The myth of some "nice guys" [View All]

After 32 years of being a single female and a particular experience tonight, I've decided to have it with that nice guy-type who is soooo kind to and sensitive around a woman, figuring that surely her recognition of such will result in the reward of a romantic relationship, until it doesn't, at which point he adjudicates her an ungrateful bitch. Nice. Real insidiously nice.

Makes me <i>almost</i> nostalgic for those types who are at least up front about being assholes.

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(For what it's worth, I realize that the same manipulative dynamic may occur in reverse direction between genders, but conventional male/female role power differentials in this culture make that scenario <i>way</i> less common.)

Thanks for letting me vent, folks.