That one time Dumbing of Age shamed a male character for turning down sex with a woman, then its readers called him a Nice Guy™.

Notice how the character’s desire not to have sex is portrayed as less important than the woman’s desires. Also, the “Nice Guy™” stereotype is “a guy who thinks he’s entitled to sex for being nice” - and it’s almost invariably sex, not a relationship - while the non-strawman use of the term is really “guy who’s told by women or believes that he has romantically desirable qualities but has difficulty receiving romantic attention”.

Plasma Mongoose even points out that the situation was exactly what a stereotypical Nice Guy™’ supposedly wants, yet completely fails to notice the significance of the fact that the character did not respond by having sex with the woman. He wasn’t hoping for some greater reward later, he was honestly concerned with her wellbeing. It’s almost as if he didn’t fit the stereotype of only being nice to get laid at all!

So, yeah, David Willis is a sexist, misandrist hypocrite, and his readers are idiots. No surprise there, really.

Previously, previously, previously, previously.

EDIT: It’s been pointed out that the white guy is effectively being shamed, in a comic by a feminist, for not wanting to have sex with a woman who did not provide enthusiastic consent. Which, according to many feminists - but not all - is pretty much a requirement.

And, I’m sorry, this is really bugging me; a “Nice Guy™” supposedly provides emotional care and support "niceness" to female friends in the hopes that she’ll bang him someday. This guy is being offered sex, and he turns it down out of concern for her wellbeing. That is the exact inverse of a stereotypical Nice Guy™. The only reason I can think of for the mistake is that the readers recognized the aspects “sex”, and “a man claiming to care about a woman’s wellbeing” and mapped it onto the nearest concept they could find that had those elements, even if they were in the wrong positions.

The closest thing to a valid defense of this strip is claiming that it’s not shaming him for turning down sex, it’s shaming him for having a poor reason to turn down sex. Except, even according to feminist arguments, he has a perfectly good reason. He’s actually doing exactly what many feminists say people are supposed to do. Also, the strip is clearly saying he was wrong not to bang her, which is Not Okay regardless of what basis people make the decision on (“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” sort of thing.). If Willis disagreed with people’s interpretation of the strip as saying that, he probably would’ve simply said so in the comments.