Plagued Nice Guys

[Cosmos]

Say it with me, ladies: Swoon.

"If he is unarmed, he may as well be unarmed."

Aside from the awesome callout in the comments, can we just appreciate that this Nice Guy just called women "dumb bitches"? And that the image macro was from fucking 9gag?

Girl: Can you help me with math? I would really appreciate it!
Nice Guy: Of course, m'lady!
*start studying math, girl casually brings up her boyfriend*
Nice Guy: Typical female behavior, always having an ulterior motive. She's totally using me! And after I got my hopes up that she would give me a blowjob!

Also, a great commenter on the subreddit where I found this had this to say: "Interesting how much people who have ulterior motives for friendship are shocked when other people don't have ulterior motives for friendship."

And I saved the cringiest for last. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "Niceguy sends 5 page love letter to my friend after she tells him to leave her alone, complete with quotes from his own book."

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

I have absolutely no idea how to react to that five page letter, so, uh.... have a "feels" rating?

Seriously, though, what the fuck?

 

[Pinball Lizard]

The hell is a "three week wonder?"

 

[autisticdragonkin]

The hell is a "three week wonder?"

I think those are the three OK weeks until he starts beating her

 

[D.Angus]

Someone needs to buy @Cosmos and her friend a drink.

 

[Pinball Lizard]

By the way, does anyone know who this guy is? He's so perfect I think he must be a Poe but I'd like to know for sure.

 

[Cosmos]

Someone needs to buy @Cosmos and her friend a drink.

That's actually not mine, thank God. I just found it on the Nice Guys subreddit. But still, the recipient of that letter definitely deserves a drink.

 

[DrJonesHat]

Say it with me, ladies: Swoon.

"If he is unarmed, he may as well be unarmed."

Aside from the awesome callout in the comments, can we just appreciate that this Nice Guy just called women "dumb bitches"? And that the image macro was from fucking 9gag?

Girl: Can you help me with math? I would really appreciate it!
Nice Guy: Of course, m'lady!
*start studying math, girl casually brings up her boyfriend*
Nice Guy: Typical female behavior, always having an ulterior motive. She's totally using me! And after I got my hopes up that she would give me a blowjob!

Also, a great commenter on the subreddit where I found this had this to say: "Interesting how much people who have ulterior motives for friendship are shocked when other people don't have ulterior motives for friendship."

And I saved the cringiest for last. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "Niceguy sends 5 page love letter to my friend after she tells him to leave her alone, complete with quotes from his own book."

I can't actually make that out, I have really bad eyesight. Can someone gimme the highlights? But what has to go wrong in your brain to think that the correct response to being told "leave me alone" is "send a 5 page missive on my love for someone who just told me they're not interested?

 

[Old Blighty]

By the way, does anyone know who this guy is? He's so perfect I think he must be a Poe but I'd like to know for sure.

Jerry Messing. He was in Freaks and Geeks (played Gordon, iirc) and I don't think this was supposed to be anything but a headshot of some sort.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I can't actually make that out[...]

From what I skimmed, I think the gist of it is:

- a confession of love

- how the writer is odd

- a reiteration of said confession

- "the ball is now firmly in your court."

Some thing called The Continuum is also cited a lot.

 

[TheImportantFart]

And I saved the cringiest for last. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "Niceguy sends 5 page love letter to my friend after she tells him to leave her alone, complete with quotes from his own book."

I think you've done it. I think you've found something more pathetic and passive aggressive than Chris + Sarah Life Shares and Sonichu 2 combined.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Someone needs to buy @Cosmos and her friend a drink.

A couple stab vests wouldn't go wrong either. I wonder what became of our protagonist after this.

 

[theCWCandtheDead]

Maaaaan that 5 page letter!
Was emilies response to Matthew a restraining order!?

 

[TowinKarz]

The sad thing is, even if it was, he STILL won't see what he's doing wrong...." it's HER who's now got the courts involved, for NO REASON AT ALL!!!! Why does she keep doing this to meeeeeeeeeee?!?!?!?!? "

 

[DrJonesHat]

I blame the "everyone is special" school of self-esteem that was popular throughout the 90s and early 2000s. It taught an entire generation that they're entitled to be happy, and by extension, to the things that cause happiness, such as a girlfriend. The sense of entitlement is so strong with these guys you could power Chicago for a month of one their posts.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

I blame the "everyone is special" school of self-esteem that was popular throughout the 90s and early 2000s. It taught an entire generation that they're entitled to be happy, and by extension, to the things that cause happiness, such as a girlfriend. The sense of entitlement is so strong with these guys you could power Chicago for a month of one their posts.

An entire generation of people should not be blamed for this "nice guy TM" crap. Older people (over 30) act this way as well.

 

[TowinKarz]

I blame the "everyone is special" school of self-esteem that was popular throughout the 90s and early 2000s. It taught an entire generation that they're entitled to be happy, and by extension, to the things that cause happiness, such as a girlfriend. The sense of entitlement is so strong with these guys you could power Chicago for a month of one their posts.

I agree to the entitlement, but, I disagree it's something unique to Xers or Millennials, they didn't invent massive ego in the last 30 years, it's ALWAYS been around, it's just that yesteryear's unwanted love notes and flowers are this year's e-shrines on Facebook and YouTube rants.

Now, everyone can see it, not just the woman you're bugging.

 

[DrJonesHat]

I agree to the entitlement, but, I disagree it's something unique to Xers or Millennials, they didn't invent massive ego in the last 30 years, it's ALWAYS been around, it's just that yesteryear's unwanted love notes and flowers are this year's e-shrines on Facebook and YouTube rants.

Now, everyone can see it, not just the woman you're bugging.

Which actually will help stamp it out. Since more people can see it, that's more people looking at the behavior and saying "not cool dude". Yes, Nice Guys will have their asspatters, but hopefully normal people will continue to outnumber them.

EDIT: It seems to be more prevalent among the younger crowd to me, but maybe that's just because younger people use social more than the old farts and that's where we're getting our data from. My generation has its share of nice guys as well, I can testify to that. I happen to know one personally who's my age (he's basically Lucas Werner if Lucas had money but still had the creepy obsession with women half his age)

 

[Pinball Lizard]

The Nice Guy theme song?

 

[Cosmos]

I love that he immediately goes to cooking as a useful skill. In any other context it wouldn't be offensive, but considering his attitude he probably demands that any women who get the honor of meeting him know how to cook.

I can't even comment on something this full of cringe.

Who wants to bet that she didn't reply because she just didn't want to give this guy her Nintendo ID? And maybe there would be more female gamers if more male gamers weren't creepy gatekeepers like this idiot.

Just finishing off with a comic that describes Nice Guy Syndrome perfectly.