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An Ode To The "Nice Guys." Everyone should read...
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| TrAnCe CoNtRoL |
taken from http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~jenf/writing/rant04.html
This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what s guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style.
This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewildered female friends back from parties and never take advantage once they’re at her door, for the guys who accompany girls to bars as buffers against the rest of the creepy male population, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for compliments but give them out anyway, for the guys who always play by the rules in a game where the rules favor cheaters, for the guys who are accredited as boyfriend material but somehow don’t end up being boyfriends, for all the nice guys who are overlooked, underestimated, and unappreciated, for all the nice guys who are manipulated, misled, and unjustly abandoned, this is for you.
This is for that time she left 40 urgent messages on your cell phone, and when you called her back, she spent three hours painstakingly dissecting two sentences her boyfriend said to her over dinner. And even though you thought her boyfriend was a chump and a jerk, you assured her that it was all ok and she shouldn’t worry about it. This is for that time she interrupted the best killing spree you’d ever orchestrated in GTA3 to rant about a rumor that romantically linked her and the guy she thinks is the most repulsive person in the world. And even though you thought it was immature and you had nothing against the guy, you paused the game for two hours and helped her concoct a counter-rumor to spread around the floor. This is also for that time she didn’t have a date, so after numerous vows that there was nothing “serious” between the two of you, she dragged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was awful, and she flirted shamelessly with you, justifying each fit of reckless teasing by announcing to everyone: “oh, but we’re just friends!” And even though you were invited purely as a symbolic warm body for her ego, you went anyways. Because you’re nice like that.
The nice guys don’t often get credit where credit is due. And perhaps more disturbing, the nice guys don’t seem to get laid as often as they should. And I wish I could logically explain this trend, but I can’t. From what I have observed on campus and what I have learned from talking to friends at other schools and in the workplace, the only conclusion I can form is that many girls are just illogical, manipulative bitches. Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when presented with such a specimen, they say irrational, confusing things such as “oh, he’s too nice to date” or “he would be a good boyfriend but he’s not for me” or “he already puts up with so much from me, I couldn’t possibly ask him out!” or the most frustrating of all: “no, it would ruin our friendship.” Yet, they continue to lament the lack of datable men in the world, and they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sympathize and apologize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are beyond my ability to fathom. I can’t figure out why the connection breaks down between what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (I’m going to sleep with this complete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phenomenon doesn’t last forever. There are definitely many girls who grow out of that train of thought and realize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for granted. The tricky part is finding those girls, and even trickier, finding the ones that are single.
So, until those girls are found, I propose a toast to all the nice guys. You know who you are, and I know you’re sick of hearing yourself described as ubiquitously nice. But the truth of the matter is, the world needs your patience in the department store, your holding open of doors, your party escorting services, your propensity to be a sucker for a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tolerate, for all the situations where you are the faceless, nameless hero, my accolades, my acknowledgement, and my gratitude go out to you. You do have credibility in this society, and your well deserved vindication is coming. |
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| mezzir |
seems funny to me
cause there's the stereotypical nice guy, but all of them claim to be the same
i think its a bit of bull
sure there are nice guys who never get laid and boo-hoo for them, but i think a lotta guys think of themselves and then assume they won't get laid aka a self fulfilling prophecy of sorts
i used to fit that mold and i never got laid, then i was like that, i'm gonna do what my emotions tell me to do instead of trying to fit the single nice guy mold
i even didn't think things would work out between me and my current girlfriend and at one point left a message for her saying i was sorry if i led her on but i don't want a relationship
silly me, i did want a relationship i just didn't think it was gonna work so i assumed the worst
and to end on a positive note, patience does pay, remember that
maybe you won't get laid as early as you want to, but when you do you'll be with someone that it won't matter how experienced you are, it'll be an act of passion, not lust
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| Endlesswave |
| haha that is just genius...pure genius... |
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| mezzir |
oh and one other thing irsp to the reason why girls always go for the guys
its pretty much a social norm for guys to have to make the first move
to all you nice guys: do you ever do that?
and i could be all wrong with this but it makes sense to me... |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Reads more like 'Ode to the Doormats' to me. A guy, any person for that matter, should be well balanced. Bit o' nice. Bit o' nasty. Too much sugar hurts the teeth! |
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| Arbiter |
| The weak always strive to be weaker. |
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| Shudder |
| its a confidence thing. |
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| Boomer187 |
ha, been there, done that.
more power to teh nice guys. |
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| Seric |
"I'm a nice guy and I'm going to stand up in the face of a tried, tested, proven and efficient evolutionarily instilled and natural instinctive desire to court another woman in a sexually forward (if not even possibly aggressive) manner like evolution would have (and has had) it. Then I'm going to bitch abotu how I never get any ass"
Mwahaha. Don't argue with adaptation kids. Just becuase you think you're such an intellectual that you've risen above animalistic courtship is in fact not indicative in any way shape or form that any human animal will ever rise above the rigidly preprogrammed elovutionary concepts that millions of years of trial and error delivered eloquantly to us as complete success.
Then again when I hear the words "success" and "humans" in the same sentace, images of deforestation, popular culture, and presidetial politics irradicate any inkling I've had about man being a success.
You can pursue a woman and still have utmost respect for her. |
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| Shad0wmaster |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Reads more like 'Ode to the Doormats' to me. A guy, any person for that matter, should be well balanced. Bit o' nice. Bit o' nasty. Too much sugar hurts the teeth! |
Well put! |
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| Seric |
There is a rare breed of compassionate boys, and those boys are as described above, except they arent envious because they didn't "get laid". The whole "getting laid" part of the argument threw the the validation of compassion in the argument right out the window. It's about caring.
Then there are others.. like the one who probably wrote that. Refer to previous post on primal sexuality. : ) |
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| Solstice |
| hahahaha that is so true it makes me want to cry. Funny how international borders dont seem to make a difference either, this is UNIVERSAl |
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