13 Reasons Why Nice Guys Are The Worst

Nice guys: pro or con? Here’s the case against that particular species.

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13 Reasons Why Nice Guys Are The Worst
Heben Nigatu

Nice people are great. They bring joy and love into our lives.

Self-proclaimed “nice guys,” however, are kind of not like that at all.

1. “Nice guys” are always trying to convince you they are *such* nice people.

2. “Nice guys” apparently aren’t listening to themselves when they speak.

3. It turns out there’s no such thing as the Nice Guy Card(TM).

Comic by Callmekito

4. “Nice guys” think that all women owe them something.

5. “Nice guys” think that “the friend zone” is a thing that is both unfair and some kind of punishment?

A different take on the original Friend Zone Fiona meme.

6. “Nice guys” aren’t really as great at compliments as they think they are.

Comic by Hanging Rock Comics

7. “Nice guys” don’t seem to have the most accurate grasp of reality.

Comic by Eat That Toast

8. “Nice guys” are all over the place! Trolling the Internet…

Comic by Toothpaste for Dinner

9. …and all over pop culture!

Source: 2.bp.blogspot.com  /  via: grantland.com

10. “Nice guys” are emotionally manipulative and, again, seem to not hear themselves speak.

Comic by Something Positive

11. “Nice guys” sometimes evoke sympathy…

Because, let’s be honest, everyone just wants to be loved.

…but their sense of entitlement is not just annoying, it can actually be pretty scary.

Find the full comic “The Friend Zoner vs. Nice Guy” by Mamamantis here.

12. “Nice guys” just miss so many things.

Courtesy of the now defunct Tumblr blog Nice Guys of OK Cupid.

13. And they’re always complaining about how “nice guys finish last.”

IT’S NOT A COMPETITION.

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    • lynne benoux 3 months ago

      Once I was friends with this “nice guy” who would ask me out all of the time. I was bored and went on some friendly dates, paid for my own food too. When I passed on his sexual advances one night he became a sullen asswad and later on I found out that he had two other ladies on the burners with me. Nice guy indeed.

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    • tomj11 3 months ago

      I do think PUA (Pick Up Artist, for anyone sane) advice works on women, so while “Nice Guys” may be a curse, there are a significant number of women who fall for shitty guys, over and over.

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    • HannahKisabeth 3 months ago

      Aint that the truth with some cheese on it.

      • tomp24 3 months ago

        No it’s not the truth…In reality the bad boy-aholes think they are EVERY BIT as entitled to sex with a chick as the nice guys do….The part about women hating nice guys because of there sense of “entitlement” is bullshit….They don’t like nice guys because they are boring and aren’t a challenge…The Aholes are every bit as entitled and women drop their panties for them all the time….I guess when it’s a cocky douche being entitled is acceptable but when it’s a boring nice guy it’s just so unacceptable. Women can choose to sleep with anyone they want just as men can….But alittle honesty would be appreciated….Chicks don’t like Nice guys because they are boring….not because of the so called entitlement complex they have when the aholes have the same exact entitlement complex.

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    • Frezzin 3 months ago

      As soon as women start asking guys out becomes a everyday phenonmina you’re going to have that “nice guy” syndrome. The problem in the investment. Nice guys aren’t trying to be your friend. Their trying to court you. They think women want “nice guys” (or what the dude perceives as a nice guy) as a boyfriend because women always complain “why do I always date jerks, why can’t I find a nice guy.”

      So to sum up…”nice guys,” grow a pair and ask the girl out instead of expecting her to just realize that’s what your after. And girls, stop assuming that you have no part to play in the courtship ritual. If you’re not interested, don’t expect the guy to be ok with it.

      Oh, and it is a competition. That’s just naive to say it isn’t.

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    • izakfezg 3 months ago

      I Think this is a stereotype. Not all nice guys are like that, and not all women are goddesses. This is a cruel, yet true fact. There is no perfect human, and there is only one way to make sure you are the best that you can be. By trying to change YOURSELF rather than others. The best thing you can do is to change yourself, and make others strive to be like you. Not to complain about others and say “THIS IS HOW YOU SHOULD ACT, DURR HURR.”. Seriously. Mirrors. USE THEM.

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    • MMR 3 months ago

      Shhhh… Don’t tell the MRA groups, etc on Reddit about this post!

      • catladyh 3 months ago

        Too late. They’re already rushing to laugh over how dumb women are, and how they deserve to be pumped and dumped for passing on the “nice guys.” As usual they totally miss the point of the article, which is SELF PROCLAIMED “NICE GUYS” ARE SELDOM VERY NICE. Of course, it’s not like these MRA/PUA tools understand women to begin with. Woman has sex with me = GAME works! Woman no has sex with me = What a bitch!

    • JohanPar 3 months ago

      In the case of that OkCupid question regarding being obligated to have sex with someone… What if you’re a willing porn star with a standing, signed contract for performing? That is essentially a legal obligation to have sex with someone. I’M SURE THAT’S WHAT HE WAS THINKING AS WELL, AMIRITE?

