For white knights, it is quite an irony the way they do behave. I mean, following the rhetoric that they "protect women's rights and dignity", it is quite confusing not to realise how much in denial they really are. Though from a psychological point of view, their behavior makes sense in fact, they are coping!
A bad and possibly unproductive type of cope? Maybe... maybe, but a cope nonetheless. In hopes that apparently "good" personality traits will excuse their inability to engage in degenerate behaviour themselves, they live in a world of intoxicating innocence.
If they were truly slaying I bet that they wouldn't give one single fuck about how women are treated or how to "muh, respect" them...