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01 Apr 2006, 3:28 pm

"Become the Jerk that Women Love" (F.J. Shark).

Alright then...

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01 Apr 2006, 10:32 pm

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The thing is though, does all this stuff lead to a long, lasting relationship? I don't think DeAngelo is exactly teaching us how to get into a lasting relationship that may lead to marriage. I think in the end, lasting relationships come out of strong, healthy friendships. I think DeAngelo is promoting more shallow, quick relationships.




I think DeAngelo is promoting his book, to make a buck off of people who will buy it.



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01 Apr 2006, 10:41 pm

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ELLCIM wrote:

The thing is though, does all this stuff lead to a long, lasting relationship? I don't think DeAngelo is exactly teaching us how to get into a lasting relationship that may lead to marriage. I think in the end, lasting relationships come out of strong, healthy friendships. I think DeAngelo is promoting more shallow, quick relationships.


I think DeAngelo is promoting his book, to make a buck off of people who will buy it.


There is also a certain degree of entertainment value to what he says. He does like to put "wusses" in a bad light, which helps the egos of other men.



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03 Apr 2006, 5:16 am

Like I said in another post, there is a difference between a nice guy and a good guy. Women want a GOOD guy, and thats somewhat different from a NICE guy.



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03 Apr 2006, 10:33 am

ELLCIM wrote:
The thing is though, does all this stuff lead to a long, lasting relationship? I don't think DeAngelo is exactly teaching us how to get into a lasting relationship that may lead to marriage. I think in the end, lasting relationships come out of strong, healthy friendships. I think DeAngelo is promoting more shallow, quick relationships.


What he's said on long-term relationships and actually landing em is in the end people do want sincerity, just not in the first 10 dates or so. Its almost as if to say even if you meet the person who'd be completely right for you, odds are you'd have some major problems and she'd still end up flaking on you unless you did at least some degree of these things. Maybe I've just seen way too many of the wrong things happen to or with friends, maybe my manifestation of AS is really that much more precise in terms of bad nonverbals so I can't rate my own experiences as anything, I don't know. It just keeps getting proven over and over and I keep seeing fewer and fewer exceptions.


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03 Apr 2006, 12:54 pm

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What he's said on long-term relationships and actually landing em is in the end people do want sincerity, just not in the first 10 dates or so. Its almost as if to say even if you meet the person who'd be completely right for you, odds are you'd have some major problems and she'd still end up flaking on you unless you did at least some degree of these things. Maybe I've just seen way too many of the wrong things happen to or with friends, maybe my manifestation of AS is really that much more precise in terms of bad nonverbals so I can't rate my own experiences as anything, I don't know. It just keeps getting proven over and over and I keep seeing fewer and fewer exceptions.


Talk about inefficiency! :lol: Why do all the cocky and funny stuff when you're going to get a sincere relationship anyway? If the end goal is to build a house, why put off building the house and dig a big hole in the front yard that is going to be filled in anyway once the house is built? If someone doesn't like you because you don't have enough C&F, that's their problem, because they don't accept you for who you are.

Part of relationships is accepting another person "as is".



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03 Apr 2006, 5:46 pm

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Talk about inefficiency! :lol: Why do all the cocky and funny stuff when you're going to get a sincere relationship anyway? If the end goal is to build a house, why put off building the house and dig a big hole in the front yard that is going to be filled in anyway once the house is built? If someone doesn't like you because you don't have enough C&F, that's their problem, because they don't accept you for who you are.

Part of relationships is accepting another person "as is".


I think your missing the point, I wouldn't do it if I didn't feel it was absolutely necessary. Another thing - I'm not a geek, my friends aren't geeks, and even if I did want to try for the kind of girl who'd want a 'nice guy' she'd probably be that sheltered to where she'd be a bit scared off by social antics and the types of guys I talk to, it's happened in the past and they don't allow for much of a sense of paradox in a person (ie. what they see is what they get and if it isn't they're too scared to take a venture to figure it out). Another thing, even if I did land a girlfriend like that, while I'll give almost any girl a chance to show who she is, a lot of times in the past the uber-accepting types have just depressed me and I just felt I was rotting away when I hung out with em - that's not deliberate, more along the lines of inherent emotions that blue was talking about in her thread.

