Why are so many guys on the internet "white knights"?

I have not noticed that going on here on fluther. It is very difficult to tell male/female from names and avatars. Everyone here seems to be an equal opportunity advice giver, wheather good advice or a quick smart a$$ answer.

@chyna you’re right, I don’t see it on fluther. Just about anywhere else on the internet its very noticable.

I’ve been on line since the late 80s, and I have never heard of White Nights before. Maybe I’m just not sensitized to them. I’ll try to pay closer attention, and let you know what I think. Do you see this on Fluther, too?

@pdworkin nope, not on fluther, but go to just about any forum or youtube and you’re bound to see some examples. I think the collective intelligence of fluther is higher than most other places online which I think has something to do with why it isn’t seen here.

It sounds like an interesting phenomenon, and your analysis seems quite plausible. Men with rigid ideas about gender probably feel very uncomfortable in what is becoming a new world.

good thing i am not one of them.
proof:
on airow, their was a middle aged woman.
i nicknamed her “saggytits”

@ragingloli Clever. Charming, too.

I don’t think you are describing white knights. I think you are describing “socially awkward vaguely chivalrous horny people”. White Knights they are not.

But yeah, as an anonymous creepy-place, the Internet is full of socially awkward vaguely chivalrous horny people.

I have run across a few. After being gently chastized many reform their ways. The others who do not are certainly not on my friends list.

A lot of these guys also seem to be either very young and want to seem older, or really old and lonely.

White Knights usually meant Klansmen where I come from. I had a very different answer prepared.
I really have nothing to add here, but if you feel you need to talk this out, sweetheart, I would be happy to listen. Great question, but I would expect nothing less from someone as sexy as you are.

@filmfann man, that almost went over my head, but I got it and you sir are hilarious, and also creepy.

Duh! How can you be so blind?
They’re hoping to get some action!
EVERY guy on the internet knows 4 things about women on the internet:
1) They’re PERFECT matches for the guy, every time.
2) They’re SMOKIN HOT BABES, every time.
3) They’re single and lookin’ to mingle, every time.
4) They live within 5 miles of you, every time.

@Sarcasm
lies
there are only 3 truths regarding wimminz on teh intarwebz
1. All girls are middleaged, obese men.
2. All little girls are undercover FBI agents.
3. I am Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC. Why don’t you have a seat over there?

@Sarcasm Every guy is wrong.
1) Rule 30 of the Rules of the Internet states there are no girls online.
2) High probablity is that the hot girl you’re chatting with is an overweight 50 year old dude.
3) Okay, Ragingloli just stole my Chris Hansen reference.
Damn, got my overweight old man reference too… Guess I should lurve that…

Can’t say I’ve run across those.

I’ve crossed paths with men like that, but they were just dogs, not “knights.”

I too think you have the wrong cliche label there. You’re not describing a “white knight”, but something other cliche.

Since you’re talking about a cliche, there isn’t a real answer to why they do it or whether they’ve “touched a titty” (ahem), except inside the cliche. But there is no universal authority on cliche definitions, so your answer is your answer, and what you will tend to notice.

Glad to see some people know what I’m talking about.

As for the term White Knight, I use it because it describes how I think these people view themselves – a courageous hero protecting maidens fair from critisim and bestowing kind words onto them.

Because every woman loves it when you compliment her no matter what the topic or her realation to you, right guys? right?!

You can go on /b/ for 5 minutes and develop an appreciation of ‘white knights’.

@Sampson Some of whom were misogynists five minutes earlier.

On another website I had my face on my avatar and someone always called me cuttie Judi, but he just seemed like an old man (older than me) and rather paternal.
That’s about all of that behavior I have seen, then again, I AM a little (not a lot) older than most people here.

I think you are focusing only on the positive comments women receive on the internet. In truth, women receive alot of negative comments as well, some men can be condensending, patrionizing, perverted and down right mean when they don’t get what they want.

Pretty looking or regular looking women might receive the help of white knights, but what happens to girls who are deemed as unattractive? Or when a woman stops receiving any attention after she aged, it’s not a pretty transition. The higher the pedestal they put you on, the harder you fall.

Is this a case of the grass is always greener on the other side?

I don’t disagree white knights exist, they certainly do, but its not all chocolate and flower.