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TV Tropes + "Nice Guys" = Comedy Gold
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I've always found the term "nice guy" the pinnacle of intellectual laziness. It reminds me of when people boast about how intelligent they are despite never accomplishing anything.
Being a "nice guy" is convenient because everyone thinks of themselves that way. It's something you don't really even need to justify. Just say you're a "nice guy" and there's no need to say anything more.
In reality the term "Nice Guy" is what you say about someone when you have no other way to describe them. When you ask someone to describe their friend, when they usually have nothing to say about them they go to the "well he's a real nice guy and everything" description. Because it's convenient, and completely devoid of any description. It's a statement that implies it should say a lot except it says next to nothing about the person. An actual nice person usually doesn't boast about themselves in this manner, and they would usually have enough humility to be happy that the girl is with someone that had more of a backbone.
"Nice" is a polite way of saying "If nothing else, harmless" and that's not fertile ground for a relationship to grow from because just about everyone who isn't in jail right now is probably comparably "nice".
"Nice" is a prerequisite to at least not instantly repel a woman by being a creep, not some unique bargaining chip only you have.
"Nice Guys" at once overestimate it's value, and overestimate how much they have of it.
That's why actual nice people don't describe themselves as such.