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Good Girls Prefer Bad Boys (1,947 reads)

posted Sat, 06/13/09

By Lisa Daily

We've all done it at one time or another. We whine to our friends about the lack of nice available guys, and then, when given the choice between a nice, sweet (safe) guy and a (dangerous)bad boy who makes our toes curl, we invariably go for the toe-curler. The heartbreak-waiting-to-happen. The bad boy.

Doesn't make any sense, does it?

I recently received a letter from a sweet guy who wrote,

"I've been looking for some insights to what women are looking for, because from my perspective, they often go for that which they complain about most!

Got any advice for us men?"

Baby, you hit the nail right on the head.

There's good news and bad news for all you nice guys out there. Your day will come. It just won't be today. Once she passes through her bad boy phase then you'll get your chance.

Nearly all women go through some period in their lives when they're swept up by a bad boy. The Navy Seal with the amazing bod and the mental prowess of a fruit plate. The Harley guy with mean beard stubble and an attitude to match. The Josh Hartnett look-alike who makes us feel like the center of the universe, and then puts the moves on our roommate the minute we leave for the ladies room.

We can see these guys coming a mile away, and yet we fall for it every time.

Why?

Part of us actually like to believe we can be the one girl to turn this wild man into a pussycat. We like that down-to-our-toes thrill, the excitement of something we KNOW is bad for us. (Like chocolate cheesecake, and Jimmy Choo shoes.) We are just gluttons for misery.

Most women (not all) actually grow out of the bad-boy phase once we hit our mid-twenties. Our girlfriends start to couple off, and we start wondering if we used up our nice guy quota in college when were still torturing men for sport. That's where you come in, Mr. Sweet Guy. Because you're the guy we really want. Just not today, but be patient because your day will come.

Here's my advice for all the nice guys:

Remember what we were wearing on our first date. Give romantic gifts on birthdays and anniversaries (and remember flower-mandatory holidays such as Valentine's Day.) Get what we're all about. Let us know what you're all about. Kill any bugs that sneak into the kitchen. Give us your coat when it gets chilly outside. And remember there's a fine line between being a nice guy and being a doormat - don't take any crap from us.

After all, you don't want to be a good boy in love with a bad girl.

 

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1. Dave left...
Wed, 10/26/05 9:15 pm

So ladies, should we be patient and wait for you to grow out of the bad boy stage in your life?


2. Kitty left...
Wed, 10/26/05 9:36 pm

OMG! Are you still harping on about this! Who was she and what the hell did she do to you? I'll find her and beat her to death with a base ball bat unless she apoligises ok?


3. Dave left...
Wed, 10/26/05 9:42 pm

>>OMG! Are you still harping on about this!<< hey kitty, it’s my blog and I’ll harp if I want to. ;)


4. Dave left...
Wed, 10/26/05 9:45 pm

Hey even Christian girls are hot for bad boys. Ask Alex


5. Ali left...
Wed, 10/26/05 10:06 pm :: http://www.freeloadmp3.com/

Lol. Dave that's like saying they should wait for us while we screw hookers and wild out in our 20's. It's just not right.

Basically this article says let them have their wild fun and then be their "mr concellation prize" once they have sowed their royal oats.

I would comment further but I'm about 99.9% sure someone will say I'm just being negative. But hey, the article is kinda outrageous, someone is bound to say something about it.

I think it's a damn shame when women, in their quest for equality, knowingly adopt the bad habbits of men, which they themselves have scrutinized for years for this kind of behavior.

"After all, you don't want to be a good boy in love with a bad girl."

I will say this though...bad gravitates consciously and consistently towards bad. Pay careful attention to the choices people consistently make in their lives. It's a better indicator of how they will treat you than what they tell you from their own mouth.


