Why do nice girls date guys who are jerks?

[Peasant Phill]

Jerks have generally more confidence. It's as simple as that without going into antropology.

[Moros]

What Peasant Phill and Psycho say, really.

The nice guy is all about self pitty and no confidence. In a way they are as egocentric as the jerk, but are to lazy to try to get some and thus go out hating the world for the fact they don't get any.
Before you can love someone else, you've got to love yourself (and I don't mean your right or left hand). 'The jerk' is very good at that. But of course they are to big of a jerk for long time relationships and the likes.

[Hooahguy]

Mission accomplished.

[naut]

Mission accomplished.

Thanks for proving my point.

[LeftEyeNine]

Oh Pooah guy...

Ze jerks are demanding. They want someone and go for it. Women, through ages and definitely still on nature's command, respond to demands. They exist to be picked, chosen, shown off for to date/mate.

Ze women who go after money, cars, or whatever nice guys blame women to be drooling for with a man are yet another example of how nature still is dictating them: Go after the physical environment that will ensure the continuation of your species via the most powerful "vehicle" possible. Of course majority of such women are not dreaming of having babies with those guys but the rule of the attraction still is there administering women subliminally.

Ze jerks are playful, chaotic, demanding and in most cases polygamic which ensures the female of his must-be manly qualities seeing he had attracted other females already.

Ze nice guys always bear the habit of "oh how would she react to this ? may she think i'm an , oh boy, better be keeping it as where I am now" aaaaaand...Tada ! Ze jerk is the winner.

The physical beauty of women generally rings bells of innocence and a sturdy will to stay so whereas women hardly fall under such characteristics.

9 cents.

[Strike For The South]

women don't go for jerks, some girls may confuse and conflatre aggresive bravado as confidence but women don't tend to date jerks,

However one can be confident and assertive without being a jerk.

[stratigos vasilios]

I would imagine it'd be a fantasy of 'taming' a wild boy.

[Arjos]

That's horse rubbish, Psychonaut's post is bulletproof: all about confidence...