You might, but not all of us are that shallow or moral-free.

That does sound pretty terrible. How about just hanging out and going dutch? That way if it's not boring for both of you you can do it again.

Agreed. Not only no sympathy, but active disdain.

Not shown: the 100000 women who turned this douchebag down flat, wankmobile or no wankmobile.

Why do you think you're owed a beautiful woman when you are yourself not beautiful?

Cognitive dissonance theory, and associated research, suggests that we like people more when we give a gift to them, rather than them liking us more. So he's basically just dooming these guys to bouts of unrequited love.

The only useful purpose I can see for this article is to challenge the extremely popular misconception that only men are successful in STEM disciplines.

How about we leaving coming up with new treatments to the researchers, who have the resources to exhaustively test said treatments, rather than allow doctors to use their patients as guinea pigs?

"ludicrous", unless you mean this has something to do with rap.

Yes, that. And it takes a nice guy (not a Nice Guy, a genuinely nice guy) and tells him that any lack of success with women he might have is because he's being nice, and the only way to be successful is to be an asshole.

In an informal comments section? No, I am ready.

Except that in your "example" the answer has nothing to do with the question, whereas one of the main point in the original article — and something the interviewee is almost certainly responding to — is that one of the problems was that the bosses were "sexist pigs". So it's not a very good example.

It's a personal research project, I'm not quite ready to share the findings just yet.

You mean Nice Guy. Not at all. There are a lot of those around.

In fiction? Plenty. Outside of fiction? Can't say for sure, but not enough to warrant becoming a type.

No inside information, but I choose to go by the testimony of the only eyewitnesses we've heard from so far rather than invent a narrative.

Yeah, but the bosses were the problem in the first place. Take them away, you might expect things to change, but they're saying that they haven't.

Guess you don't work in the video game industry, because otherwise you'd know how easy it is to fake demos.

And some people will, when asked, respond honestly about a toxic work environment, and then have 1000000 Kotaku commenters jump on them because "eww feminism".

No, it sounds like the "boys club" mentality depicted in the previous article hasn't been dispersed yet.