Seriously, I'll keep an opened mind but untill I see something that actually works for me I'll have to assume I need to work on myself if I want to be more relatable. Life's a b---- and sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and face it, if anything I think that's being more true to ones self than most people are willing to be because its taking reality over ego.


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19 Jul 2006, 7:01 am

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Most girls declare these kinds of claims complete nonsense, but it can be pretty hard to ignore when you're a guy who wouldn't hurt a fly, who is generally in complete working order, and who is strangely ignored by girls. I've lost count of the number of lonely guys I've known who would clearly make outstandingly devoted and kind long term partners with those they were interested in, far more so than the cocky a**holes. It's hard to see exactly why it happens, but I'd say there are a lot of women who are attracted


ugh it's not the cocky "a**holes", in fact when a girl says her boyfriend is a "jerk" 9 times out of 10 its because she didn't get what she wanted and starts crying like a 3 year old. Not because the guy is truly 'a jerk'. Next many men of high value (good looks, personality, social status), have their pick of the women and are not needy... this is the biggest turn off to women: Needy nice guys.

It's also a fact that the "nice guys" are losers in some way:

**They are boring people (limited interests)
**Socially inept (perhaps?)
**They are wusses around women (treat them different then they'd treat there guy friends or just strangers)
**They are too serious all the time
**Have no sense of humor
**Have no sense of adventure
**Are afraid of being their BEST selves, and expressing themselves they see inside their fantasies in their minds eye
**Are needy / in too much of need of validation and approval from other people or strangers
**Are not properly groomed / Bad hair / clothes / fashion sense

I could probably go on... but many "nice guys" need a good kick in the butt and stand up for themselves and stop SUPPLICATING women, thats the problem with those kinds of guys...

DO NOT TREAT A WOMAN ANY DIFFERENTLY THEN YOU WOULD YOUR GUY FRIEND OR YOUR BRATTY SISTER. Many women are not that wonderful to be around, period. Wussy guys should take charge more and dump women they don't like instead of being slave to their desire for sex.

The fact is *real men* get laid, wussy guys who treat women like they are goddesses do not. the fact 'wussy' nice guys either 1) get their feelings involved way too fast or 2) have no clue how to vibe with women or 3) do not know how to show women a good time.

I'm sure the ladies in the thread can add their horror stories of lame "nice guys", who just didn't "get it".



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19 Jul 2006, 2:40 pm

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ugh it's not the cocky "a**holes", in fact when a girl says her boyfriend is a "jerk" 9 times out of 10 its because she didn't get what she wanted and starts crying like a 3 year old. Not because the guy is truly 'a jerk'. Next many men of high value (good looks, personality, social status), have their pick of the women and are not needy... this is the biggest turn off to women: Needy nice guys.

It's also a fact that the "nice guys" are losers in some way:

**They are boring people (limited interests)
**Socially inept (perhaps?)
**They are wusses around women (treat them different then they'd treat there guy friends or just strangers)
**They are too serious all the time
**Have no sense of humor
**Have no sense of adventure
**Are afraid of being their BEST selves, and expressing themselves they see inside their fantasies in their minds eye
**Are needy / in too much of need of validation and approval from other people or strangers
**Are not properly groomed / Bad hair / clothes / fashion sense

I could probably go on... but many "nice guys" need a good kick in the butt and stand up for themselves and stop SUPPLICATING women, thats the problem with those kinds of guys...

DO NOT TREAT A WOMAN ANY DIFFERENTLY THEN YOU WOULD YOUR GUY FRIEND OR YOUR BRATTY SISTER. Many women are not that wonderful to be around, period. Wussy guys should take charge more and dump women they don't like instead of being slave to their desire for sex.

The fact is *real men* get laid, wussy guys who treat women like they are goddesses do not. the fact 'wussy' nice guys either 1) get their feelings involved way too fast or 2) have no clue how to vibe with women or 3) do not know how to show women a good time.

I'm sure the ladies in the thread can add their horror stories of lame "nice guys", who just didn't "get it".

It is funny that I am kind, thoughtful, sometimes funny, smart, and not extremely bad looking, but women ignore me left and right. I signed on to MySpace for the express purpose of meeting women, and I haven't gotten a single response back out of all the messages I've sent.

