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:
hellkell: We say much the same, in different ways. They mistake my lack (in general) of “swearing” with my thinking they aren’t douchenozzles, even when I tell them so.
Stupid is as stupid does.
@hellkell
“Atomicgrizzly, I love your nicknames for him.”
Thanks, I try 😀
“and have the nerve to say they aren’t entitled asswaffles.”
You can’t ban me! I have freedom of speech!
That sucks, Argenti. Unawesome parents are the most complicated relationships there are, I think. But from what I can tell here awesomeness skipped a generation to hit you full on, because you are pretty awesome.
TTF — ^.^ thank you!
And yeah, complex is one word for it >.<
Shorter idiot troll: “I’ll be rude to everyone until the host asks me to leave! So there!” Yeah, that’s a hit at parties.
Here’s where “asswaffle” got lifted from: http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/45080/the-50-most-hilarious-autocorrects-of-2012/
I like it because it takes away the problems of “twatwaffle.”
Wait, people actually say mangina? http://cdn.damnyouautocorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MANGINA-david_thumb.png
1 more beer then we’re lesbians.
I think I’m gonna go watch Bound.
“1 more beer then we’re lesbians.” — there are totally (very annoying) people like this, they magically turn straight again real quick…
Belated Staffie pics!
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AW LOOKIT THE PUPPY!!! Am ded from cute.
Igor, fire up the resurrection engine! 😛
But thank you. 😀
Ginger kitty squee!
Staffy squee!
This thread has just piled up more awesome, with the notable exception of Oooh Women’s Hairy Legs Don’t Give Me Boners They Have No Right Troll. I don’t know where to start catching up with the discussion of nerd/geek misogyny, pets, and smackdowns.
M Dubz – “Yeah, sex is messy and goofy, and a few stray hairs ending up in various places is really the LEAST of what can deviate from airbrushed, pornographic “perfection” (ugh)”
Ha, I guess you read Grumbles’s black/white view of sex as Perfect or Fail, then. I wonder if he’d write off sex as FAIL FAIL FAIL if it included:
Falling out of the bed
Farting
Being interrupted by cat/dog at crucial moment, yelling at said cat/dog to GO AWAY
Making silly jokes
Wearing a sweater
Getting the giggles at any point in the proceedings.
‘Cause I can say, hand on heart, that sex with any of those variations or none has been perfect. And there was not one bit of shaving or special grooming involved (unless the sex was a result of someone getting their hair brushed).
Has anyone given David a heads-up about banning the obnoxious bore? I think it’s past time he got the arse.
I have an ex who was looking forward to some sexy-times with someone. When they got to his place he told her there was a razor she could use to shave her armpits.
She said, “what?” He told her that he expected her to be without armpit hair.
She told him that if that was how he felt, she expected a bus shortly.
Falling out of the bed
Most educational of those… lingerie, satin sheets, and waterbeds DON’T MIX. We ended up in mid air, briefly. It was 8 p.m., on the second floor. Luckily we knew everyone knew what we were doing, so it wasn’t too embarrasing (I was 17).
Lesson learned… sometimes sex is silly/clumsy/etc.
The other things which have not make sex less than perfect are too many to list.
LOL LOL I’m seeing something like a Turner storm scene here …
Heeheehee. I’ve given up on the pornographic perfection a long time ago. Way too much effort.
I can’t imagine it being anywhere near as much fun!
It’s exactly the same amount of fun, just easier to do lol.
Nothing sets off a fit of giggles like turning your head to give your partner neck kissing access, only to find your face an inch away from curious kitty face. “Hey guys, whatcha doing??? Is it bed time?”
When BoyFantastic and I first met, I had a very dim little cat who had, unbeknownst to us, snuck into my room and hidden under the bed before we’d gone upstairs. We found this out when at a… crucial moment, she thought he was attacking me and jumped on his back with claws full out to ‘defend’ me :/
OT but this is possibly the most perfect moment of the whole internet.
Kitties At Unfortunate Moments!
OMG thenat, you’re right, that is the best conversation evah!
@thenatfantastic
D’aww. Hehe. I tend to do petsweeps before snuggling and stuff, and my snugglebuddy blocks up the cat-flap into his room. (He only has a single bed, so we pump up a double air-bed. This delights one of his kitties.)
Lol! I had a cat who slept the at the end of my bed during the entirety of sex one time.
Mr K has banned the kittehs from our bedroom. Which doesn’t help if we’re foolin’ around downstairs! 😀
@Joanna
“Goddamn humans, engaging in their bizarre furless rituals, disturbing my sleep…”