Warning: Nice Guys Approaching

This is not really directed at anyone specific, but more to the male population as a whole. I've heard countless guys complain (loudly, and usually in whiny, pseudo-depressed, "woe-is-me" voices) about how girls never fall for nice guys. I understand the occasional comment about a specific girl who broke that fellow's heart for an overly-pierced, mannerless male-bimbo - but that is where it should stop. I have messages for those "nice guys" who always claim that they "finish last."

GROW the heLL up.

According to a general survey of over 100 randomly chosen girls and guys, the self-proclaimed "nice guys" are just as likely to:

1. Attempt to feel up a girl during the first few dates

2. Watch television while you kiss

3. Pressure girls to go further than they'd wish to, but in a more sneaky way - they bring it up constantly, if casually, so that if the heavy pressure isn't there, the constant referrals are enough to equate to them

4. Think that when girls get angry, it's because of PMS (not like girls have actual feelings, or anything)

5. Constantly broadcast if another girl hits on them at all (must be a big occasion)

6. Play mind games when it comes to just about anything

7. Flirt, flirt, flirt

So...do those guys still wonder why girls choose the "bad boys" over them? At least in that area, girls know what to expect - they pay for themselves from the beginning, they know that cheating is a possibility, they don't expect flowers or poems or presents. They anticipate the heartbreak, so that they bounce back up so quickly that it doesn't even seem like a big deal. When it comes to the "nice guys," the potential for heartbreak is just as great, but girls are lulled into a sense of trust, a sense of love. And those heartbreaks actually have an impact greater than the pound or so gained from eating an entire quart of Ben and Jerry's.

My point is that those boys who continuously whine about how girls never go for nice guys...well, in general, they are kind of pathetic. And not nearly as nice as one would think. Sometimes, not even nice at all. They should all be made to wear a label that reads: "WARNING! Nice guy approaching."

Of course, there are true nice guys in the world, and those above give them a bad name. These boys, though, don't go around talking about how nice and sweet and thoughtful they are. They actually act nice and sweet and thoughtful. They carry books and open doors and listen. And it is these boys who deserve to have the girls' respect, and their attention, and their hearts.

Sorry for my harsh way of writing, but I have a low tolerance level for patheticness.