Solomon said:
Zekko you have never had a woman try to take advantage of you for being "kind"?
Well, I've had women try to press me into orbit before, when I was young and inexperienced. But as far as wanting to borrow $100 to pay their rent, wanting me to paint their house, or something like that, no not really.
A couple of things though:
1) I've never made any claim of being "kind". I'm actually fairly selfish, although I'm not proud of that.
2) People can only take advantage of you if you let them. When I was raised, you were taught not to let people disrespect you.
Anyway, if you look at your example, you might notice your story contains no real instance of you being "kind". The closest to being kind I can find is that you approached her in the first place - but Tyler Durden says this is being "@ssholish".
"However even being kind, women take that for weakness. I see it in their eyes all the time when I approach them. Their eyes light up and I know what their thinking"sucker". They think this because, I'm not suppose to approach them(according to them, cause im not in their league, pfft)! they then ask me "You should buy me a drink?" lo and behold when I say no their expession are priceless"
I'd also say that I don't think a woman asking you to buy her a drink is necessarily taking advantage of you. Maybe it's the only way she knows how to get to know you. I have seen girls take advantage of guys this way though - asking them to buy her a drink, then taking off with it into the crowd without so much as a thank you, laughing all the way.
Solomon said:
this is the level I wanna get back too, being fat and "kind" will not get you know where and being a jerk won't either
Between "fat" and "kind", I'd say "fat" is the problem.
PairPlusRoyalFlush said:
you're double my age, maybe that's why it's less prevelant in your life. I don't mean all women but a lot. Where do you think the nice guy/bad boy dichotomy comes from? I swear there is a lot of contrarians around here these days...
I'm the leader of the contrarians
Seriously, I'm not going to swallow any line of bullsh!t someone hands me just because some pickup guru decided it was true.
Anyway, I don't believe in the nice guy/bad boy dichotomy, at least not on the face of it. For several reasons:
1) First off, the "Nice Guy" PUAs talk about is not a nice guy at all, rather he is a simpering, manipulative, supplicating, pedestalizing wimp with no balls. That has nothing to do with being genuinely "nice", "kind", or respectful of other people's right to exist.
2) I've never lost a girl to a bad boy type. If they are so irresistable, why hasn't this happened? In fact, I've taken girls from bad boy types. Bad boys are losers, that's how I see them.
3) There is a type of girl who goes for the bad boy type, but these girls are low quality gutter trash. They are not the type of girls I go for. I'm sure the clubs that PUAs frequent are full of these girls though. I'm fairly picky about the type of women I hang out with.
4) PUAs would have you believe that any display of confidence makes you a jerk. I reject this line of thinking completely. Confidence, masculinity, and bold action make you a man, not a "bad boy". They are good traits, not "bad". And it is better to be a "man" than a "boy" in any case. A real bad "boy" is immature by definition.