    • Merkuree 3 months ago

      It is all true!

    • jesspixieb 3 months ago

      #3 Omg. This can’t be anymore true :’)

    • Moshi_Moshi 3 months ago

      Hahaha so true. I’ve had a guy give me this “I’m a nice guy” speech to only berate me once I said no to him. Too bad he said it to someone not scared to call him out on his crap.

    • nicoledemi 3 months ago
       

      Truths. Nice guys are like unicorns.

      winner
    • Monkeymillions 3 months ago
       

      Ahem. Could wee use the more politically correct term “nice person”

      wut
    • Mools 3 months ago

      Yes, there are guys who only pretend to be nice because they think they will get something out of it. Yes, there are women who have passed by a number of legimitely nice guys in order to date assholes and then complain about all mem being jerks. However, I’m also pretty sure that finding a “mate” is a sort of competition which is often why jerks get more women than “nice guys”…they are often more confident and aggressive in pursuing those they are sexually interested in.

      • Ashley S 3 months ago

        You completely missed the point. It’s not that “nice guys” are pretending to be something they’re not to get laid. It’s that they genuinely believe that women owe them something for not being awful human beings.

      • Mools 3 months ago

        No, I got that. My point was that we shouldn’t make broad generalizations and assume that because some people behave one way it means all other members of the same sex are exactly the same. I’m saying there are legitimately nice guys out there who don’t expect anything. Some may want and hope more, but doesn’t mean that they are jerks when they don’t get anything more. Friendship, like any relationship, needs a clear understanding of expectations and if those expectations don’t match, there is no friendship in the first place.

      • tomp24 3 months ago

        And what the Ahole/Bad Boys doesn’t think they’re entitled to sex?? All this entitled crap is just a bullshit front….The Cocky Aholes are EVERY BIT as entitled as the “Nice guys” yet women doesn’t seem to be repulsed by their sense of entitlement…. So thinking a women owes you sex and having a sense of entitlement is awful if it’s a nice guy….but for the cocky asshole it’s fine??? Don’t get me wrong I understand why women might not like nice guys (boring, predictable, to nice, not a challenge etc etc) but the whole “entitlement part” is crap…Aholes think they are entitled to sex just as much as the entitled nice guys do….Yet women drop their pants for them all the time…I guess entitlement is perfectly fine when the guy is a “challenge” Women can reject nice guys all they want and it’s perfectly fine (they can date whoever they want as it’s their bodies) but stop with the misleading “entitlement crap”…..Like I said the sense of entitlement sure doesn’t seem to be a problem when it’s with a cocky ahole.

    • ImALoserBaby 3 months ago

      these guys that claim that they’re “nice guys” and that’s why they didnt get the girl are disillusioned. The reason they didnt get the girl is because they were too much of a bitch to make a move when the window of opportunity presented itself.

    • ImALoserBaby 3 months ago

      there’s a difference between being a nice guy and being a bitch. The guys that say they didnt get the girl because they’re a “nice guy” were really just too much of a bitch to make a move on her when the window was open.

    • Cates Holderness 3 months ago

      inb4 misandry

    • gubbabump 3 months ago

      Yeah there are definitely “nice guys” like this that are just a different kind of jerk. Being nice doesn’t entitle you to anything in return. But there is also the phenomenon - which I’ve experienced many times - of being friend-zoned despite the fact that there is obvious mutual attraction. For instance, girl says, “you’re great, you’re sweet and kind and understanding, I love spending time with you, you’d be a wonderful boyfriend, any girl would totally fall for you, I would definitely date a guy like you” except they don’t date you, they choose instead to date the guy who isn’t you, who couldn’t be any more unlike you and is therefore not great and not a wonderful boyfriend.  I’ve given up trying to figure it out and do my best to just let go and give up on girls like that now I’m a little older and wiser, but between the ages of 13 and 25 it’s confusing as shit to hear how desirable you are and yet remain undesired. Actually fuck that, no matter how old you are it’s maddening. “Nice guys” just need to learn not to go after emotionally unavailable girls.

    • Koolgecko91 3 months ago

      Now I understand that “Nice guys” are generally misogynistic as shit, post like these that circle jerk around the “nice guy haters” are just as bad as the circle jerks around being “nice guys”

      • Bryant T. 3 months ago

        No, because posts like this call them out for their awful behavior, and may eventually lead some of them to take along, hard look in the mirror and change who they are. It can help women to know that they aren’t alone in having had these experiences. It can, slowly, help change our culture for the better. Ignoring “nice guys” as a problem hasn’t done anything to make it go away, so it’s time to start calling out bad behavior for what it is.

      • krisc2 3 months ago

        “may eventually lead some of them to take along, hard look in the mirror and change who they are”… No, it won’t. It’ll work just as well as ridiculing criminals and expecting there to be no more crime. Teaching guys to not take rejection personally, and to not put emotional investment into feelings that aren’t returned, would be the constructive and goal-setting method. But, as stated, too many people here are gleefully jerking said circle and sharing how much they OMG LOOOOVE THISS!!!

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