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		<title>By: Butterflies vs. Lead Weights</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-16004</link>
		<dc:creator>Butterflies vs. Lead Weights</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] never felt with him the same kind of crazy butterflies and sparkage I felt with prior alpha-male, bad boys. This, I believe, is an incredibly positive [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Work it</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-14210</link>
		<dc:creator>Work it</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] and 5. We spent a good amount of our time that day talking about everything from ex-management to bad boy complexes and facing your fears as a single [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Signa</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-11684</link>
		<dc:creator>Signa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok, stop all this nonsense for just one moment and consider THIS:  &quot;bad boys&quot; are often &quot;fun boys&quot; because they do what they want, when they want, whether anyone else likes it or not.  They may be nice guys (as Em has suggested) or assholes (as everyone else seems to suggest) but regardless of their personality they personify something women want -- FREEDOM; freedom to be who you want to be, to do what you want to do, and freedom from the feeling of obligation and fear of judgement that often prevents us from doing either.  

I&#039;ve met &quot;bad boys&quot; who are assholes, and I&#039;ve met &quot;bad boys&quot; who are absolutely good guys (and not in disguise...they really, truly ARE good guys) but they definitely had one thing in common -- they did a lot of FUN stuff and they didn&#039;t care what anyone thought about what they did.  My current husband (of 5 years now) is one of the really good &quot;bad boys&quot; -- pro-paintball player, street bike racer, firefighter, rock climber and more.  He&#039;s sexy (but not tattooed) and fun to be with BECAUSE he does everything that he loves to do -- and he&#039;s comfortable being who he is -- but he&#039;s definitely NOT an asshole....not to anyone.  He&#039;s a step-dad to my children (never had children of his own) and he&#039;s a better father figure than many &quot;real&quot; fathers.  He&#039;s a good provider.  He&#039;s sweet, but is adamant about what he believes in (but he&#039;s NEVER looking for a fight verbally or physically).....he won&#039;t argue with you if you want to argue....instead he discusses the difference in opinion without taking it or making it personal.  He&#039;s crazy -- he&#039;ll do just about any dangerous, adrenaline type sport he can find just for the thrill of it -- but he&#039;s definitely NOT a jock.  He&#039;s clean cut, but when you see him on his street bike you KNOW he&#039;s a bad boy....popping wheelies and stoppies and driving too fast and hanging out with a pack of guys on bikes.  

