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Again I think that the community needs to stop using labels and terminology because it's not actually making things better, it's making things LESS clear and misleading people. Using "nice" as a synonym for "supplicating" is a stupid thing to do in my opinion.
You're right. When I think 'Nice Guy,' I think of the supplicating guy that bides for attractive women's attention and at the same time puts on a total facade of being really complementary and courteous. I really think another word or phrase should be used because there is nothing at all wrong with being nice, guys
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That makes guys think that they can't actually be nice and they end up becoming jerks and saying stuff like, "Are men who go up and act totally like they are the shit and do not show any politeness towards women actually being more genuine than 95% of the rest of the male population. My answer? Yes, yes they are." No offense Plethora, I think you're a good guy, I blame the community's general mindset for this.
In that quote I am talking about being genuine and congruent, not about what you should do. I think a healthy balance is needed between being C+F and being genuinely good. I, however, took the extreme side in my argument because almost every single guy I see is too far on the other extreme. If you already have that healthy balance or you have already found a place in your game where you feel most comfortable (and successful), then this probably won't be too relative to you.
It's like the concept of 'take everything a woman does as an IOI.' This is an extreme and simply isn't true, but it is completely opposite to the extreme that most men believe that 'nothing short of a SOI from a woman is an IOI.' The former is probably more accurate. If you are like most guys and are wondering all the time 'is she interested?' then by internalizing the first concept you will probably land on a healthy balance between the two.