You don' t talk or show interest in women and then wonder why you' re single? Are they supposed to throw themselves at you as soon as you look at them?
According to Elliott Rodger, yes. He was so terrified of women that he couldn't even speak to them--yet was furious that they ignored him. He couldn't understand that the BMW and all the Hugo Boss shirts in the world couldn't make up for the fact that he was the silent, awkward weirdo in the corner.
He had no concept of how other people (of either sex) perceived him, and why they ignored him, while at the same time he expected others (especially women) to know what he wanted without being told, and willingly provide it.
And while most self-proclaimed Nice Guys aren't nearly so exceptional as ER was, there is some similar thinking at work here. These shy Nice Guys still expect women to notice them, somehow pick up on their interest, make the first approach, and patiently do the work of bringing the shy Nice Guy out of his shell. And when women don't perform this amazing feat of mind-reading and act on it,
they're the ones who are wrong, selfish, and deserving of the Nice Guy's anger and contempt.
Those guys not seem to know that women a) can' t read thoughts and b) want to get to know someone before the dating starts. If you just don' t talk because you' re shy, how tf are people supposed to get to know you?
I see a lot of narcissistic traits among self-proclaimed Nice Guys, and the expectation that women should read their minds and provide the kind of response they want without the Nice Guy having to take any risks or make any effort is typical. Nice Guys are so self-absorbed and caught up in their own desires and fantasies that they can't fully grasp that women have their own thoughts, perceptions, desires, etc. that not only don't revolve around them, but usually don't even involve the Nice Guy at all.
The Nice Guy has a script in his head of how interactions with women should play out--only to end up wondering why women won't
follow the fucking script like they're supposd to, and getting angry when they don't. It doesn't occur to him that the script only exists in his own head, that nobody else is running their life according to it, and that nobody is obligated to.
The basic Nice Guy script is, "I'm attracted to you, so therefore you have to give me a chance, and if you don't you're cruel and unfair." The woman's feelings of attraction (or lack of them) and right of refusal aren't even written into that script, because in the Nice Guy's mind what he wants is important and she wants is irrelevant. She can always be made to overcome her disinterest and fall in love with him, and if she doesn't she's the one who is wrong, and who is to blame--never the Nice Guy. Because he's a nice guy.
And in this case, the script is, "Attractive woman notices the shy guy in the corner, intuitively recognizes what a deep and sensitive soul he really is, and chooses him over the asshole/bad boy/Chad." In this fairy tale, it's the princess who rescues the Nice Guy from the locked tower room of his own insecurity and social ineptitude; all he has to do is passively wait, and she will save him.
It's just as shitty a fairy tale as the one fat, dumpy, and/or slovenly women tell themselves about handsome men recognizing their "inner beauty" and choosing them over some shallow, looks-obsessed skinny bitch. The only difference is that the Nice Guys cry over how they never get laid while the Inner Beauties cry over how they always end up pump-and-dumped. Moral: don't base your life on a goddamned fairy tale (and yes, rom-coms count as fairy tales).