Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 34–On sour grapes
This comic is inspired by a particular breed of dumb that bugs me a lot. People sometimes describe it as the Nice Guy ™ sensibility. These are people, not to be mistaken for guys who are actually nice, who whine about how women don’t date them and it’s because women always pick bad men who are bad for them. Women are too shallow and dumb to see the Nice Guy, they’re just after cool hot guys who will cheat on them and treat them badly . Never mind that probably a main reason the Nice Guy is interested in a particular woman is that she is physically attractive. Never mind that the fact that the Nice Guy thinks about women this way is a strong indication that he is neither a genuinely nice guy nor a particularly desirable partner.
A related phenomenon is the guy who is under the impression that he deserves a girlfriend because he is smart. Um…no. While intelligence can indeed be totally hot, it is no better or less shallow a reason to date someone than is physical appearance.
Do women sometimes pick bad partners? Obviously. So do men. It’s inevitable. Not everyone is a good match for everyone else, and some people aren’t good matches for anyone. But if you find yourself making judgments about what “all women” do, stop it. That’s sexist and dumb.
And that’s not very “nice,” now is it?
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July 5th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Just a quick question.. If I want to post a comic as a bulleting on myspace, do you prefer I directly post the image, or host the image on something like photobucket and make clicking on it come to your page? Or some other option? Or would you rather I just post a link?
July 5th, 2007 at 10:33 am
The image files are so tiny that I don’t mind if you directly post the image. And I’d certainly like it if you made some kind of link back as well. Other than that, knock yourself out.