Is this a normal reaction?

It's a shame that guys like this sort of ruin it for other guys in the OLD world. A couple of years ago I heard from a guy in a city 4 hours away from me. He was completely unappealing to me in every way, and I decided to use the "I don't do long distance" reason. I got a nasty-gram back--he even went on to brag about how successful he is financially and that a woman would stand to inherit all of his money when he dies (WTF??). And here I thought I was being nice. After that, I just no longer responded to men I wasn't interested in. And how do you say, "You are physically unappealing to me" without being hurtful? And we all know that physical appearance is very important to men (after all, don't we hear over and over and over again that men are more "visual" than women? As if women aren't "visual" too.)

I often hear that men have a hard time getting women to respond to them with OLD, and I think this is a big reason why. I think a lot of men also have an over-inflated opinion of their desirability. I hear from lots of boring, fat, uneducated men, and I'm sorry, it's just not gonna happen. In fact, I am on hiatus from OLD right now.

Not normal and it's good you find out now and not later when you are emotionally invested.

I had an experience with a man that was kind of similar.