Debunking the ‘Nice Guy’ Trope. Do They Really Finish Last?

They’ve been lying to you, your whole life!

“Women don’t like nice guys”

“Nice guys finish last”

“Why do nice guys finish last.”

“Nice guys bring the flowers, but the bad boys light the fire.”

“Good guys always seem to end up in the friend zone”.

“Girls love bad boys, but they marry nice guys”

Well, sit down, stop your whining, and listen up. I’m gonna launch some vicious truth bombs on that dense noggin of yours.

If you’ve lived under a rock most of your life, “nice guy syndrome” is when a man believes that just by being nice to a woman automatically entitles him to her affection and attention.

But as we all know, real life doesn’t work that way. It’s like expecting a home run just because you’ve swung the bat. But as any baseball player can tell you, there’s a lot more to the game than that young fella.

In fact only 3–4% of MLB players even get a home run from swinging the bat.

Let that sink in.

I get a decent amount of nice guys telling me that the real issue in dating is that the world hates “nice guys.” They’ve tried being…