Why men should stop being white knights

A White knight is probably one of the worst types of men. Black Coffee explains why.

Black Coffee
4 min readSep 14, 2021

White knight syndrome characterizes many people who grew up neglected. Their need to save others is almost compulsive, although they don't always do it in the most efficient way.
https://exploringyourmind.com/white-knight-syndrome-and-saviors/

A "white knight" is a man you find all over the Internet on forums, groups, YouTube videos and blogs.
A white knight’s sole purpose in life is to prove he’s different from other man preferably so called "toxic" men.

A "white knight" is that guy waiting for a man to say something or do something deemed "toxic" by women so he can jump in, and save the day.

It's in this way he can show he's that man who is different from the rest. The "white knight" is the soft, sensitive, emphatic, and caring man
who sits and listens to women complain for hours about their man in the hopes that they will see how different he is from them and date him.

Many "white knights" were raised by single mothers who had bad experiences with men and grew up listening to their mother or aunts complaining about how bad men were, by showing he was…

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