Knights In Shining Armour

This is my second attempt at writing a blog post today. The first was quite feminist-y and seeing as I wouldn’t call myself one, about halfway through I wondered to myself if I am just virtue signalling, trying to be a knight in shining armour, the perennial ally, the guy who isn’t like all the others.

Perhaps it is solely down to intention - my motivations for the now-axed post may have been impure, and had I really written from a place of genuine desire for the betterment of women’s treatment in society, maybe I wouldn’t have felt a little nauseous come the final paragraph.

At least part of me genuinely does want gender equality in our society. Many of my closest friends are women, and some of my greatest inspirations come from said women around me. I also feel like we don’t really have the collective energy to spend on fixing these kinds of social issues, and that we face much more pressing problems as a society that we need to be united in dealing with now. So maybe I’m not a knight in shining armour. Just a squire. Or perhaps a noble steed.

With that being said, what is the correct course of action? Maybe it is to do smaller, quieter things. To be mindful of the way I talk to and about women, to re-examine my own beliefs and biases, to try to do things better myself in the day to day, and see if others follow. That seems slow though, maybe bigger, bolder action is necessary, and seeing as I am by and large a little bitch coward, writing this blog is about as big and bold as I get. But it feels diffifcult to do that in the right way, so it’s difficult, so I feel uncomfortable and unsure doing it…

Then again, maybe I should stop whining as per, and remember that once again, I am not the victim.