu jitsu and can't recommend it enough. Something about fighting for your life against someone who could easily put you to sleep/manhandle you that's therapeutic.
Sam Harris blogged about it here: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-pleasures-of-drowning
I wish you all the luck in the world in getting past this.
Thankyou for putting into coherent thought what I was never able to - a lot of these arguments you hear from the 'leg up for women in tech' crowd are just that - unfalsifiable. They can never be wrong.