I think I have to go with Em here and say that &quot;bad boy&quot; does not automatically imply &quot;asshole&quot;.  Don&#039;t get me wrong -- I had that whole &quot;bad boy&quot; syndrome through my younger years and ALL of those bad boys WERE assholes.  But I&#039;ve grown up and my priorities are much healthier now -- I want that fun, exciting, crazy, sexy, no boundaries, no rules bad boy just as much now as I did then -- but assholes and drug addicts are on my black list.  Are good &quot;bad boys&quot; really out there?  They definitely ARE -- but YOU have to know what you&#039;re really looking for and that you&#039;ve only been getting it HALF right all this time.  So look for those bad boy qualities that you like (and if you don&#039;t know what they are then it&#039;s no wonder you&#039;re getting assholes) and walk away immediately from the guys with &quot;asshole&quot; and other undesirable qualities because that is not part and parcel of what a &quot;bad boy&quot; is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, stop all this nonsense for just one moment and consider THIS:  &#8220;bad boys&#8221; are often &#8220;fun boys&#8221; because they do what they want, when they want, whether anyone else likes it or not.  They may be nice guys (as Em has suggested) or assholes (as everyone else seems to suggest) but regardless of their personality they personify something women want &#8212; FREEDOM; freedom to be who you want to be, to do what you want to do, and freedom from the feeling of obligation and fear of judgement that often prevents us from doing either.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve met &#8220;bad boys&#8221; who are assholes, and I&#8217;ve met &#8220;bad boys&#8221; who are absolutely good guys (and not in disguise&#8230;they really, truly ARE good guys) but they definitely had one thing in common &#8212; they did a lot of FUN stuff and they didn&#8217;t care what anyone thought about what they did.  My current husband (of 5 years now) is one of the really good &#8220;bad boys&#8221; &#8212; pro-paintball player, street bike racer, firefighter, rock climber and more.  He&#8217;s sexy (but not tattooed) and fun to be with BECAUSE he does everything that he loves to do &#8212; and he&#8217;s comfortable being who he is &#8212; but he&#8217;s definitely NOT an asshole&#8230;.not to anyone.  He&#8217;s a step-dad to my children (never had children of his own) and he&#8217;s a better father figure than many &#8220;real&#8221; fathers.  He&#8217;s a good provider.  He&#8217;s sweet, but is adamant about what he believes in (but he&#8217;s NEVER looking for a fight verbally or physically)&#8230;..he won&#8217;t argue with you if you want to argue&#8230;.instead he discusses the difference in opinion without taking it or making it personal.  He&#8217;s crazy &#8212; he&#8217;ll do just about any dangerous, adrenaline type sport he can find just for the thrill of it &#8212; but he&#8217;s definitely NOT a jock.  He&#8217;s clean cut, but when you see him on his street bike you KNOW he&#8217;s a bad boy&#8230;.popping wheelies and stoppies and driving too fast and hanging out with a pack of guys on bikes.  </p>
<p>I think I have to go with Em here and say that &#8220;bad boy&#8221; does not automatically imply &#8220;asshole&#8221;.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8212; I had that whole &#8220;bad boy&#8221; syndrome through my younger years and ALL of those bad boys WERE assholes.  But I&#8217;ve grown up and my priorities are much healthier now &#8212; I want that fun, exciting, crazy, sexy, no boundaries, no rules bad boy just as much now as I did then &#8212; but assholes and drug addicts are on my black list.  Are good &#8220;bad boys&#8221; really out there?  They definitely ARE &#8212; but YOU have to know what you&#8217;re really looking for and that you&#8217;ve only been getting it HALF right all this time.  So look for those bad boy qualities that you like (and if you don&#8217;t know what they are then it&#8217;s no wonder you&#8217;re getting assholes) and walk away immediately from the guys with &#8220;asshole&#8221; and other undesirable qualities because that is not part and parcel of what a &#8220;bad boy&#8221; is.</p>
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		<title>By: Clearing the Mr. Man Air &#38; Morgan Siler</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-8786</link>
		<dc:creator>Clearing the Mr. Man Air &#38; Morgan Siler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] If a promise - to that magnitude - is broken so early on, and if you also happen to be a recovering bad boy addict and have a child, yes - you may &#8220;over react&#8221; or &#8220;run [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] If a promise &#8211; to that magnitude &#8211; is broken so early on, and if you also happen to be a recovering bad boy addict and have a child, yes &#8211; you may &#8220;over react&#8221; or &#8220;run [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Shadows &#38; Light</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-6158</link>
		<dc:creator>Shadows &#38; Light</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] fallen for men who love us the hardest in the beginning only to hurt us the most in the end - the bad boys, or just the boys who are clearly bad for us. Regardless, both of our internal compasses on men [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] fallen for men who love us the hardest in the beginning only to hurt us the most in the end &#8211; the bad boys, or just the boys who are clearly bad for us. Regardless, both of our internal compasses on men [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Nina</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-5301</link>
		<dc:creator>Nina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do think there is some atavistic throw back going on with bad boys, its why men are attracted to women with large hips - but I think its also what we are comfortable with...growing up my father was a work aholic (a man who loves his job is incredibly sexy to me till I realize it means no sex! ;p), unreliable, put others before me, talked big but never followed through (much like unreliable but slightly different)etc etc...ALL the men I&#039;ve fallen for are the same. so they might not look like him physically  (well my son&#039;s father does) but the way they treat me is what i&#039;m comfortable with and what I&#039;m working on not being comfortable with.  and its hard HARD HARD HARD because when they are nice and put me first I think something is wrong with them, I feel smothered, I distrust, etcetc...part of me doesn&#039;t believe I deserve that, part of me just doesn&#039;t know how to deal with and accept good treatment.  its a process...one I may never be done with but at least I see it now...it took me a long time to realize based on my family history that I&#039;m most comfortable with drama and selfish people as friends...working on that too! ;P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do think there is some atavistic throw back going on with bad boys, its why men are attracted to women with large hips &#8211; but I think its also what we are comfortable with&#8230;growing up my father was a work aholic (a man who loves his job is incredibly sexy to me till I realize it means no sex! ;p), unreliable, put others before me, talked big but never followed through (much like unreliable but slightly different)etc etc&#8230;ALL the men I&#8217;ve fallen for are the same. so they might not look like him physically  (well my son&#8217;s father does) but the way they treat me is what i&#8217;m comfortable with and what I&#8217;m working on not being comfortable with.  and its hard HARD HARD HARD because when they are nice and put me first I think something is wrong with them, I feel smothered, I distrust, etcetc&#8230;part of me doesn&#8217;t believe I deserve that, part of me just doesn&#8217;t know how to deal with and accept good treatment.  its a process&#8230;one I may never be done with but at least I see it now&#8230;it took me a long time to realize based on my family history that I&#8217;m most comfortable with drama and selfish people as friends&#8230;working on that too! ;P</p>
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		<title>By: What makes him so irresistible ?</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-5283</link>
		<dc:creator>What makes him so irresistible ?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] listed. Good stuff! I&#8217;m telling you. Progress, my friends, I&#8217;m making major strides. Bad Boys Be Gone! [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] listed. Good stuff! I&#8217;m telling you. Progress, my friends, I&#8217;m making major strides. Bad Boys Be Gone! [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Recovering bad boy addict here.</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-4742</link>
		<dc:creator>Recovering bad boy addict here.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] hadn&#8217;t told her of my bad boy complex [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Em</title>
		<link>http://mssinglemama.com/2008/08/15/the-bad-boy-complex/#comment-3920</link>
		<dc:creator>Em</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok, I&#039;m a bit late with it, but here&#039;s my answer for this article...

