My take on That Comic (XKCD)
Here's the thing that I feel like most people aren't considering in their discussion of the comic: the dude cannot shoulder 100% of the blame. In fact, while I agree wholeheartedly with rejections of the whole bogus "Nice Guy" bullshit--having been subject to it myself more than once--I feel like the situation that this comic describes is one where blame should be pretty much equally shared.
The guy didn't buy her off her father or anything. She got into the relationship of her own free will. Women have free will--that's what the Nice Guys want to undermine, with their confident assurance that if women just Knew Better they'd get laid constantly.
If you settle, you settle. It's not the fault of the person for whom you settled.
The guy didn't buy her off her father or anything. She got into the relationship of her own free will. Women have free will--that's what the Nice Guys want to undermine, with their confident assurance that if women just Knew Better they'd get laid constantly.
If you settle, you settle. It's not the fault of the person for whom you settled.