Why do women deny being attracted to 'bad boys'?

They might deny it, but the truth is a good portion of women really do fall for the guys who could be described as "bad boys", "players", "assholes", etc...

Why do women deny being attracted to 'bad boys'?
Why do women deny being attracted to 'bad boys'?
Why do women deny being attracted to 'bad boys'?
Why do women deny being attracted to 'bad boys'?
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  • Personally I don't go for the bad boy bullshit, but if I had to guess I think it would have something to do with the idea of attaining someone unattainable. Having someone who's a complete ass and is in general very tough, but really sweet and vulnerable to you and you alone is a fantasy a lot of women seem to have, which isn't helped by the fact that a "bad boy" is also usually one hell of a sweet talker and can easily lull these girls into a false sense of security. There's also the fantasy of saving someone evil and turning them into a good person through sheer power of TLC; taming the beast so to speak. It's a lot of things really, mostly just unrealistic fancies of inexperienced, idealistic young women.

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  • I want a good guy who can hold his own, i think a mix is good.
    I think most women just like the excitement of a bad boy and are attracted more to them because they tend to be very confident charming and charismatic, where as lots of nice guys are more shy and don't put themselves out there as much.

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  • Unlike women, I admit - I love bad girls, because they are more likely to be dominant ;)

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  • we don't.
    I mean... most women will go for the guys who actually approach them. Which just so happen to be the type that self-proclaimed 'nice guys' sitting in the corner will call bad boys.

    • Really so your telling every guy here if they approached you, you would go out with them? Even if the looked like me? Fat and Unattractive?

    • @Uglyman1001 .. no. I have no idea how my saying that guys who actually talk to women have higher chances of success equated to me saying I'd date anyone.

    • But you said most women I assume you would be in that category? Are you admitting you only go after looks?

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  • If you mean bad boy as in characters like Fonzie or Johnny Castle, yes! I was never really attracted to preppy-pretty boys in high school or the uber-jock types. I was all about the alt-outcasts, punky skater dudes. Which I prefer "bad girls" as well, they're a lot more fun.

    • They mean a guy who is a dick to you, it's less about the style and more about them getting upset that girls don't go after "nice" guys like them.

    • @Gianna17 I was more or less being sarcastic with my response. But thank you for informing me about the obvious meaning. No, I'm not attracted to anyone mistreating others. Especially if they mistreat others for fun or no other valid reasons.

    • Sorry i can't detect sarcasm through texts. There's no tone of voice present so there's few ways to distinguish unless you are obviously saying something super ridiculous that no one would ever say. I don't know you personally so I don't know what you value.

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  • Probably because you are assuming that all women on the planet have somehow fused into a blob and that you think they are all the same.

    Questions like "why do women...", or "why do men..." are quite stupid and pointless.

    The women who are attracted to bad boys are NOT the same women who deny being attracted to bad boys. Just like the women who are against sexualizing the female body are NOT the same women who work as models, or work at Hooters.

    In fact, my answer probably applies to most of the questions on this site. The answer to your vote is that "SOME" women like bad boys, and "SOME" women like nice guys.

    You have assumed, and wrongly so, that all women think and act exactly the same, which is why your question is stupid.

  • Think it’s more of the feeling their behavior brings. A lot of women/ girls have this beauty and the beast fairytale look on love and Relationships and believe that relationships are supposed to have some sort of complications and hardships and that EVENTUALLY things will get better because he finally realizes that she’s someone worth holding onto. This is why so many allow themselves to constantly be treated poorly by the same guy over and over again.

    Also, most “assholes” are usually categorized as the guys who’ve never been properly loved and it causes us to put on this captain save a h*e cape and try to be the person we believe that person needs.

    99.9% of the time, the results are always the same and a lot of women would rather chase behind what they THINK they want because they already have feelings tied to it rather than going for someone they need. For instance, let’s say you start dating a girl who’s been through it with her last boyfriend. He cheated multiple times, disrespectful towards her, was verbally and emotionally abusive, etc. 9/10 it took her close to a year to finally leave this guy alone and there’s a HIGH possibility that he was the one who cut contact. She starts dating you, you’re putting in 100% effort trying to show her you wanna be with her than another 100% trying to make up for what he caused and doing everything he didn’t. 5 months later, he reappears in her life and now she’s back with him. She goes back because she has way more of an emotional attachment to him and ironically, with a lot of weaker females... being treated like shit makes them fall a lot faster

    The list can go on and on but that’s the main things.

    • It's awesome that you can actually admit to the harsh truths of the nature of attraction, the bit where you said a lot of weaker females fall a lot faster for those that treat them like shit. That's science baby.

      Any girl who acknowledges she's with a bad dude but thinks he's the beast, is seriously confused and naive though I think, as that dude is clearly Gaston. What happened to Gaston? He got dropped. He was thrown away. And the beast was chosen, embraced, and he became more cosmetically beautiful. Now his becoming more cosmetically beautiful is actually a metaphor I believe. See Gaston is.. http://bit.ly/2BuPSGf , yeah going for the classic example, and the Beast is, I dunno' I'll go with.. http://bit.ly/2BtiX54 that is one weird looking dude. But the thing is Gaston, as handsome as he is, turns out to be really flipping ugly, hence why he's dropped. And the beast, turns out to be beautiful. Amidst his large, hulking shape, hunchback and hairiness, she has seen that he has a be

    • autiful soul, and so he becomes beautiful in her eyes. So that transformation at the end, could be seen as a metaphor, for how someone becomes so damn attractive to an individual, so much that the individual is hugely aroused by thoughts of being with them sexually, the person is hot as fuck, because of the beauty inside. It's a huge, hulking, hunchback hairy dude but she sees him as a gorgeous handsome man, because of who he is. This is why the girls I am attracted to aren't the kind that influence the first impression of "hot! so hot!", but they become hotter than anyone else because of who they are and their personality. Personality, character, are the hottest things.

  • I believe women fancy men who are very confident, which often happen to be the most adventurous and "bad" to perception.

    Confidence is a trait often found in risky people (call them bad if you wish). Beware though that the more mature that person is, the less naughty he will be, yet still keeping that confidence and halo of "bad boy".

    That could also explain why normally women are more attracted to older men.