Now, I&#039;m gonna be using a couple ball-park figures for this, but just go with it...


To make this alot easier, lets just say that the world is divided in 2 equal parts - Men and Women...

Now lets say, that the men are divided into 2 equal parts - &#039;Bad Boys&#039; and &quot;Normal Guys&#039;...


Ok, so 50% of the guys are Bad boys, and the other 50% are your ordinary okes who have the normal jobs and pretty much all the non-&#039;Bad Boys&#039;...


Now I&#039;m gonna divide it even further:

Of the Bad Boys, Lets say that 50% of them are good people, and the other 50% are the assholes (bad people)...

Then, of the Normal guys, Lets say that 50% of them are good people, and the other 50% are the assholes (bad people)...


Ok, now that we have an extremely rough idea of how the male half of the world is divided up, lets continue...


So, as I said in my previous post, the women are attracted to the assholes who treats women like shit...
Hence, if we remove the tag of &quot;Bad Boy&quot; or &quot;Normal Guy&quot;, and the guys were judged on nothing more then personality, we can assume that the women will be attracted to 50% of the men (the assholes - and for those that don&#039;t follow the math, the assholes are made up of 50% Bad Boy, and 50% Normal Guys... and the other 50% of each are good okes...)


Now, it&#039;s pretty clear that the women are attracted to good looking guys, and as alot of the women have said in this article, in general, Bad Boys are better looking then the average man...
So, based on that, if we exclude the personality completely, and the women rate the guys on nothing more then their looks, I&#039;m gonna assume that after the voting is complete, the group that was chosen as &quot;Physically Attractive&quot; will comprise of a majority of Bad Boys (due to the fact that women don&#039;t deny being more physically attracted to Bad Boys and the Bad Boy image)

So don&#039;t get me wrong, I&#039;m just using figures that are easy to work with... So no offence to anyone who takes my numbers as fact, but as I said earlier, they are all just Ball-park figures...

