Baggy, your rant about romantic comedies is true, but I think you've missed the point of "why" women love them....
Its about the full on PURSUIT of HER by a man who loves and wants only HER. No one else will do for him. She is his Venus, and he will pursue until he gets her (and hopefully forever after, too). Whether he's the nice guy or the bad boy, its his pursuit of her that makes a romantic movie give her all the "mmmm" feelings.
In nearly every romantic comedy, the hero (whether nice or bad) goes through some kind of challenge in order to win her, or at a minimum, he breaks through a wall of his own - which is very heroic, too (think When Harry Met Sally).
My personal fave romantic comedy - My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Why? Because it didn't follow the standard formula of:
Boy meets girl Boy loses girl Girl meets another boy Boy has to chase off other boy and win girl back
Instead, Wedding goes like this:
Boy meets girl Boy pursues girl Boy wins girl Boy and girl are married and live happily ever after.
And - although the hero in Wedding appears to be somewhat nice, he also shows the capacity to be a bad boy in certain scenes, and more than this, it CLEARLY indicates GREAT passsion between the two of them.
This is what - IMO - women actually want. To be pursued forever by a man who truly loves her, but he's gotta be a MAN, not a nice guy.
