The “Nice Guy” Defense on Bones

We’re all familiar with the stereotypical “nice guy” who complains that “women” don’t appreciate him because he’s too nice, women only date jerks, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. Of course it’s sexist from the start because the guy’s making claims about women as a monolithic group, but these guys generally display a host of other behaviors that are certainly not “Nice.”
So I couldn’t help but laugh as I was watching Bones the other night, and the killer’s self-professed motive was that the victim didn’t appreciate him, only wanted to date good looking jerks, and that he was too nice of a guy for her to want to date. Which was why he brutally murdered her, after which he kept insisting, “But I’m a nice guy!”

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