The other day I was thinking back to the days of gamergate. In how suddenly a hobby and community I loved and always had considered left leaning since the days of Atari. Very quickly adopted and accepted toxic masculinity and the alt right.
and how they were quick to name anyone who wasn’t on their side white knights but in a derogatory way.
As a 47 year old white male, I couldn’t be happier to be a white knight. And I’ve been thinking if a website of volunteers across the country could work. who could assemble to help those in distress, be it immigrants, women, trans at
Ice shows up and someone calls out for help, we could show up to document what ice does. A woman doesn’t feel safe at a bar or restaurant, puts location out dudes show up to make sure she gets home safe. Idk probably a dumb idea but it’s been eating at me.
In the 80s and 90s we always called our friends gay but to me it was just friendly ribbing.
One ex friend we did beat the fuck out of for hitting his girlfriend.