Page 1 of 3 [ 47 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next

Jamesy
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 24 Oct 2008
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Posts: 8,333
Location: Near London United Kingdom

06 Jun 2016, 1:47 pm

When people say girls don't to go for nice guys...... Do you agree with me it's the 'fake nice' guys that women dislike because can see right through them?

That's why I always it's best to be your genuine self esspecially when it comes to females. I think overall women perhaps are better judges of character.



kraftiekortie
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Feb 2014
Gender: Male
Posts: 87,510
Location: Queens, NYC

06 Jun 2016, 1:50 pm

I think it's best to "put your best foot forward" while revealing your "true self." Be a proper gentleman.

To be a "Nice Guy" (trademark) is to not be appealing to women.



Alliekit
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Mar 2016
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,182
Location: England

06 Jun 2016, 2:36 pm

Jamesy wrote:
When people say girls don't to go for nice guys...... Do you agree with me it's the 'fake nice' guys that women dislike because can see right through them?


I definitely agree woth you here. I am certainly more attracted to genuinely nice guys rather then not very nice people



Jamesy
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 24 Oct 2008
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Posts: 8,333
Location: Near London United Kingdom

06 Jun 2016, 3:11 pm

Alliekit wrote:
Jamesy wrote:
When people say girls don't to go for nice guys...... Do you agree with me it's the 'fake nice' guys that women dislike because can see right through them?


I definitely agree woth you here. I am certainly more attracted to genuinely nice guys rather then not very nice people




Better to be not nice but 'genuine' than nice but fake :)



Some girls might view phony nice guys as rapists



kraftiekortie
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Feb 2014
Gender: Male
Posts: 87,510
Location: Queens, NYC

06 Jun 2016, 4:20 pm

It's better to be nice, yet genuine than nasty, yet genuine.

That is unless you want a relationship based on nastiness.



Jamesy
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 24 Oct 2008
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Posts: 8,333
Location: Near London United Kingdom

06 Jun 2016, 5:14 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
It's better to be nice, yet genuine than nasty, yet genuine.

That is unless you want a relationship based on nastiness.




But sometimes being nice is just not in my nature



kraftiekortie
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Feb 2014
Gender: Male
Posts: 87,510
Location: Queens, NYC

06 Jun 2016, 5:16 pm

Well, then. You'll have to suffer whatever consequences befall you should you be nasty.

I mean...you don't to be utterly nice---but at least you could be decent.



Alliekit
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Mar 2016
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,182
Location: England

06 Jun 2016, 5:48 pm

Jamesy wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
It's better to be nice, yet genuine than nasty, yet genuine.

That is unless you want a relationship based on nastiness.




But sometimes being nice is just not in my nature


There is a difference between just being not nice (like just being at like 0 niceness) and being nasty (minus niceness). Bwing nasty is the unattractive one.

No one expects you to be happy and nice all the time. Sometimes your going to be grumpy, sometimes your gunna be fed up with people. As long as you are fundamentally a nice person to be around there is not problem :)



nick007
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 27,593
Location: was Louisiana but now Vermont in capitalistic police state called USA

06 Jun 2016, 7:34 pm

I was nice to women because I cared about them as friends & I didn't like them romantically till we were friends a while. 1ce I liked them romantically, it became harder for me to support them when they used me to complain to about guys they were with or liked who were bad for & to them. No women ever liked me romantically back except for my 1st girlfriend who I was friends with online.


_________________
"I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem!"
~King Of The Hill


"Hear all, trust nothing"
~Ferengi Rule Of Acquisition #190
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ru ... cquisition


morimori
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse

Joined: 7 May 2016
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Posts: 32

06 Jun 2016, 8:28 pm

The guys that complain that women don't like "nice guys", more often than not, aren't very nice themselves.

If a person starts making that complaint, run. Just run.



seaweed
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 18 Sep 2015
Age: 29
Posts: 1,380
Location: underwater

06 Jun 2016, 8:54 pm

ughhh yes.

like this guy the other day...he kept saying that he was just being friendly but he was also calling me things like "beautiful" and "sexy" and "cute" despite me being very clear that i'm not okay with it. after reiterating myself for the fifth time, he said "well it's true" but also that he was sorry and respected that because he's "a nice guy", and again, he's just "being friendly".

i don't think an actual nice guy would be so disrespectful as to ignore my request five times, or believe that "complimenting" me on my looks is friendly. also, he tried to make me feel bad (read: manipulate me) about not going to his house party and hanging out with him and all the people there who i've never even met. in addition to flatly rejecting his invitation, i also told him that i was on painkillers from a recent wisdom tooth extraction and was not in any condition to "hang out", to which he responded, "that's the best time to hang out". ugh.

and when i don't respond to him he gets sh***y like, "what, you not gonna talk to me?" like somehow he can't see how ridiculous he's acting and actually thinks he's being nice???



