I stopped and had a chat with the fellow in the comic shop today. Its quite amazing. Nice Guys(TM) are so formulaic. I felt like shaking him and saying “Get a grip man! You’re a CLICHE!”

He’s a nice fellow, but somewhat misguided. I scored Bingo on the Feminist Comic Bingo Card during a half hour conversation. He is quite sympathetic to the Feminist cause, but calls himself a masculinist, and I am afraid that when he started the regular Nice Guy(TM) trope about how girls are more attracted to arseholes I smirked, and rolled my eyes.

Women aren’t more attracted to arseholes, they are just conditioned to put up with shit, and so they end up going out, and staying with whoever asks, and usually the arsehole is there asking while the NiceGuy(TM) is too busy watching 300.

I do not know a single truly nice man that is single, except for those who choose to be so either temporarily or permanently. I think that really fabulous men tend to get snapped up pretty quickly, and because our society seems to spend an inordinate amount of time shaming single women, the girls that don’t manage to hook up with a treasure, often feel pressured to go out with whoever asks, instead of waiting for more men to try harder, and be nicer.

I quite like the fellow in the comic shop, he’s nice, and I look at him as a kind of hatchling feminist… DC’s Elseworld comics woke him up to what feminists are ‘whinging’ about in comics.

I’m losing patience and tolerance for idiots and arseholes though. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me on everything, but I think that it is reasonable to expect a certain minimum standard of behaviour from my friends, and from now on people in violation of those standards probably wont see me much. I’m too busy. I’ve got work to do.