What is BORING?

BORING is the Brotherhood of Rejected Intelligent Nice Guys.

Founded in 2006, BORING is designed to provide opportunities for social networking, and to be a forum for mutual support, for those members of our society who most need these things: the nice guys. 

Those of us who are intelligent nice guys are well aware of the fact that those whom our society would consider "hot women" find us boring -- hence the name of our organization.  We believe that the nice guy is all too often under-appreciated and overlooked. 

True, many of us are geeks, or nerds, or both, and so we may find a girl who owns the "Firefly" DVD's to be hotter than an anorectic waif whose frail body is only kept upright by the fact that her completely vacuous cranium is lighter than air.  Unfortunately those sexy, nerdy girls with their extensive sci-fi libraries, careers in science, strong personalities, and super-hot smart-girl "librarian" eyeglasses are few and far between. 

And yet, though what we truly want is not the sterotypical "trophy wife" that our cookie-cutter society holds up as an ideal, each of us in the Brotherhood still feels the constant sting of rejection as those shallow, superficial girls turn away, point and laugh, avert their eyes or cross the street to avoid us.  We know in our hearts that they are wrong, but it still hurts.

If only she knew the truth, we think.  If only she realized that the geeky nice guy would treat  her like a queen and appreciate her, while Joe Schmuck, whom she is dating now, is probably stealing money from her purse at this very moment so that he can buy a present for his other girlfriend.

If only she knew that our very niceness, our consideration, our thoughtfulness and gentleness, make us so much better suited to being a husband and a father than the guy she's with.  What's he got that we haven't, we wonder.  Not a good job.  Not money in the bank.  Not a meaningful contribution to bettering society.  Aside from his criminal record, the only answer is, he's got her. 

Sure, we're boring.  But it's time to take ownership of that.  It's nothing to be ashamed of!  We'll be boring and darn proud of it.  We're not just boring.  We're BORING - the Brotherhood of Rejected Intelligent Nice Guys.