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:
Now he was (past tense) a high school teacher…
Liar, and I begin to think sock.
Certainly he has been looking things up.
Yeah, the socky smell is getting stronger. Perhaps he thinks it’ll be a great coup.
What, for us to say “Hi, Mr Al, You’re still banned” again?
I guess the smell of old socks is seasonal.
(Because that’s what Brussel sprouts smell like to me.)
Could be the other Boston brat though.
Maybe we should just call Brussel Dogsbreath.
OT, I’m reading a thread from last year about tattoos and it’s got some Owly classics in it. Makes me laugh because I was in my 40s when I got mine and my mum was in her 70s.
*call him Brussel Dogsbreath
I actually have good reason to believe that Diogenes isn’t a sock, that he is indeed a real person who does in fact happen to be of Iranian descent.
Kind of a pity. If he were Mr Al, it’d mean one less douchebag in the world.
Ah, so the smell isn’t sock then, just asshole.
Skidmark the Troll.
I think this was before your time…
Oh gawd yes, that idiot! He posted here a few times, didn’t he? Clarence or some such name.
So, many new comments.
Preference=/=obligation
I have many preferences, but many of them aren’t deal breakers.
I prefer no beards, but I won’t demand a guy not have one because it is my preference.
Man, performing oral sex on hairy vulvae and wiping one’s ass… women are so demanding of impossible tasks.
Especially if required to do both at once!
@heathenbee I stopped using my neti pot after those guys in Louisiana died. They got brain parasites from their tap water! I didn’t feel like keeping distilled water around (although I may have to now if I can get myself to actually use my CPAP machine), so I stopped doing the neti thing altogether.
@Kittehs’ Help
Lies! Cunnilingus was impossible until the 1970’s, when women* started shaving their pubes. I guess that piece I read about attitudes toward cunnilingus in classical Greece was a tissue of lies.
Cynic is a bastion of intellectual dishonesty and has repeatedly bragged in public about being here just to be a dick to people. Get rid of him.
@emilygoddess
I boil a bunch of water and mix the salt stuff in while it’s still hot, then store it in the fridge for use over a couple of days. It takes a bit to get up to room temp, but it is easyish. YMMV, of course.
When I first encountered the cynic, his careful tone–because he’s all about tone–tricked me into thinking he was reasonable. But he quickly put the lie to his tone.
Now he brags that he always brings nuance. By nuance he means lies.
Then he let us know that he likes being here to manipulate folks. His very words.
I don’t know that I need to hear anything more than that.
BTW, anybody see all the Star Trek twittering going on with the astronaut tweeting from space? This is the world we live in. It’s pretty awesome.
@howard
That was great. It’s like, there’s an astronaut tweeting from space and somehow the story just gets better. I love this world sometimes.
did someone mention Dio?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjCBV6o_DSE&w=420&h=315%5D
Diogenes’ story about being a HS teacher brought the lulz. Doesn’t he know that no one listens to the substitute?
“I boil a bunch of water and mix the salt stuff in while it’s still hot, then store it in the fridge for use over a couple of days. It takes a bit to get up to room temp, but it is easyish. YMMV, of course.”
That’s a good idea, we’re on unchlorinated water here.
One thing I did quit using was the awesome zinc drops that came with mine; turns out zinc can permanently wreck your sense of smell : /
@hellkell
Especially when it wasn’t brought up when it would have been relevant (advice to pecunium about HS math and college).