Roosh recently posted a great write-up of what it is to be an SJW, the origins of SJWs, and how society supports SJWs- it was posted here previously, but here it is again if you missed it: http://www.rooshv.com/what-is-a-social-justice-warrior-sjw

In it Roosh briefly mentions why men become White Knights and calls back to the usual deisre for sex and acceptance: "They have social anxiety issues and simply want to be part of a co-ed group that increases their access to women...The male sex drive is so strong that a man is willing to throw his entire race and sex under the bus in order to possibly fornicate with a woman." This is the reason most cited on /r/TheRedPill, and in thinking about it, I feel the reasons for White Knighting run deeper than merely a wet dick and a pat on the head.

My first experience with a White Knight was when I was a wee lad of fifteen. Oh awkward, doofy fifteen year old /u/LastRevision; with my Misfits casette in my walkman and my denim jacket. I had just gotten my very first girlfriend, and although I wouldn't really count this girl as my true first girlfriend in the years that followed, it was nice to be able to see a girl on a Saturday night and touch some boobs. Touching boobs... it was all about touching boobs. The year was 1995 and it was a simplier time.

Some things about me around this time: I had never been in a fight outside of playful roughhousing, I wasn't much of a bully outside of standard issue High School dickary, and I had no idea wtf I was doing with a girl. In my mind, you pushed for a hand job maybe around a month, at least two months for a blow job, and sex? That was a discussion to be had after six months. So, like I said, fumbling with a bra on a Saturday night sounded just great.

This girl was the BFF of my friend's girlfriend. One day, after about a week of my "going out" with her (despite seeing her maybe twice), my friend comes up to me at school with a very serious expression on his face and says, "just so you know... if you lay a hand on Mindy... ever.... There's going to be a problem with me and you......"

He seriously said that. Even as a doofy fifteen year old, I wanted to laugh. LAY A HAND ON HER? This girl I'm going to be seeing once a week, in her parents rec room, between 7:00 and 11:00pm? So, during that four hour stretch, instead of watching MTV and making out, I'd have to "show her the back of my hand" in order to "keep that [adolescent] bitch in line."

I said something like "yeah, okay," just to end the awkward-as-fucking-hell interaction as soon as I could and it never came up again.

Now, looking back on this, nearly twenty years later, it's obvious my friend never thought I was going to start beating the shit out of this girl I dated for less than a month (no hand job), and he certainly didn't say this for an audience of gushing school girls around us; we were alone. So, why did my blue pill street soldier friend need to get in my face about STREET JUSTICE? Did busting make him feel good?

White Knighting makes the White Knight feel more like a Man.

This line of thinking is seperate and distinct from being a White Knight to kiss female ass in hopes to get laid; here, White Knighting is an end in itself.

My friend got a variety of feelz from this interaction. For one, he got to feel like he was the defender of women. Women are weak and vulnerable and need a big man White Knight to save them.

On the surface, this is ironic as my friend was fairly effeminate, and certainly very blue pill. White Knighting provides a masculine identity that the Knight is not naturally able to cultivate with other men.

Between the two of us, I was the more naturally alpha. I had my own unique interests, I never cared for the acceptance of the pack, and was independent thinking. I mention this because now it seems obvious that my friend used White Knighting as a cheap means to put himself in a place above me; he had to keep an eye on me, and if I misbehaved there would be trouble. White Knighting is a cheap means for men to feel superior over one another.

The feminist/blue pill/progressive world runs on the delusion that things have not changed very much since 1960.

I was recently debating a feminist friend of mine and I asked her if there could EVER be a newspaper headline reading, "Feminists Celebrate in the Streets: Equality has been Achieved." She admited that was something that will never happen. We must perpetually believe that the majority of men are barbaric brutes who only know rape and hitting... who need to be taught to get consent and that women have a voice. Men who behave are falsely treated like they are the exception to this rule (enlightened), and they get a pat on the head. In the case of the interaction between me and my high school friend, he White Knighted in order to give himself a pat on the head. White Knighting is a cheap means for men to feel intellectually superior and socially advanced.