Dating jerks

Ok, so it seems that my most recent posts didn't get much attention/reaction from everyone. Apparently a happy version of me isn't very interesting. Or maybe it's just something about blogs, because I have to admit that the ones that I enjoy to read the most are those that have some complaint in them, perhaps it has that universal appeal. Who knows, either way this blog was in part encouraged by that part of my mind that wants to complain, you know, the part of me that always thinks I'm always right.

So of late I've been thinking about relationships a good bit. Not that I'm actually in any kind of relationship, and though I think I want to be in one I can't really figure out why that is at the moment. I have realized that it has been a near constant topic of conversation with some friends down here. One of the topics that was brought up by a male friend was that he's sick of being the nice guy. He's tiered of treating girls nicely, being a gentleman and somehow getting nothing from it. All the while he sees these jerks getting the girls, and essentially treating them like shit. Now this is something that I can relate to, hell to be honest I saw this pattern in elementary school. The tough guy/bully/idiot always seemed to get the girl. At the time I distinctly remember thinking, "when they get older they will be smarter and not go for the jerks, I'll have my chance then". Well, I'm almost 28, my friend is 30, so when are girls going to stop dating the jerks? (no we aren't trying to date 16 year olds)

Now I have to pause her for a moment. After all a number of girls read this page, at least I would like to believe that. And many of them have boyfriends, I think most probably do, most of those guys I am friends with and would not consider them to be jerks. So obviously there are exceptions. Just the same, I'm still going to rant, if I'd had a blog when I was 10 I would have ranted then, but I don't think the Apple IIe was internet ready.

Now I don't think I need to go into much detail as to what kind of jerks there are out there that women will date, either you're a girl and you've dated them, you’re a guy and you've been passed over for a jerk, or you are a jerk and you keep getting girls and I hate your guts. But I did have an interesting conversation with a friend who claimed that she doesn't date jerks. Being the gentleman that I am I didn't correct her at the time, but the last 3 guys she dated were/are all jerks! One still tries on occasion to hook up with her even though he has a girlfriend at the moment.

So how does a girl who obviously has recently dated a string of jerks manage to claim that she dates nice guys? This just goes to show that women will date jerks yet somehow, even though they acknowledge that they have dated jerks, they will claim to date "nice guys". Or perhaps girls can't see the guys as jerks until they have dated them, though I could have spotted most of these guys as being jerks from the outset.

So I don't really know where I'm going with this post at this moment. I'm not looking for some miraculous answer to why the jerks keep getting the girls. After 18 years of hoping I've pretty much given up on the idea that girls will stop falling for the jerks. So I'm trying to figure out how to be a jerk, since that seems to be what I'm missing in order to get/keep the interest of a girl. It's either that or I keep going with my current method which has netted me about a half dozen girlfriends (depending on how you want to classify them) in 18 years. So though that averages one every three years the fact remains that the longest relationship was about 3 months. Hell I know that jerks have had longer relationships than that.

But I'm sure the plan to be a jerk would fail at some point. I would do something stupid, like fail to make a sexist joke, forget to kick a puppy, not swear ever other word, or worst of all I may actually ask the girl what she thought/wanted/likes. So I'm pretty much screwed...wait, I'm not screwing, that's the problem...anyway you know what I mean. I probably won't try to act like a jerk, I think CMac has a lock on that one, but deep down he is a good guy, and somehow the girls see that (or maybe it's the stench of desperation?). Anyway for any of you single girls out there reading this wondering which jerk you should date next, do me a favour. Look at your friends, figure out which one hasn't in some way done something typically jerky (jerkish, jerkily...who do you conjugate that word?) and give them a shot. You may just find that they are in fact the nice guy that you've been saying you want to find. Here's one last tip to help identify them, he's the guy who you talk to about all the jerks you've dated, unless of course he's gay, but you get the idea.