Day 5: My Nice Guy
My life has turned into an endless pursuit of sleep. I guess things were better when I was staying up all night and sleeping until the middle of the afternoon because at least I was getting large hours of it a time, but now my body refuses to sleep past 4-5 hours, on some sort of demented nap schedule. I’m trying to whip it into submission by pushing myself to stay awake all day, but once I hit a brick wall, I am out and oops, there goes my evening. Hello, 2am! I have been wiling away some of these late night hours talking to a dude I met via Craigslist, who at first seemed promising, but then he did something that basically puts you on the “Do Not Make Out” list (kind of like the Do Not Call list). He started complaining about how hard it is to be a “nice guy”.
Now, while it may seem that I am yet another one of those bitches with en endless amount of daddy issues who only goes for douchebags, that is actually not the case. My boyfriends, and even the one I thought I would one day marry, were all nice guys. They didn’t cringe when I made them go get me Advil for my terrible cramps, they would make me dinner, open doors and always understood that No meant no (except when you know, it doesn’t. Ow!) I have done that whole hooked on rejection dance that only bad boys can bring you and in the end, I got love for the nice guy. Being nice is not the issue.
The issue with the “nice guy” and what they are actually complaining about when you listen to their boring rant long enough is that they actually hate women, even more than the guys who are assholes in an overt way. The “nice guy” isn’t looking for someone who’s his equal or his partner (even though many of them will give lip service to this and may even claim to be “feminists” if they are not too busy blaming feminism for the fact that women won’t put up with their shit) or even his hot lay for the night, he is almost always looking for a mom, a sympathetic noise maker and a virgin. They want a woman who will worship them and won’t dump them or cheat on them because they are “nice” and who will eat their condescending, paternalistic attitude up with a spoon.
Anyway, you can rest assured that this fellow will not be getting a piece of This.
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