Albertog
Hummingbird
Hummingbird

Joined: 19 May 2016
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Posts: 21
Location: Bangladesh

06 Jun 2016, 9:13 pm

Different men different choices. So not all men like nice people rather than nice guy.



The Grand Inquisitor
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 9 Aug 2015
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,764

06 Jun 2016, 11:26 pm

I think it's more a case of the so-called 'nice guys' having no other title to hinge upon, so they categorise themselves as nice (even if they're not actually nice). As a result, the term has kinda become synonymous with boring guys who don't really have much to offer.

I think most women of course want to be treated respectfully by their man, but I don't think they want to be worshipped, like these supposed nice guys seem to think.



The_Face_of_Boo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 16 Jun 2010
Age: 42
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 33,031
Location: Beirut, Lebanon.

09 Jun 2016, 1:18 am

WP's Nice Guys threads count: 1000001.

You ruined it, OP.



Outrider
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 15 Feb 2014
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,007
Location: Australia

09 Jun 2016, 3:12 am

Most things in life are achieved through hard work and effort.

Nice guys illogically mistake romantic relationships as working this way as well, when love and dating is actually completely and totally random! (and not in a good way).

They falsely believe you get out what you put in, you reap what you sow, etc.

They believe putting in the effort should see results.

They are simply frustrated when they don't see the results they were aiming for.

Some nice guys are manipulative ar55høles, but some are genuinely trying to be a 'nice guy' and trying their best but feel frustrated they aren't finding success when it seems plenty of men who are a55høles are.

I definitely believe this to be true.

Unfortunately, dating seems so random that effort means nothing.

You can improve yourself and this may help your chances slighly, but there are no guarantees.

There's plenty of kind, hardworking, social, friendly, confident, smart, fit, healthy people who are chronically single and never had a relationship, there's plenty of rude, selfish, greedy, unconfident/low-self-esteem, out-of-shape, uninteresting people who find successful relationship after successful relationship.

Nice guys identify with the label as they believe effort should bring reward, and so by associating themselves with a good person, they believe a good person is more likely than a bad person to find dating success, when this is not actually true at all whatsoever in any possible way at all, and never is, was or ever will be.

All of this lack of dating success and frustration with the realization their entire purpose to self-improve has been worthless and wrong, will make them feel a very strong Cognitive Dissonance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

So, consistently observing 'bad' people find much relationship success while they, a 'good' person remains alone, makes them angry that being a 'good' person doesn't work.

They start to think women do like a55høles for this very reason, which I believe has some truth to it, specifically a55høle women can like a55høle men.

Also, by constantly being told by society just how awful, boring, unattractive, rude, aggressive, manipulative, etc. they are, they eventually become the very thing they didn't like being called.

This happened to me in a similar way. I was a good kid bullied in 1st-3rd grade by both teachers and students, so all that built up hate and aggression meant I turned into the bully in 4th grade.

And it was only made worse and further ignited when people decide I was 'just an a55høle all along' when I only became this was slowly overtime.

This is what 'nice guys' tend to be.

Anyway, I am not a 'nice guy' myself, I'm an anti-hero at best and neutral, I've always identified as the exact middle of the 'good vs. evil' spectrum, but I may be mistaken as one even if I'm just being genuinely 'nice'.

I defend them simply because, to an extent, I can understand these strange creatures, but otherwise a lot of their train of thought has me confused, like why they'd naively think for a second effort in dating = reward in dating.

At best they are misguided everymen, at worst, possible creep who wants to drunk r*pe her in disguise. But that's a big gap.



underwater
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 10 Sep 2015
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,904
Location: Hibernating

09 Jun 2016, 4:02 am

I remember reading one of those "nice guys" complaints in the newspaper, written by some teenager who was working hard on getting laid.

He got a great answer back from a self-styled "as*hole", who told him "Women are not vending machines where you put in nice acts and sex falls out." What a great answer, and pretty much what Outrider has observed. Women can smell it a mile off.

Guys need to find someone who matches them, not try to get a woman to give them gratitude sex - that's treating her like a prostitute.


_________________
I sometimes leave conversations and return after a long time. I am sorry about it, but I need a lot of time to think about it when I am not sure how I feel.