6. Ali left...
Wed, 10/26/05 10:11 pm :: http://www.freeloadmp3.com/

Kiki - how much do you charge for a Tanya Harding style beat down? lol


7. Ali left...
Wed, 10/26/05 10:26 pm :: http://www.freeloadmp3.com/

"Hey even Christian girls are hot for bad boys. Ask Alex"

I guess there is something primal in each of us that makes us attracted to certain things. But at some point upbringing or common sense is supposed to come in and smack us in the face to wake us up. "Bad! Bad!". Sometimes I guess we don't listen, as the article states. I think though that when we knowingly chase what we know is bad or unhealthy we kind of loose the right to complain when things get ugly. Eventually hopefully we learn our lesson.

The question to put to anybody, is, what makes us think that after sowing our royal oats and behaving like wild animals, that we deserve somebody who is good and nice? I'm sorry but you don't just come to the dinner table after rolling around in the mud outside. Go clean yourself up and make sure to use soap and scrub!

We deserve to be with somebody similar to what we are in character. So the "wild ones" who try and settle down with somebody "safe" later...that's not a fair scenario because THEY'RE DEFINITELY NOT SAFE! Usually, the "safe" person deserves better, and the "wild" person knows it.


8. Adrian left...
Wed, 10/26/05 10:28 pm

>>Lol. Dave that's like saying they should wait for us while we screw hookers and wild out in our 20's. It's just not right.<<

>>Basically this article says let them have their wild fun and then be their "mr concellation prize" once they have sowed their royal oats.<<

I totally agree with that statement. Guys, just find you a female who likes you for you NOW!!!

Vice-versa for the women. No one should sit around and wait for someone else to screw around, then pick you.

>>I will say this though...bad gravitates consciously and consistently towards bad. Pay careful attention to the choices people consistently make in their lives. It's a better indicator of how they will treat you than what they tell you from their own mouth.<<

I've gotten to the point where I just sit back and observe situations. Watch who she chooses, how her past boyfriends, or male "friends" were.

Usually she leaves a record. Just don't get to hung up on trying to get involved in a relationship. Do something constructive with your time.


9. Dave left...
Thu, 10/27/05 5:36 am

My favorite bad boy attraction posts come from women like Lisa Daily.


10. Bad Boy Police left...
Thu, 10/27/05 12:03 pm :: http://www.freeloadmp3.com/

Bad Boys have Bad Boy Germs. And the women who sleep around with bad boys get those bad boy germs. And the guys who these women settle down with...whoooo...you'd better get her medical records, buddy! STD Hell!


11. Wiseguy left...
Thu, 10/27/05 12:29 pm :: http://www.freeloadmp3.com/

I don't think the "good girls" who love bad boys are all that good. I think it's an act, and the phenomenon you see and are puzzled about is their true colors shining thru. They want to be rewarded for this badness too because in the end they still think they deserve the happy ending with the captain-save-a-chick kinda guy to do all those nice things for them that they seek. Sorry "good girls", we see right thru you. You deserve being stuck with the "The Navy Seal with the amazing bod and the mental prowess of a fruit plate" until he looses his six pack and becomes an alcoholic. Because that's the counterpart of what the nice guy who gets fooled by these women gets stuck with...a washed up has-been.

When your prime is wasted on flings and one night stands and dead end ill fated meaningless relationships, your husband just gets the scraps and a bad attitude from you.

Acting good but doing bad = you are not good.

To be fair, it's the same thing when guys do this crap too. People seem to waste their prime years on chasing pieces of meat that they will never see again. Those are their BEST years to find somebody worth something and they just squander it, then cry later when they are older, fatter and desperate to find a mate. Booo-hooo-hooo.


12. Xena left...
Wed, 08/01/07 9:14 am

Like they say, go for the bad boy and he will also diminish your very lifeforce. Bad boys are an addiction for quite a few women. Even when with a nice guy they will have affairs with the badboy and nice guy gets the leftovers time and time again. The badboy always has the best of both worlds. Remeber nice guys will always finish last!


13. charley left...
Wed, 08/01/07 12:36 pm

I think those women who like bad boys are bad girls, period. Some of them may masquarade as good girls, but they aren't. They're bad girls.

