We've all heard the story about the archetypical NiceGuy (TM). He goes around preying on unsuspecting, hapless women. He attempts to befriend them and is unfailingly "nice". But what's really going on is that he wants to trick these women into giving them sex. He's nice solely and only because he is trying to get fast, easy sex.

Then when he fails in getting sex, he stomps around like a petulant child whose mommy just took away his candy. To hear some tell it, these "NiceGuys (TM) literally say things like:

"I was nice to her. SHE OWES ME SEX!"

These men turn dark and violent when they don't get what they want, according to the dominant memes and narratives. And, the story goes, there are literally millions upon millions of these walking, ticking time bombs. The scaremongering about "NiceGuys (TM)" is that just about any man who is nice and then makes his move is about to explode into an Elliot Rodgeresque rage if he is denied sex.

In my opinion, the "NiceGuy(TM)" is a figment of overactive imaginations (and that's putting it rather charitably). He doesn't exist, not anywhere nearly as commonplace as some people like to claim. If there are "NiceGuys(TM)", they comprise an infinitesimally small number of men, limited to the seriously mentally ill. If those who propagate the "NiceGuy (TM)" mythology were correct, Elliot Rodger would have been the tip of the iceberg. His crimes would have been repeated literally on a weekly basis all over the world, everywhere from small towns to the largest megalopolis. And if there are "NiceGuys (TM)", and this is such a pressing issue, why then is this scourge not being treated as a paramount law enforcement problem? If there are literally millions of wannabe Elliot Rodgers out there, why are the police not stomping every computer nerd's guts out? Why aren't the police rounding up the weirdos in the chess club and the engineering club and the math club and running them downtown for questioning?

And if there are so many "NiceGuys (TM)" out there, why aren't we hearing more about men saying things like "I was nice to her; SHE OWES ME SEX!" I'll tell you why -- because no men say that. Because no men believe that. None except for the seriously mentally ill and the criminally minded. None. The NiceGuy(TM) that some folks wave around like a bloody flag is a ghost, a chimera, a will-o-the-wisp.

The NiceGuy(TM) does not exist. He's a figment of feminists' and BPers' warped imaginations. He's a cartoon villain created to demonize truly good but misguided and confused men who were taught ineffective ways of relating to the world. He's a caricature having no basis in reality.

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