When men here aren’t misinterpreting what women say, their ideas of how women and dating ”should” work seems to come from entertainment created by men intended to be consumed by young men and boys. Women saying ”I want a nice guy” or ”I want a good man” IS NOT CODE FOR ”I’ll fuck any guy who is nice to me. Open a door for me and I’ll open my legs!”

In high school movies where the protagonist is a dork crushing on the hottest cheerleader that’s dating his bully, the star Quarterback. Then, at the end of the movie, the super hot girl realizes dork is better than her boyfriend, usually by showing he’s morally better.

The harem is more accurate as being a Nice Guy wish fulfillment. The male protagonist is boring, bland, Socially inept, and yet a bunch of women are obsessed with him because he’s super nice to them.

I just noticed this pattern of men claiming women lied to them, but they can't prove that women said what they think women said. For anyone saying that I don’t talk to men, I do. The men I know also said they got their bad ideas of ”Being nice gets them sex” from their equally clueless male peers.

And if the goal is a relationship, and not sex, then the guy wouldn't be laser focused on fuckboys. He’d pay more attention to good men in relationships.