I was just having a discussion, because after reading too much about how the male race basically consists of jerks who treat their girlfriends badly, I felt that I needed to discuss the issue. Almost all relationship jokes consist of some form of male-bashing one way or another.
Guys are thick, they don't get the hints, they are egoistical, insensitive buffoons, motivated primarily by self-interest. In addition, they are always checking out new propsects, on top of being lecherous, smelly, hairy, slimy and I dunno what else la. Read the list guys, and weep. Ok maybe not. Act macho and unaffected perhaps. And thick, clueless, egoistical, blah blah blah...
Are there no good guys left in the world?
So basically, the main point of the discussion was, why do girls like to fall for jerks? Aren't there nice guys around?
And you won't believe the kinds of answers I got. My hypothesis was that girls were naturally not very clever because they didn't know how to sieve out the bad guys from the good when I would think that there are many nice guys around. I wouldn't go so far to say that I am one of them, but yeah I'd like to think of myself as not being a jerk.
I asked Pamy why girls like to fall for jerks. She told me "haha erm well cuz they dont seem like jerks at first". Well ok that's just a another way to say they were good looking, rich, glib or all of the above and hence nothing else mattered, the fact that they were jerks and have shitty character notwithstanding. She then went away and I decided that she had said enough on her part, so I asked someone else.
So I asked Sarah why girls like to fall for jerks. She told me "because the good guys are gay". So I asked her, if I'm not gay and I'm not a jerk, what am I? And guess what, she pulled a new category out of the hat called "commitophobe", which she went on to label "scum".
Great, so now I'm "scum". Being naturally not very happy, I went on asking more questions. I told her that I'd rather be "scum" than a jerk or gay. Guess what she said?
"I think jerk is better than scum. At least girls fall for you"
I will honestly tell you that at that point I was lost for words. Jerks and women are a match made in heaven.