So now lets say, the group that was chosen as &quot;Physically Attractive&quot; by the women is 75% Bad Boys, and 25% Normal Guys....


Ok, so i hope everyone follows everything I&#039;ve said so far...


Now, I think it&#039;s pretty much common knowledge that a person will be judged on theis looks before their personality, and this is mostly due to the fact that it takes only a second or two to decide if you think someone is physically attractive, but it can take hours, days, weeks, or even months to analyse someone&#039;s personality... And because of this, when a guy approaches a girl, she&#039;s pretty much made up her mind on the oke before he even spits out his first word to her, and she has decided whether or not she will give the guy a chance, based primarily on his looks...

Now, obviously there are exceptions to this, but if we run this whole thing based only on my figures, we can assume that 50% of the men that approach women will be turned down straight away (the 50% that were voted as physically un-attractive), and 50% of the guys will be given a chance (the 50% that were voted as physically attractive)


That leaves us to assume that, of the 50% of the men that were given a chance by the women, 75% of them were bad boys, and the other 25% were Normal Guys (for those that don&#039;t follow the math, I&#039;m saying that only the physically attractive men were given a chance by the women - because they judge the okes looks before his personality... Then as I said earlier, the physically attractive men are split into 75% bad boys, and 25% normal guys... So on those grounds, 75% of the men that are given a chance by the women are Bad Boys, and the other 25% are normal okes...)


Ok, so i think it&#039;s been pretty easy to follow so far...


But now, once the guys are given a chance by the women, the females start to analyse the guys personality...
At this point, we can assume that 50% of the guys will be thrown out (the 50% of guys that are nice people, because the women are attracted to the assholes, so the 50% that remain is the asshole half.)

Ok, so where are we now?

I&#039;ll break it down:

Of the initial 100% of the men, 50% were cut out immediately because they weren&#039;t in the 50% of the physically attractive men...

That left us with only 50% of the men still in play...
Of that 50%, 75% of them were Bad Boys, and 25% of them were Normal Guys...

Then, based on personality, another 50% were cut out...
It was the 50% that were the &quot;Nice Okes&quot; who were cut out, and the 50% that stayed were the Assholes...

So now, were sitting with only 25% of the original men...
Of that 25%, 75% of them are &quot;Bad Boy Assholes&quot;, and the other 25% are &quot;Normal Guy Assholes&quot;...


And this brings us to the point where women get fed up with their men being assholes, and they dump all the assholes...


Now this is the important part, so I hope you&#039;ve noticed what has happened?

Here is the reason that &quot;Bad Boys&quot; are given a bad name:
Once the final 25% of the men got dumped for being assholes, 75% of them were Bad boys, and only 25% of them were Normal guys...

So what happens?

The &quot;Bad Boys&quot; are given a bad name... 
Because the final batch of  &quot;Assholes&quot; was made up of 75% Bad Boys, and only 25% Normal Guys, everyone assumes that in the world, if you chose all the assholes, 75% of them would be Bad Boys, so Bad Boys are known as Assholes, and the 25% of normal Guys where were in the Asshole group are forgotten about because they were the minority...
But, if you remember my first calculations, 50% of the Assholes in the world are Bad Boys, and 50% of the assholes are Normal guys... But due to the selection process of the women, more men from the 50% of &quot;bad boys&quot; in the world make it to the final batch of &quot;Assholes&quot; then the 50% of &quot;Normal Guys&quot;...


I really hope everyone got that!
I explained it as clearly as I could, and I don&#039;t think I could&#039;ve made it much easier to understand...



So now, I&#039;ve covered the reason for Bad Boys getting so much bad publicity, and such a bad reputation in spite of them having the same break down percentages as the Normal guys... Then only thing that seperates them is that Bad boys are generally more physically attractive in the eyes of the women, and That is what makes all the difference...



