No More White Knighting, Please.

CL's guest post at Sunshine Mary's blog, Why White Knights Are Worse Than Feminists

okrahead:

White Knight motivations I have observed (and some of which I engaged in before I learned better).
1) Thinking that if you let her cry on your shoulder eventually she will let you in her pants. In retrospect this is so pathetic I want to vomit.
2) Genuinely believing what you are taught in school and church, namely that women are innocent victims of predatory men, and that they need a “knight in shining armor” to save them from the bad guys they have between their legs. The women in question are, of course, entirely without responsibility for the bad boys being between their legs. Don’t ask why, it doesn’t really matter.
3) As a corollary to number 2, being taught by church/school/family that a “real man” takes care of women, even when the women in question created their own problems, and only want someone else to take the responsibility of their actions on their behalf.
4) As a corollary to number 3, failing to realize that the distressed damsel does NOT want to be rescued… She just wants somebody to pay the bills for her until the next hot bad boy comes along.
5) Actually believing that if you show her what a truly sensitive and caring guy you really are, and how you will always be there for her, she will someday realize that you are the one. And then let you into her panties. Because that’s how it works out in all the chick flicks, and that’s what all these women are telling you they “really want.”
6) As a corollary to number 5, believing what women tell you they want rather than actually believing what you see them doing with your own lying eyes. Because obviously women never lie, and your eyes deceive you all the time. Because if that’s not the way it is, you’ve been playing YOURSELF for a chump all along…. and you just can’t bear to admit that yet, now can you?
7) Desperately wanting approval from your family/church/female friends so badly that you voluntarily cover your own eyes to avoid seeing the truth. Because if you see the truth then you realize that you live in a fallen and sinful world, and women are just as guilty and depraved as men, and so…..