So, “Nice Guys” are causing a stir on the Internet again, thanks largely to a new(ish) Tumblr blog called “Nice Guys” of Ok Cupid, which posts selected highlights from the OKCupid profiles of self-proclaimed “nice guys” who make it very clear, in their profiles and in their answers to OKCupid’s “match” questions, that they are in fact anything but nice.
Some of them are actual or potential date rapists, convinced that women that they’re “nice” to owe them sex. Others are bitter from too many rejections, and launch long tirades in their profiles about how women are bitches and whores. Still others are clueless on a more fundamental level, declaring that women have “an obligation to shave their legs” and otherwise prettify themselves for men while noting that they themselves only shower or brush their teeth occasionally.
It’s not clear how any of this is supposed to convince the women of OKCupid that these angry, ranting, hapless-yet-entitled “nice guys” are indeed as “nice” as advertised, much less convince any rational human being to have sex with them.
The site is a goldmine of unintentional self-revelation — as is a similar site with the name of, er, OKCupid Goldmine — and I’ve spent hours looking through the pictures on both sites and discussing them with friends. The only reason I haven’t linked to it in the past is that neither of them blur out the faces of the people they feature, which seems to me a pretty major invasion of privacy. (As you no doubt have noticed, I’ve taken the liberty of somewhat creeepily disguising the faces of the guys in the pics I’m posting here.) But “Nice Guys of OKCupid has been pretty widely discussed, linked to by Jezebel (1, 2) and The Guardian and even the Men’s Rights subreddit, to mention merely a few examples; Ok Cupid Goldmine is also provoking discussions. Posts on both sites regularly get dozens if not hundreds of comments and reblogs on Tumblr. The cat’s already out of the bag.
Here are a couple more of these “Nice Guys” with their faces all spiral-ized:
LMAO at “cold glass of piss.” Like someone took a piss and then took the time to carefully refrigerate it.
I understand why someone who was feeling bitter about their past relationships would post ranty shit on, say, their own blog. What I don’t understand is why they’d post it as part of their profile on a dating site. Do they actually want to get dates? If so, how do they think addressing potential dates by telling them that you think they’re all bitches and sluts is going to achieve that goal?
Erm, he put that on his dating profile?
The last guy is fucking terrifying.
Well, at least the last guy is honest about how he wants to control and abuse his partners. Creeeeeeeeeepy.
Allow me to summarize the last dude and his friend who wants potential dates to bleed.
WANTED – WOMAN WITH DEATH WISH. MUST SHAVE LEGS DAILY. IF YOU DON’T HATE YOURSELF I WILL HURT YOU.
I would think a “cold glass of piss” would be preferable to a scalding hot one. Or even a warm one.
OMG, that tumblr is hilarious!
Seriously, it’s really hilarious:
http://niceguysofokc.tumblr.com/image/39253703625
Creepy is not the same as nice, most “nice” guys don’t get that.
I’m seriously asking. What would make anyone who was looking for a platform on which to expound on their dumbass theories about the Nature of Woman thing “I know – OK Cupid!”?
Gaaaah, David, that spiral thing only amps the creepy. It’s like, Uzumaki, Manboobz edition! (Though I still prefer that to having their faces shown.)
And… uh. Wow. DAMN, guys, put a bow on it, will ya?
@blitzgirl
That’s a great one. A proud, arrogant homophobe. And proof that college sometimes teaches people nothing.
The last one is legitimately terrifying. The thought that this guy has women in his life, as friends or family or co-workers, actually scares me.
Sorry, blitzgal. You’d think I’d get that one right.
Probably the same thing that drives trolls to come here and complain that David is not following the best practices of investigative journalism. People can be amazingly dense.
Those swirly faces creep me out. How did you do that? (I’m sure it’s something everyone knows but — as you can tell by looking at my posters — graphic arts are not really my thing.)
RE: David
I don’t think piss would be pleasant at ANY temperature. (If I HAD to take it, I’d take it warm, but then again, it’s fucking winter here, I’m cold enough.)
That last guy … strewth. If I knew someone like that I’d be having a word to the police about him.
@CassandraSays
Maybe they just have women on the brain? It is a dating site and I assume they’re their to get laid/validate their theory that they will never get laid because blah blah blah I am a twit look at me blah blah arglebargle.
Also, why is the first guy showing the women of OK Cupid his tummy and his sad little tattoos? Is that meant to make them change their bitchy ways?
Seriously I was just on niceguysofokc and then I came here to this joy.
My first thought about the cold glass of piss was that hey, at least it wasn’t fresh. And that last guy… like, how do people even think that it’s okay to think that way, let alone admit to it? On a DATING site?
The swirly faces are creepy but no more so than the ones they’re disguising … you could say they’re more accurate portrayals of these men. And rather Dr Who-ish at the same time.
Look at the pic of the guy who wants to see you bleed. There is a person and a cat in the background. I wonder if he realized it when he posted it to okc.
OMG, he has what could be either a really poorly rendered dragon or some sort of insect above one of his nipples in crappy faded ink. I must stop being a slut immediately now that I’ve seen that.
@cloudiah
Get a photoshop program. GIMP is free, but the non-windowed one is annoying.
Select the bit you want to swirlify.
Filter – hunt for ‘swirl’ or similar.
Apply filter.
TA-DAH! Swirlies.
“The last one is legitimately terrifying. The thought that this guy has women in his life, as friends or family or co-workers, actually scares me.”
Yeah, I just forwarded that to the not-an-ex, that dude is legitimately terrifying >.<