I fear I've become inadvertently a part of a terrible movement.
The male movement or whatever you'd like to call it was very popular on this site for a while and then died down less from a barrage of insults towards all women and more to a constant unending discussion on why women need to stop complaining about sexism and how it's not that great to be a male.
But what's at the heart of this movement, this path is what's most dissapointing to me. See, there are some very smart and clever guys on here and I think they've intellectualized a very primal need. A lot just want to have sex with a lot of girls.
It's that simple. It's that basic. It doesn't require analysis. It's just "hey I'm fairly obsessed with having sex with girls so whether or not I'm having sex with lots of girls I neccessarily need to dehumanize them for this purpose." Of course, it's not internalized like this but what else could it be? Think about it. These guys hate on any girl with opinions, any girl who doesn't think sex is a big deal, or really any girl who doesn't submit to men. They may say they like girls but if you only like submissive girls one would have to imagine the majority of women (those who are not fully submissive) you dislike and therefore in general you hate girls.
I know it's a lot to say but I feel it needs to be said. There needs to be a wake up. These guys don't care about girls. They don't see them as people. Yes, they're aware that they're human beings, but all they really want out of their existence is to **** them. I'm sorry to be crass about it but that's the heart of the matter.
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Now, to the point of the Take. To be a "white knight" is basically a guy who likes to defend either a single girl or all woman against a single guy or all men for no other reason except that he hopes it will bring him favor from that gender and/or he believes that gender is superior to his own.
When I say "white knighting" I mean to knight/label someone a "white knight." On the one hand, I get it. Girls can be rough and guys need to stick together. The problem is that I think it's used as a shield to defend behavior that is ultimately again only about having sex with girls.
Examples:
A guy goes around the party asking every girl to have sex. One guy tells him to leave because he's being embarrassing and making the girls uncomfortable. He calls that guy a "white knight."
A guy says that he's over the phase in his life where all he wants to have as much with as many girls as possible. Other guys call him whipped or a white knight because he acts like hooking up with girls is childish.
A guy tells a SINGLE GIRL (not a taken girl) that she should be with a guy that respects her. He's considered a white knight.
A guy is progressively female rights and believes there's still more work to be done to eradicate sexism in the work place. He also doesn't buy the fact that a large percentage of rape accusations are made up to destroy the reputation of the guy. He is a white knight.
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Again, the problem is with how incredibly black and white this thinking is and it has to be since it's propping up a very simple goal: justifying having sex with as many girls as possible as the only goal that really matters. A guy can do/believe all the above things and STILL call girls out on their crap, still stand up for the guy when the guy is in the right and still expect women to act a certain way when he's around them. But calling him a white knight basically forces him through shame into the system. The system is again all about sex.
The system, which probably deserves its own take, is manifested at the club at parties in pop culture basically where women are always always always connected and given purpose by how great sex they would be. It's why women seem to have all the power and also none of the power at all. A girl can get in a miniskirt and dominate a male doctor. the top guys at the club don't usually even do anything or have impressive lives they just "bring the girls" and ironically they can only bring the girls because girls want to use them to get into the clubs.
Anyway, this is ranting out of control but basically guys if you get called a white knight just realize that guy calling you that probably only sees women as objects and that's not a mindset that ever works out in the long run despite the fact that it seems on the surface to be more masculine.
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