I am not a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere.

[andromeda3116]

I've seen this old rant before, mostly in the context of male friends posting it or linking it and proclaiming "hell yeah, preach it!" or whatever.  And I know that others have bitched about it before, but this is the Ode to the Nice Guys, and this more or less lists out every single problem with Nice Guys in an attempt to proclaim their

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[jennibare]

Amen, sister! The whole "nice guy" thing annoys the crap out of me. Yes I'd rather be with an asshole just because at least he's not a doormat. My husband is the "nice guy" but the difference between him and these losers is that he's upfront about what he wants while holding open doors (since when is that a negative. I've always considered it a common courtesy. Of course as a female, I'm an illogical bitch so what do I know right?), pausing Halo to listen to be bitch, etc etc etc. It's a two way street as any healthy relationship (romantic, friends, or otherwise) should be. So stop being a whiny bitch, grow some balls, and tell that chick you like that you want her. If she says no, fine move on there's plenty of other women out there. If she says "yes, what took you so long idiot" then congratulations. Welcome to reality.

Granted reading points 1 and 2 made me think of a gay friend of mine back in high school. Is that wrong?

[feral_shrew]

Two articles:
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phi/114087824.html

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phi/114087824.html

And my personal experience:
Of all of the guys that I've dated, I actually was happiest while dating the manipulative jerkwad that was having sex with somebody else. He sent me flowers once, he could talk about anything (gross medical cases he'd seen to poetry) with passion, he could be wrong, he could let me win when I made the better point, and he told me I was beautiful.

I'd date him again before I got involved with any of the passive-aggressive "nice" guys that made me feel like I was always doing something wrong, or like I had to perpetually defend my entire gender to be with them.

[jade_sabre_301]

READ BOOKES THREE AND SIX OF THE FAERIE QUEENE AND BE DONE WITH IT because clearly everyone in the world is going to have the patience to get into Spenser and learn amazing life lessons from him.

/sadface forever

IN MORE SERIOUS well no, I'm just going to be like, IT'S ALL PETRARCH'S FAULT, well it's been going on longer but he's the one who started it, and this is totally in his vein, and one of the awesome things about Romeo and Juliet is that Shakespeare deliberately bucks Petrarchan conventions (rather like Spenser with the almost-rape of...Selena? Maybe? in Booke 6) and so yes their relationship is crazy but it's also founded on AWESOME. (Mainly the awesome that is Juliet balancing out the ridonk that is Romeo.)

anyway anyway "nice" guys like Aang totally suck, the end.

[phoenixblaze]

It's funny, I frequently sympathized with the "nice guys" because it sucked for them, then they spazzed when I told them I didn't have any feelings towards them. What, just because you're sweet to me and I acknowledge that, I'm supposed to suddenly go out with you?

When Bill and I were broken up for a month and a half at the beginning of this year, I was interested in a mutual friend of ours, who to me was one of those nice guys, then behind my back was telling everyone I was his girlfriend when I agreed to a casual first date and opted not to tell Bill. Bill heard it through the grapevine and *I* had to be upfront to him about everything when this other guy lied and said that I asked him out when really he had asked me out. Yeah, that's exactly why nice guys suck.