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Old 11-03-2014, 06:51 PM   #489
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
\As for the "white knight" thing, it's a term often used by MRAs and other sexists to denigrate and trivialize the opinions of men who support various women's or feminist causes by insinuating such support is secretly a ploy to get laid, which is a pretty sexist opinion to hold when you consider it. I don't think that's what you were implying, but to say that defending or aligning oneself with the causes of women, minorities, etc., is due to "delusions of grandeur" is in somewhat of the same cynical vein as the way in which the MRAs use the term.
Actually, MRA's and their ilk have co-opted the term "White Knight" into what you (and PsYcNeT) think it means, when, in it's original form/usage, it means exactly what Locke defined it as.
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