2 points from a nice guy:
1) It's not being nice that's keeping the girls away, it's what your covering up with that fascade. Are clumsy socially? Does your niceness read as fake or desperate? You can still be nice and not come off as all those negatives.
2) Then again. I have had more luck when the girl feels she needs to work a little for my affection.
Cheers

I agree. Being nice is too often equated with giving a lady what she wants. Not only does a lady often not know what she wants, but she doesn't want some guy constantly agreeing with her and anticipating her needs. You can be respectful of a lady without dumping wads of cash or being a wimpy yes-man. Any single guy will buy her a drink. Only certain men will make her laugh and earn her respect.

Hi, my name is Ruthie, and that's my article you're touting. I've written several articles on dating and gender conflict for my college's newspaper, and it't my understanding that if you want to republish it you should contact me, or the paper itself, and ask permission. I will be contacting your webmaster and my paper as well.

I'd also like to protest the fact that you've used this article completely out of context and only copied HALF of it. In the other half, I go on to point out to nice guys that they whine about girls who are high maintanence not being happy with them, when in reality they're going after the hott girls just like everybody else does and then complaining that she doesn't see their "inner beauty" or whatever it is guys have, when they don't do that to plain girls. That's hypocritical and annoying. Read the rest of the article and note that while I'm chastising girls for being contradictory, I'm also talking to guys who are being the same.

I'd like to point out that being "overly nice" isn't just boring, it's altruistic. Women, to the best of my understanding, don't like altruism in men because men with that trait are not likely to be successful. The most successful relationships are going to be give and take and well balanced. Nobody wants to be in a relationship where the "nice" favors are building into a deficit spending situation. Once anyone goes past "fair" it's hard to see the relationship as anything but abuse and in so doing it hurts self image.

This is the writer of the other, "equally telling" article in the Daily Aztec tempo section. In my article I did not say that niceness comes from ugly desperate guys. Rather, I made the point that women in general equate niceness with desperation.
If a man shows his interest with lots of nice gestures, gifts, expensive dates, etc. women often feel guilty, pressured, or any number of emotions other than those that men want the lady feeling: namely, like she is having fun and would like to do this again. That was why I made the point that niceness often comes off the wrong way.
However, I never once said that nice is a bad thing. Pulling out chairs, paying, occasional gifts (when earned), are fine. but it should be genuine, and the women should have to work for it, meaning you shouldn't shower her with attention when she hasn't done anything to deserve it.

It's not true that nice guys get rejected all the time, just up until their late 20's. See, a horrifying thing happens to late 20's/ early 30's women called "baby rabies". This is when a woman in the said age bracket either has a kid from a brief sexual encounter or marries the nice, emasculated guy and, evidenced by the recently dicovered 30% probability of paternity fraud, has a child from an alpha male; the identity of the child unbeknownst to the husband. Still, however, the everlasting niceguy foots the bill for "his" child and his strong independent wife before becoming homeless from the divorce and dying of a stroke in his late 40's.

That's hilarious. I've never heard of "babies rabies" I'd like to write an article on this phenomenon. . .tell me more.