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- Jul 3, 2021
White knights are often creeps, either to adult women or children. I don’t think it’s a matter of pretending to hate what they like, it’s rather a fixation on what they desire. In their twisted, sicko minds, they become so fixated on women and/or children that they dehumanize them. White knighting is a symptom of dehumanization. Hatred can be another symptom. It depends on many psychological factors. There are patterns, but it’s not a single template.I’m not big on the “arachnophobes want to fuck spiders” thing, and think lolicon is creepy (give me boobies or give me death!), but there is this weird tendency for the people that are so loudly against fanservice from even late teen anime characters to be real-life creeps with pedophilic tendencies. Don’t ask me why, but it just happens that way.
This is kind of gay but The Silence of the Lambs is pretty much the perfect film for showing how various men, from literal psychos to typical ‘old guy who hits on you,’ ultimately end up dehumanizing women (to varying degrees) and what behaviors come out of that.

