Why Good Women Can't Get Good Men (Sinfest Webcomic)

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http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=938

Go forward from here until you reach #966 (that's 29 screens!) The relevant comics are titled "Call Me."

Or just go here: http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=966

Actually, what I primarily had in mind was #950 through #963 (when Criminy goes on a date with Amber.)

I don't get it.
What do you mean by the title?
Why Good Women Can't Get Good Men

#956 and #957: Amber is referring to sex. Criminy doesn't get the sexual reference. (and many WPers won't either.)

#961: Amber is mentioning that she's "lucky" enough to have the place to herself, assuming Criminy gets the sexual reference. But he doesn't. He doesn't realize that Amber wants some!!

#962: Criminy didn't actually intend to reject Amber. He just thinks far, far, far less is on the table than Amber really wants, and in #963 Amber clearly takes it as rejection.

Here's the thing: the likes of Slick (that pointy-haired dude who's always trying to get it on with Monique) are, unfortunately, most of the attention that attractive women get. Dudes who just want to get in their pants. But Criminy had real interests and treated Amber like a human being (even if he was nervous and let the conversation pause a lot), and so Amber actually wanted to have sex with him, but Criminy did not even get the sexual references that would have been glaringly obvious to Slick (and were fairly so to me.)

This is why good women can't get good men: the bad ones will come on to you, and the good ones will be too nervous or clueless to ask for anything at all, even if they like you.

Actually he freaks out at the thought of holding hands with her which means he is not READY himself to have sex with Amber. So he did reject her, without realising.

....Because good women finish last?

Oh, ok, I get it lol.

I dunno if I'm a "good man" but most of the time I'm definitely clueless to female come-ons.

I understood she meant sex. There's so many code words for it though. Is it possible a girl might say physical and not mean sex?
Either way I don't want sex on the first date and I don't know if I'd be interested in a gal who does.

I know when I want valuable life lessons, I turn to badly drawn webcomics.

this is why i will die alone

We all die alone, really.

If I have to die - which I do, at some point - I hope it's alone. I think I'd find it awkward to die in front of others.

This sort of thing:

really, really needs stamping out. There are loads of good men who make romantic moves. I can go for a walk and see them right now. Boyfriends and husbands who are perfectly decent, upstanding, supportive sorts. It just so happens they don't have an impairment that makes ambiguous social contact such as flirting difficult for them.

There are plenty of bad ones who don't or can't - thank God (until they go on their rampages). There are loads of good women who go alone year after year. And so on.

You equate being an awkward, socially inept man with being 'good'. You equate being an attractive woman with being 'good'. I can't believe I have to point out that there is no necessary or causal link in either of these cases.

And I speak as someone who is awkward and socially inept. I have done some good things. I've also done some incredibly shoddy things. The idea that my not recognising a come-on somehow makes me 'good' is utter horses**t.

(And yes, I know it's old, but it's also, sadly, a constant.)