Women are usually polite to me when I talk to them in person, but like everyone, they never invite me to do things with them or anything.



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19 Jul 2006, 3:59 pm

Mordy wrote:
It's also a fact that the "nice guys" are losers in some way:

**They are boring people (limited interests)
**Socially inept (perhaps?)
**They are wusses around women (treat them different then they'd treat there guy friends or just strangers)
**They are too serious all the time
**Have no sense of humor
**Have no sense of adventure
**Are afraid of being their BEST selves, and expressing themselves they see inside their fantasies in their minds eye
**Are needy / in too much of need of validation and approval from other people or strangers
**Are not properly groomed / Bad hair / clothes / fashion sense



Hee, hee!! Shouldn't laugh but these are so true they're painfully funny. Not that it's impossible to get a girlfriend with these traits - you'll just have to wait many years, be very lucky, then very obedient to keep her......

I think the main reason that many women fall for the meat-heads is that it's just easier for them (the women that is). Most people hate taking risks - would you want to risk the humiliation of rejection by being turned down? Of course not, so it's quite normal for most women to always expect a man to make the first move. And the second...and the third etc etc. So advantage goes to men with the emotional sensitivity of a housebrick as they're immune to humiliation.

The one thing I'm not sure of is that I think you *do* have to treat women differently then guy friends. Unless you regularly flirt with your guy friends, in which case, you should be OK treating them the same.


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19 Jul 2006, 4:07 pm

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ugh it's not the cocky "a**holes", in fact when a girl says her boyfriend is a "jerk" 9 times out of 10 its because she didn't get what she wanted and starts crying like a 3 year old. Not because the guy is truly 'a jerk'. Next many men of high value (good looks, personality, social status), have their pick of the women and are not needy... this is the biggest turn off to women: Needy nice guys.


I agree about women describing guys that way, I see it with my friends and their girlfriends when their girlfriends can't make up jump or say how high. Also neediness is always a turnoff, whether your a guy or girl.

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It's also a fact that the "nice guys" are losers in some way:

**They are boring people (limited interests)
**Socially inept (perhaps?)
**They are wusses around women (treat them different then they'd treat there guy friends or just strangers)
**They are too serious all the time
**Have no sense of humor
**Have no sense of adventure
**Are afraid of being their BEST selves, and expressing themselves they see inside their fantasies in their minds eye
**Are needy / in too much of need of validation and approval from other people or strangers
**Are not properly groomed / Bad hair / clothes / fashion sense

I could probably go on... but many "nice guys" need a good kick in the butt and stand up for themselves and stop SUPPLICATING women, thats the problem with those kinds of guys...


That might explain a lot of clueless guys who really don't know whats going on of have any self respect but its just as often true that a lot of guys tend to be too common-sense/logic oriented where what they're dealing with is animal instinct, its dominant instincts women are looking for and regardless of how self-respecting a nice guys is, if he could throw down in a fight if another guy messed with him, even if he doesn't supplicate women whatsoever - it's still not always enough. The miracle about AS is a lot of times it tares up your ability to think fast, sometimes it messes with your ability to spit out a good oneliner because your body-language (especially when overloaded) is horridly misunderstoof, atypical, and everything goes wrong because of that - when it's a physiological give-out point its really more disability than weakness of courage or will. Also I have my theory on boring, I think there are lots of people out there who's personalities don't fit the mold, they go through years of hardship over this, and in the end they realize they need to keep a lot of their best traits to themselves just because people in general aren't on the same emotional or perspective level (not saying they're above everyone else necessarily, just maybe to the left or right of the norm in the way they process things or experience life) - depth is also one of those things where it's been cited that a lot of the most couragious people who were the best leaders and greatest thinkers were some of the biggest social losers during peace time just because they're personalities where too vertically built (lots of depth but not socially broad) where as a lot of social butterflies are built with lots of social bredth, not a lot of depth, and it's the dog that yips the best who shines the brightest during mundane times where nothing of any real importance is going on. Not to say you don't have people out there who can't be both at the same time, just that so much of that is just how you're neurologically built and if your a natural introvert even knowing all the cocky funny lines, all the game, and knowing how to it probably won't help much unless your just real drunk and horny at a party looking for a one nighter. Neil Strauss talks about guys who are 'average frustrated chumps' and other than being obesquios or clingy they also have in common the fact that they want to personality shop women before they let themselves like someone whereas the game in general is only played right when your walk over and try smooth-talking a woman because she looks good - you know hardly anything about her and you've gotta hope that the way she vibed off to you means she has her head on straight or has a personality compatable with yours, some people have the energy, drive, and desire to go through all that and go through about 15 to 20 women before they happen on the right ones whereas taking that whole social exercise is extremely draining for others especially if not being themselves is something they aren't real practiced at.

