I was raised to be very polite and respectful and understanding towards people, especially womenfolk. (Bloody Liberal parenting

)
I don't feel like I have anything to hide - especially personality wise. I think sometimes I come off as rather creepy or something, but it's nothing I can help. To be quite frank, I generally find myself to be extremely witty and charming in person.
Anyways, my success with women has been absolutely non-existant (wasn't this thread about male/female relationships to begin with? After poking about the entirity of the thread, I can't quite remember

). I tend to accumulate a lot of girls as friends, but everytime I ask if they want to take our relationship any further, I always get a very surprised and definite 'no' of some variety or another. My idea of courtship is more along the lines of holding doors and being a 'good-listener' and making people laugh and trying to be generally pleasant to be around (and not to mention abusing the fuck out of the word 'and' and generating unnecessarily-obtuse run-on sentences), but the girls I fall for invariably go for the type of guy who slaps them on the ass and starts giggling like a moron the first time they meet, which I could understand if they were generally more physically attractive than myself, but that doesn't usually seem to be the case.
Anyways, I don't really understand the dynamic at all, but I'm sure I'll get a grip on it eventually. I'd imagine it boils down to something along the lines of appearing weak/lacking courage/whatever; not that I'd ever even begin to accuse myself of lacking courage.
That said, I certainly know at least one person who uses excessive niceness and agreeability to sort of pressure people into liking him. I feel bad for the kid... he's a complete pathalogical liar, like to the point of desperately needing to see a therapist about it, as he can't keep a friend for more than a month. I don't doubt that it's not uncommon for people to adopt a front of absolute generosity and pleasantness to hide their deep-seeded (deep-seated?) insecurities, but I fancy it's at least somewhat rare among we polite males.
[edit] I propose we begin a petition to have bluelight's standard tongue-out smiley icon changed to something more playful and less bitter-looking, such as -
. Isn't that much nicer?[/edit]