Disclaimer: This is not intended to be a black women bashing thread. I have love for all black women and I am just asking a question that has perplexed me for as long as I remember. Ladies, I would like your input just as much as I would like the fellas input. 
Ok fam. We've all gotten our laugh on this Christmas thanks to LES's thread and Ten's devious ass bumping his year old thread. However, the thread sparked an interesting question. Why do women, especially black women, prefer players and thugs over "nice guys"?
Speaking from personal experiences, I was once the "nice guy". I was raised solely by my mother, who I adored, and she taught me all about being respectful, loving, and caring towards other women. When I was old enough to start pursuing girls, this is how I carried myself towards them. From about 11 to 16, I was the nigga writing poems, opening doors, and just being an overall good dude to chicks thinking that's what they want (moms is never wrong right?).
Needless to say, that shit got me nowhere. Around 15/16 I started hanging out with older cats, listening to there stories, and they schooled me on what I was doing wrong. The niggas that treated girls like absolute shit had to beat them off with a stick just to walk the streets. At the same time, I began listening to my mother and her friends when they in the crib sippin E&J, and I would always hear them talking about how a nigga was too nice for them, and they wouldn't be calling them back.
I collected all this info, and rearranged my whole steez. Of course, when I stopped taking chicks calls, talking to other broads right in front of the chicks that I was messing with, and acting like a complete asshole, my dating life did a complete 360.
To make a very long story short, I'm out of the dating game and happily married, but that question has never left my mind. Why do a lot of women like to be treated like shit? And fellas, when did you realize that the "nice guy" role wasn't cutting it, and what did you do about it?

Ok fam. We've all gotten our laugh on this Christmas thanks to LES's thread and Ten's devious ass bumping his year old thread. However, the thread sparked an interesting question. Why do women, especially black women, prefer players and thugs over "nice guys"?
Speaking from personal experiences, I was once the "nice guy". I was raised solely by my mother, who I adored, and she taught me all about being respectful, loving, and caring towards other women. When I was old enough to start pursuing girls, this is how I carried myself towards them. From about 11 to 16, I was the nigga writing poems, opening doors, and just being an overall good dude to chicks thinking that's what they want (moms is never wrong right?).
Needless to say, that shit got me nowhere. Around 15/16 I started hanging out with older cats, listening to there stories, and they schooled me on what I was doing wrong. The niggas that treated girls like absolute shit had to beat them off with a stick just to walk the streets. At the same time, I began listening to my mother and her friends when they in the crib sippin E&J, and I would always hear them talking about how a nigga was too nice for them, and they wouldn't be calling them back.
I collected all this info, and rearranged my whole steez. Of course, when I stopped taking chicks calls, talking to other broads right in front of the chicks that I was messing with, and acting like a complete asshole, my dating life did a complete 360.
To make a very long story short, I'm out of the dating game and happily married, but that question has never left my mind. Why do a lot of women like to be treated like shit? And fellas, when did you realize that the "nice guy" role wasn't cutting it, and what did you do about it?