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DO NOT TREAT A WOMAN ANY DIFFERENTLY THEN YOU WOULD YOUR GUY FRIEND OR YOUR BRATTY SISTER. Many women are not that wonderful to be around, period. Wussy guys should take charge more and dump women they don't like instead of being slave to their desire for sex.


Been doing that for years, and while that in and of itself hasn't done lots on its own I know for sure it's a vital component

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The fact is *real men* get laid, wussy guys who treat women like they are goddesses do not. the fact 'wussy' nice guys either 1) get their feelings involved way too fast or 2) have no clue how to vibe with women or 3) do not know how to show women a good time.

I'm sure the ladies in the thread can add their horror stories of lame "nice guys", who just didn't "get it".


Well, the major exceptions to that rule is if your a social butterfly backstreet boy who looks like Ashton Kutcher and hangs all over a girl, drools, and treats her like he's dirt beneath her feet it works - I've seen waiters do that to waitresses at work and I have to get myself away from it because just hearing them prostrate themselves like that makes me sick. It's really weird to see it work at all though but I guess looks, conformity, and social prestige can overcome the douchebag niceguy angles if they have em.

At the same time as well, you also have plenty of real men who don't get laid. Whether they're introverts, have too much sincerity wiring, really aren't comfortable with starting beef or going out of their way to show dominance just to prove a point - like I said, I don't think it's weakness so much as we just aren't all built the same. The unfortunate thing for guys who aren't built like players, sexual attraction on the other hand is only built one way. Dave DeAngelo one of the times when he was talking to Neil Strauss or Mystique on one of his cd's mentioned some of those 17th and 18th century writers who were all serious, philosophical, usually depressed about life, and talked about a woman who they loved but that the woman didn't even know he existed - they kinda joked about the idea that his techniques might unfortunately rid the world of some of the best poets, writers, and inventors just because it would have them getting what they wanted. My thought on that - if those guys had personalities like that, no amount of game would be able to save them. That kind of intelligence has a fatal flaw in the dating world - it's not an animal intelligence. The dating world is where we have to go back to our roots, as monkeys/apes/whathaveyou, and orient ourselves as completely as possible to have almost everything in a rather hidden way be centered around charming the opposit sex - if you've got too much human and too little ape in you it's like that parable of trying to get a camel through the eye of a needle.



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19 Jul 2006, 4:13 pm

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I think the main reason that many women fall for the meat-heads is that it's just easier for them (the women that is). Most people hate taking risks - would you want to risk the humiliation of rejection by being turned down? Of course not, so it's quite normal for most women to always expect a man to make the first move. And the second...and the third etc etc. So advantage goes to men with the emotional sensitivity of a housebrick as they're immune to humiliation.


LOl, too funny - I hadn't really looked at it that way for a while but that's another real good point.



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19 Jul 2006, 9:11 pm

You have to be firm with these women as if they were a friend you were concerned about. Don't be an emotional tampon for her; command her to break up with him. If she tries to find excuses "I can change him," convince her to the contrary. "Many women thought that before they found themselves shoved through wood chippers/stuffed in the trunk of a car/killed/raped/etc. Face it. You can't change him." "Here's what I want you to do. Break up with him by this date. If you fail, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you out otherwise."

Meh, bad advice is always fun.



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You have to be firm with these women as if they were a friend you were concerned about. Don't be an emotional tampon for her; command her to break up with him. If she tries to find excuses "I can change him," convince her to the contrary. "Many women thought that before they found themselves shoved through wood chippers/stuffed in the trunk of a car/killed/raped/etc. Face it. You can't change him." "Here's what I want you to do. Break up with him by this date. If you fail, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you out otherwise."