Now, onto why women are attracted to the Assholes...

I thought about this quite alot, and I&#039;ve heard alot of things like: 
&quot;If the girl had a dad who abused her, then she&#039;ll be attracted to men who treat her the same way as her father.&quot;

or

&quot;If a girl has a low self-esteem and she thinks of herself badly, then she&#039;ll be attracted to guys who treat her like shit coz she thinks that&#039;s all she deserves.&quot;


In my opinion, all of those are complete bullshit...

I can&#039;t buy any of those reasons, so I had to come up with my own...

And this is what I got:

If you look anywhere (schools, work places, businesses, clubs, anywhere), you can instantly pick out the Popular guys... You can see the guys who have alot of friends, and the guys who get alot of attention - aka &quot;The Popular Guy&quot;...

And you can ask any male you find, and everyone will have the same answer: &quot;The popular guys are dicks!&quot;
And thats the truth... The popular guys are always the ones who pick on the less popular okes in an effort to gain respect and popularity...

Now, you might ask, &quot;what makes these Popular guys &#039;Popular&#039; among the other okes if they treat their peers so shitty?&quot;

The answer is simple: People would rather have 5% of something then 100% of nothing... And the same thing applies here... A man would rather just be the &quot;popular guy&#039;s&quot; sidekick then be one of the people that the &quot;popular guy&quot; picks on..

So all the guys wanna be friends with the Popular guy (the asshole) because they think that they will be looked at as &#039;Cool&#039; and &#039;Popular&#039; as long as they aren&#039;t being picked on by the &quot;popular guy&quot;...

And That, ladies and gentlemen, is why the popular guy (aka &quot;The Dick / Asshole&quot;) is popular...


Now, I think you&#039;re starting to see why the women are attracted to the assholes? - because they are the popular guys...

And why is a women attracted to the &quot;Popular Guy&quot;?
- For pretty much the same reason that the guys wanna be friends with him - Becuase nothing makes a girl more popular than if she is dating the most popular oke! 

Everyone wants to be liked, and the more liked you are, the more popular you are... And people will do almost anything for a taste of that popularity!

So all the guys wanna be friends with the &quot;Popular Guy&quot; because they want popularity... 
And all the girls wanna date the &quot;Popular Guy (aka &quot;The Asshole&quot;) because they want the popularity...


So there you have it!

I&#039;ve told you why I think women are attracted to &quot;Assholes&quot;...

And I&#039;ve told you how &quot;Bad Boys&quot; get a bad reputation due to the fact that women like &quot;assholes&quot;, and women like the look of &quot;Bad Boys&quot;...



I really hope that all of this makes sence and that I didn&#039;t leave anything out...
And sorry for any spelling errors, I was typing fast, and I tend to make a couple of mistakes when I do...


So yea, let me know what you think of my findings...

Take Care People!

Cheers...


