Rex Kerr
1 min readJul 6, 2024

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And I didn't say anything about good men at all!

Your title is, and I quote, "Nice Guys Finish Last Because They’re Not Actually Nice".

But you don't talk about guys who are actually nice. You talked about a not-actually-particularly-nice guy pretending to be nice. And sure, that happens (a lot). But that's not what you said you were going to talk about!

There's a way to indicate that you're using a term that doesn't mean what it says: you use quotes. "Nice Guys" Finish Last Because They're Not Actually Nice.

Otherwise it looks like your claim is that there aren't genuinely nice guys, only ones who expect that a little superficial politeness means that you'll have sex with them.

That's only one of various "guy who appears 'nice'" phenotypes. There are the overly strictly-nice-by-the-rules ones, the nice-but-a-bit-withdrawn ones, etc..

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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