Meh, bad advice is always fun.


I like your advice. I shall use that in the future.

I'll have more comments later on. I have to get to work. :P



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ugh it's not the cocky "a**holes", in fact when a girl says her boyfriend is a "jerk" 9 times out of 10 its because she didn't get what she wanted and starts crying like a 3 year old. Not because the guy is truly 'a jerk'. Next many men of high value (good looks, personality, social status), have their pick of the women and are not needy... this is the biggest turn off to women: Needy nice guys.

It's also a fact that the "nice guys" are losers in some way:

**They are boring people (limited interests)
**Socially inept (perhaps?)
**They are wusses around women (treat them different then they'd treat there guy friends or just strangers)
**They are too serious all the time
**Have no sense of humor
**Have no sense of adventure
**Are afraid of being their BEST selves, and expressing themselves they see inside their fantasies in their minds eye
**Are needy / in too much of need of validation and approval from other people or strangers
**Are not properly groomed / Bad hair / clothes / fashion sense


Firstly, fitting some or all of the above description does NOT make one a loser, whether they are male or female. The number of interests one has does not determine whether they are universally boring or not. If someone like myself, say, has interests limited to TV stations and highways, then that will be boring to some individuals, but be fascinating to other individuals.

Sense of humour is also something that is individual. I have my own sense of humour that certain people love. Others would consider me to have no sense of humour. But that does not make me a loser.

You know why many of us guys have become needy of validation and approval from others? Because so many women have burned us alive and we're now petrified of getting fired from jobs or being humiliated in the community by women that freak out just from us looking at them the wrong way. In today's feminist man-hating world (particularly in the left-wing "rights" haven of Canada), men cannot afford to be too careful, because if they say hello to the wrong girl, they will become a demon in the community and no girl will go near them. Seeking approval from others nowadays is vital to survival, because those who don't care what others think often get in a lot of trouble. Example: A year ago I innocently touched a female co-worker who I believed was a friend of mine on the shoulder in the lunchroom. She reported it to management. Management told me they thought it was a stupid complaint. However, because of freaks like that, us men are doing everything in our power to avoid these situations. Some managers would've used such an incident to fire someone.

And, who cares about fashion sense? Everyone is an individual with their own style. Don't like it? Suck it up and learn to like it, bye.

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I could probably go on... but many "nice guys" need a good kick in the butt and stand up for themselves and stop SUPPLICATING women, thats the problem with those kinds of guys...

DO NOT TREAT A WOMAN ANY DIFFERENTLY THEN YOU WOULD YOUR GUY FRIEND OR YOUR BRATTY SISTER. Many women are not that wonderful to be around, period. Wussy guys should take charge more and dump women they don't like instead of being slave to their desire for sex.


Ah, the 1950s. It is a dream to be able to go back to that era. But now if you do that women clobber you with their feminst agenda. Women nowadays are demanding that guys treat them differently than they treat guys, and that they should stop being bossy and all those things. They keep demanding that we guys don't rush them into relationships. They keep demanding that we're not "forward" or "direct" with them. Some of us guys are standing up and giving the women what they say they want. We are the ones who march alongside them in street demonstrations against relationship violence. We are the ones that give them the respect they keep demanding. We are trying to reverse the statistics of relationship violence and murder. We are the ones that take it slow. We are the ones that don't tell them that we like them, even though we think about them all the time.

But women, for the most part, are lying! They may want some of these things on the inside, but in reality, as I've said before, they would rather be abused by a cool gangsta "real man" than respected by a so-called "loser" (although I resent that label). Women want it both ways. That is almost impossible. Guys that are both "real men" and highly respectful and kind do exist, but are rare.

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The fact is *real men* get laid, wussy guys who treat women like they are goddesses do not. the fact 'wussy' nice guys either 1) get their feelings involved way too fast or 2) have no clue how to vibe with women or 3) do not know how to show women a good time.

I'm sure the ladies in the thread can add their horror stories of lame "nice guys", who just didn't "get it".


There are no horror stories. And not all men are looking to get laid, myself included.



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