Em...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, I&#8217;m a bit late with it, but here&#8217;s my answer for this article&#8230;</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m gonna be using a couple ball-park figures for this, but just go with it&#8230;</p>
<p>To make this alot easier, lets just say that the world is divided in 2 equal parts &#8211; Men and Women&#8230;</p>
<p>Now lets say, that the men are divided into 2 equal parts &#8211; &#8216;Bad Boys&#8217; and &#8220;Normal Guys&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>Ok, so 50% of the guys are Bad boys, and the other 50% are your ordinary okes who have the normal jobs and pretty much all the non-&#8217;Bad Boys&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;m gonna divide it even further:</p>
<p>Of the Bad Boys, Lets say that 50% of them are good people, and the other 50% are the assholes (bad people)&#8230;</p>
<p>Then, of the Normal guys, Lets say that 50% of them are good people, and the other 50% are the assholes (bad people)&#8230;</p>
<p>Ok, now that we have an extremely rough idea of how the male half of the world is divided up, lets continue&#8230;</p>
<p>So, as I said in my previous post, the women are attracted to the assholes who treats women like shit&#8230;<br />
Hence, if we remove the tag of &#8220;Bad Boy&#8221; or &#8220;Normal Guy&#8221;, and the guys were judged on nothing more then personality, we can assume that the women will be attracted to 50% of the men (the assholes &#8211; and for those that don&#8217;t follow the math, the assholes are made up of 50% Bad Boy, and 50% Normal Guys&#8230; and the other 50% of each are good okes&#8230;)</p>
<p>Now, it&#8217;s pretty clear that the women are attracted to good looking guys, and as alot of the women have said in this article, in general, Bad Boys are better looking then the average man&#8230;<br />
So, based on that, if we exclude the personality completely, and the women rate the guys on nothing more then their looks, I&#8217;m gonna assume that after the voting is complete, the group that was chosen as &#8220;Physically Attractive&#8221; will comprise of a majority of Bad Boys (due to the fact that women don&#8217;t deny being more physically attracted to Bad Boys and the Bad Boy image)</p>
<p>So don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m just using figures that are easy to work with&#8230; So no offence to anyone who takes my numbers as fact, but as I said earlier, they are all just Ball-park figures&#8230;</p>
<p>So now lets say, the group that was chosen as &#8220;Physically Attractive&#8221; by the women is 75% Bad Boys, and 25% Normal Guys&#8230;.</p>
<p>Ok, so i hope everyone follows everything I&#8217;ve said so far&#8230;</p>
<p>Now, I think it&#8217;s pretty much common knowledge that a person will be judged on theis looks before their personality, and this is mostly due to the fact that it takes only a second or two to decide if you think someone is physically attractive, but it can take hours, days, weeks, or even months to analyse someone&#8217;s personality&#8230; And because of this, when a guy approaches a girl, she&#8217;s pretty much made up her mind on the oke before he even spits out his first word to her, and she has decided whether or not she will give the guy a chance, based primarily on his looks&#8230;</p>
<p>Now, obviously there are exceptions to this, but if we run this whole thing based only on my figures, we can assume that 50% of the men that approach women will be turned down straight away (the 50% that were voted as physically un-attractive), and 50% of the guys will be given a chance (the 50% that were voted as physically attractive)</p>
<p>That leaves us to assume that, of the 50% of the men that were given a chance by the women, 75% of them were bad boys, and the other 25% were Normal Guys (for those that don&#8217;t follow the math, I&#8217;m saying that only the physically attractive men were given a chance by the women &#8211; because they judge the okes looks before his personality&#8230; Then as I said earlier, the physically attractive men are split into 75% bad boys, and 25% normal guys&#8230; So on those grounds, 75% of the men that are given a chance by the women are Bad Boys, and the other 25% are normal okes&#8230;)</p>
<p>Ok, so i think it&#8217;s been pretty easy to follow so far&#8230;</p>
<p>But now, once the guys are given a chance by the women, the females start to analyse the guys personality&#8230;<br />
At this point, we can assume that 50% of the guys will be thrown out (the 50% of guys that are nice people, because the women are attracted to the assholes, so the 50% that remain is the asshole half.)</p>
<p>Ok, so where are we now?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll break it down:</p>
<p>Of the initial 100% of the men, 50% were cut out immediately because they weren&#8217;t in the 50% of the physically attractive men&#8230;</p>
<p>That left us with only 50% of the men still in play&#8230;<br />
Of that 50%, 75% of them were Bad Boys, and 25% of them were Normal Guys&#8230;</p>
<p>Then, based on personality, another 50% were cut out&#8230;<br />
It was the 50% that were the &#8220;Nice Okes&#8221; who were cut out, and the 50% that stayed were the Assholes&#8230;</p>
<p>So now, were sitting with only 25% of the original men&#8230;<br />
Of that 25%, 75% of them are &#8220;Bad Boy Assholes&#8221;, and the other 25% are &#8220;Normal Guy Assholes&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>And this brings us to the point where women get fed up with their men being assholes, and they dump all the assholes&#8230;</p>