FYI - the baddest girl I ever met I met in church. One of the nicest I met in a bar. Sometimes people defy the odds.

There's good, bad, and in between girls in church, and they're very difficult to indentify who is who because they're under social and religious pressure to either be good, or appear to be good. So some of them are wolves in sheep's clothing.

In a bar, I do think mostly you'll find bad girls, but sometimes there might be good girls and in between ones too. However, in a bar, they are under social pressure to either act more slutty to gain social acceptance, or they go the opposite way and have a barrier up to protect them from guys there, which is understandable.

So neither church or a bar is a good place to see how a woman (or a man) really is.

The library, coffe shop, the grocery store, etc are better places to see how someone really is because they're free to be themself without religious, family, or peer pressure, safety concerns, etc interfering with their interpersonal interactions. i.e. - they can be more open and honest about who they are.


14. charley left...
Wed, 08/01/07 12:49 pm

Hey, for what it's worth, over the years I've turned down the opportunity to sleep with a couple bad girls because once I could actually get them, the attraction turned to fear. Why? Because I started imagining all the nasty diseases and coodies they might give me. Imagining all the bad boys they've slept with, and some of those guys I wouldn't want my dog to lick, let alone a woman I'd be with later.

I did sleep with one bad girl, and I was freaked out about it for a long time afterwards imagining all the nasty ass things I might have caught from her. I finally went and got myself checked out. That was embarrassing and humiliating. Ever have a doctor run a long cue-tip up your penis? That hurts. I won't even go into all the other stuff they did while checking for various icky things.

I didn't have any VD or coodies from her, but I just got lucky. No, I didn't use a condom either. If I was that smart, I wouldn't have toucher her at all.

To all the guys who want bad girls, but can't get them, think very carefully about what you want, because you just might get it. Bad girls are best left to the bad boys who don't care if they get sick or die over a one night stand with someone who never cared about them anyway.

Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.

For me, I like nice girls and combo girls now. The combinations ones are my favorites, as long as they're at least 2/3 good girl or more. I'd call that nice, but a little naughty and fun, yet still safe(r).


15. charley left...
Wed, 08/01/07 12:58 pm

"Remember nice guys will always finish last!"

That's only true with bad girls, and any "good girl" who is really bad. There's plenty of good women who can't stand bad guys and prefer good ones.

I'm perfectly happy to finish last with bad girls because I don't want them anymore. They aren't good enough for me.


16. Ali left...
Thu, 08/02/07 3:42 am

"Bad boys are an addiction for quite a few women. Even when with a nice guy they will have affairs with the badboy and nice guy gets the leftovers time and time again. The badboy always has the best of both worlds. Remeber nice guys will always finish last!"

Wow thanks for the motivation! *sarcasm*


17. woodsmen left...
Thu, 08/02/07 9:34 pm

Many women are really messed up when it comes to men they choose. It's like some women think it's ok to use a nice guy for the mental part of a relationship and then use the bad boy for the sex. I have been on the mental side many times. We do that to a woman and we are called users. Yet a woman does that and she claims there are no nice guys and everyone feels sorry for her. Does any body feel sorry for the nice guy? Hell no! we are whiners and complainers that need to change.

  • I have seen many "nice girls" stay with bad boys. They were so insecure and shy that they felt they could only get that one guy. These women were attractive, I even tried to ask one out (failed of course) She had a boyfriend, but I swore she was giving me the green light. She turned out to be really shy and had the same off and on boy friend for 10 years. She was very pretty yet she didn't think so. Do nice guys finish last? yes. Why? Because the so called "winners" are stuck in loveless relationship because they hook up with the wrong people feeling like they have no other choice. I'm starting to think that the nice guy is just smarter then the average male and doesn't want to be in a relationship that is doomed to fail.


18. D left...
Mon, 06/30/08 12:45 pm

I got it!! You've got to be 'Bad' but 'Nice' at the same time! Works every time for me!!