What The Fuck, "Nice Guys"? |
This is a blog, dedicated to posting examples of "Nice Guys". "Nice Guys" are people who suffer from "Nice Guy Syndrome". It is a debilitating condition where the sufferer believes that they are the nicest, sweetest, most sensitive guy out there, and the reason the sufferer is single is because "girls only want to date jerks". Because it totally works like that, you're so right. |
“…every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.
Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.” - David Wong
The first several entries of this article are excellent examples of society’s views about women (and the way they are objectified). However, the last two are a bit annoying, and very heavy on the “Men are animals, we think with our dicks and can’t control ourselves” idea, so it may be best to stop reading after the first page…
My thoughts exactly. He makes some very good point on how...our society (“there
wait…what? who are these men? what?
yeah, i read the first few ones and was like “those are pretty good” but then i read the last couple and was like “uhhh...
At first I thought, I couldn’t read this because...blatant sexualization of females...
Just finished reading this Jayda. That was actually pretty enlightening. Everything makes a little more sense now. It...
Excellent article....drive, please don’t read...because...
I love this article...it makes me sad that so many people dont get it. For course it is...
Trying not to be powerless… >.
item 3 also got into some really awful essentialist bullshit, but the author was pretty careful