<p>Now this is the important part, so I hope you&#8217;ve noticed what has happened?</p>
<p>Here is the reason that &#8220;Bad Boys&#8221; are given a bad name:<br />
Once the final 25% of the men got dumped for being assholes, 75% of them were Bad boys, and only 25% of them were Normal guys&#8230;</p>
<p>So what happens?</p>
<p>The &#8220;Bad Boys&#8221; are given a bad name&#8230;<br />
Because the final batch of  &#8220;Assholes&#8221; was made up of 75% Bad Boys, and only 25% Normal Guys, everyone assumes that in the world, if you chose all the assholes, 75% of them would be Bad Boys, so Bad Boys are known as Assholes, and the 25% of normal Guys where were in the Asshole group are forgotten about because they were the minority&#8230;<br />
But, if you remember my first calculations, 50% of the Assholes in the world are Bad Boys, and 50% of the assholes are Normal guys&#8230; But due to the selection process of the women, more men from the 50% of &#8220;bad boys&#8221; in the world make it to the final batch of &#8220;Assholes&#8221; then the 50% of &#8220;Normal Guys&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>I really hope everyone got that!<br />
I explained it as clearly as I could, and I don&#8217;t think I could&#8217;ve made it much easier to understand&#8230;</p>
<p>So now, I&#8217;ve covered the reason for Bad Boys getting so much bad publicity, and such a bad reputation in spite of them having the same break down percentages as the Normal guys&#8230; Then only thing that seperates them is that Bad boys are generally more physically attractive in the eyes of the women, and That is what makes all the difference&#8230;</p>
<p>Now, onto why women are attracted to the Assholes&#8230;</p>
<p>I thought about this quite alot, and I&#8217;ve heard alot of things like:<br />
&#8220;If the girl had a dad who abused her, then she&#8217;ll be attracted to men who treat her the same way as her father.&#8221;</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>&#8220;If a girl has a low self-esteem and she thinks of herself badly, then she&#8217;ll be attracted to guys who treat her like shit coz she thinks that&#8217;s all she deserves.&#8221;</p>
<p>In my opinion, all of those are complete bullshit&#8230;</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t buy any of those reasons, so I had to come up with my own&#8230;</p>
<p>And this is what I got:</p>
<p>If you look anywhere (schools, work places, businesses, clubs, anywhere), you can instantly pick out the Popular guys&#8230; You can see the guys who have alot of friends, and the guys who get alot of attention &#8211; aka &#8220;The Popular Guy&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>And you can ask any male you find, and everyone will have the same answer: &#8220;The popular guys are dicks!&#8221;<br />
And thats the truth&#8230; The popular guys are always the ones who pick on the less popular okes in an effort to gain respect and popularity&#8230;</p>
<p>Now, you might ask, &#8220;what makes these Popular guys &#8216;Popular&#8217; among the other okes if they treat their peers so shitty?&#8221;</p>
<p>The answer is simple: People would rather have 5% of something then 100% of nothing&#8230; And the same thing applies here&#8230; A man would rather just be the &#8220;popular guy&#8217;s&#8221; sidekick then be one of the people that the &#8220;popular guy&#8221; picks on..</p>
<p>So all the guys wanna be friends with the Popular guy (the asshole) because they think that they will be looked at as &#8216;Cool&#8217; and &#8216;Popular&#8217; as long as they aren&#8217;t being picked on by the &#8220;popular guy&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>And That, ladies and gentlemen, is why the popular guy (aka &#8220;The Dick / Asshole&#8221;) is popular&#8230;</p>
<p>Now, I think you&#8217;re starting to see why the women are attracted to the assholes? &#8211; because they are the popular guys&#8230;</p>
<p>And why is a women attracted to the &#8220;Popular Guy&#8221;?<br />
- For pretty much the same reason that the guys wanna be friends with him &#8211; Becuase nothing makes a girl more popular than if she is dating the most popular oke! </p>
<p>Everyone wants to be liked, and the more liked you are, the more popular you are&#8230; And people will do almost anything for a taste of that popularity!</p>
<p>So all the guys wanna be friends with the &#8220;Popular Guy&#8221; because they want popularity&#8230;<br />
And all the girls wanna date the &#8220;Popular Guy (aka &#8220;The Asshole&#8221;) because they want the popularity&#8230;</p>
<p>So there you have it!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve told you why I think women are attracted to &#8220;Assholes&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>And I&#8217;ve told you how &#8220;Bad Boys&#8221; get a bad reputation due to the fact that women like &#8220;assholes&#8221;, and women like the look of &#8220;Bad Boys&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>I really hope that all of this makes sence and that I didn&#8217;t leave anything out&#8230;<br />
And sorry for any spelling errors, I was typing fast, and I tend to make a couple of mistakes when I do&#8230;</p>
<p>So yea, let me know what you think of my findings&#8230;</p>
<p>Take Care People!</p>
<p>Cheers&#8230;</p>
<p>Em&#8230;</p>
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		<dc:creator>Em</dc:creator>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know if you&#039;ve seen Wedding Crashers?

