soup said:
They are coming from a mindset that says that so long as a girl has vagina, she is sacred.
That is whack.
There are so many girls who put themselves out there as sluts and like to toy with men and play power games. Guys who stand up for these women should be ashamed of themselves.
I wasn't sure whether to bother answering your post as it just seems to ignore everything I've said. I'm well aware these issues exist. But you're not going to change any minds by shaming the minds you aim to change. That's my point.
I'll also add that for many the social impulse was not built on the idea of a vagina being sacred but rather built on the combination of women bearing children and being the weaker sex, thus needing to be protected.
I'm not arguing for it and I'm well aware that many low-lifes take advantage of it - if that was supposed to be instructive for me, I'm afraid it was unnecessary. I've been well aware of these things when I was but a wee lad, well before it was a topic in the manosphere. I became aware of them just by watching the world around me, and I've heard countless men on the streets, from all walks of life, voice the dangers of women who play these games.
basilransom said:
I tried to get a mansion together with some forum members but it didn't quite get off the ground. But one of the appealing things about it was that no matter what was happening I knew all the guys involved were ready to toss a chick out on her ass and would not think twice about it - they were all guys impervious to the white knighting instinct. If we had a party and some chick complains to me that my roommate that i know is cool is being "creepy" and I'd just laugh her in face. She'd cower away with a punctured ego as soon as she'd see there was no burly bouncer to enforce her whims and toss some harmless dude out. She'd have to beat it or shut up.
If more men built these islands of sanity and justice, chicks and white knights would stay on their toes.
I tend to lone wolf it, but I don't think I'd want to hang out in such a place. It seems like what you're looking for isn't a room full of men who act rationally but rather a room full of men who all spurn women and/or think and act just like you.
In my own opinion, a guy who immediately assumes a woman is wrong in a situation is not impervious to white knighting at all. I'd venture that he's just a follower who is afraid to go against his social circle and is quite likely made of the same stuff that makes these hypothetical white knights we talk about so dangerous. Put him in a social circle full of white knights and he'll jump in with that pack.
People need to, first, learn to think. And second, learn to think for themselves. To take every situation on its own merit (while keeping possible pitfalls like "white knighting" AND group-think peer pressure from their friends in mind) instead of hopping on a woman's side just because she's female, hopping on a man's side just because he's arguing with a female, or hopping on their friend's side just because their social circle expects it of them.
Don't get me wrong, I've lived in houses like you're talking about many times and have gladly laughed chicks off that tried to bad-mouth my friends, so I'm not implying anyone should run around playing Captain Save-a-Hoe around or anything. But I've also slammed at least one friend on his dome for bitch-slapping a chick in front of meou have to be careful about grouping up with people who all think exactly like you - that's when you start becoming the bullies and start forgetting to think for yourselves.
Balance is the key, as usual. Not jumping from one extreme just to arm yourself with another.