But if you have, then i can prove my point...

Sack Lodge (the cocky guy who is dating the rich guys daughter)... His real name is bradley cooper...

But in the movie, sack lodge is an arrogant ass-bag who is a complete dick head and treats women like shit - but he&#039;s not a &quot;bad-boy&quot;

You see, women are for some unknown reason attracted to guys like that... It doesn&#039;t matter if he&#039;s a built guy with tattoos and rides bikes - aka the &quot;bad boy&quot;, or if he&#039;s a &#039;successful&#039;, wealthy, business man, women are attracted to guys who treat them like sack lodge from wedding crashers...

So i&#039;ve come up a with a good idea here, and i think it&#039;s extremely accurate, and truthfull, and i think it&#039;s the real answer to this thread...

And i would love to tell you, but i&#039;m using my cell phone to type this, and i can&#039;t use my computer right now coz the power is out... And i can&#039;t use my cell phone, coz the message will be too long, and i don&#039;t feel like typing out another novel on my phone... So i&#039;ll say it tomorrow, or later when my power comes on... 
But it is definately worth listening to, coz i really think it&#039;s the truth...
 
So yea, untill next time...

Cheers...

Em...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve seen Wedding Crashers?</p>
<p>But if you have, then i can prove my point&#8230;</p>
<p>Sack Lodge (the cocky guy who is dating the rich guys daughter)&#8230; His real name is bradley cooper&#8230;</p>
<p>But in the movie, sack lodge is an arrogant ass-bag who is a complete dick head and treats women like shit &#8211; but he&#8217;s not a &#8220;bad-boy&#8221;</p>
<p>You see, women are for some unknown reason attracted to guys like that&#8230; It doesn&#8217;t matter if he&#8217;s a built guy with tattoos and rides bikes &#8211; aka the &#8220;bad boy&#8221;, or if he&#8217;s a &#8217;successful&#8217;, wealthy, business man, women are attracted to guys who treat them like sack lodge from wedding crashers&#8230;</p>
<p>So i&#8217;ve come up a with a good idea here, and i think it&#8217;s extremely accurate, and truthfull, and i think it&#8217;s the real answer to this thread&#8230;</p>
<p>And i would love to tell you, but i&#8217;m using my cell phone to type this, and i can&#8217;t use my computer right now coz the power is out&#8230; And i can&#8217;t use my cell phone, coz the message will be too long, and i don&#8217;t feel like typing out another novel on my phone&#8230; So i&#8217;ll say it tomorrow, or later when my power comes on&#8230;<br />
But it is definately worth listening to, coz i really think it&#8217;s the truth&#8230;</p>
<p>So yea, untill next time&#8230;</p>
<p>Cheers&#8230;</p>
<p>Em&#8230;</p>
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