Male or Female friends???

Discussion in 'Women's Forum' started by GreenButterflyDaisy, Mar 16, 2005.

  1. feministhippy

    feministhippy Member

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    My two closest friends are a girl I've known since 4th grade and her boyfriend, who I've known since 8th grade. So I'm even.
     
  2. AutumnAuburn

    AutumnAuburn Senior Member

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    I'm too sexual... My best friend cannot be male, unless he is my boyfriend. I can have aquaintances that are male, but not close friends...
     
  3. t-dub

    t-dub Pass me the pepper

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    i have a few close girl friends, but i get along with guys better....

    sometimes, girls make me want to stomp them in their heads! i cant stand some of them!
     
  4. ArtistofPeace

    ArtistofPeace Senior Member

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    I basically only have guy "friends." The only real girl friend I have is my sister. I used to have 2 best friends who were girls but we fell out of touch for stupid reasons. I don't have any incredibly close friends now. My closest is my boyfriend who's my best in the whole world. But anyway, I just don't find girls that I care to know, and I just find guys easier to get along with. I'd kinda like to have a friend who's a chick. I haven't had that in so long. It's kinda sad 'cause if I meet someone who's kinda cool to talk to, I end up sounding like a kindergartener going "I met this girl today. She was nice..." lol. But anyway...even if I meet nice girls, it's hard to initiate a real type of friendship...probably because deep down I know it won't go anywhere anyway. Plus, friendships can take work. I like when things happen naturally and there's a real connection that just takes care of itself.
     
  5. feministhippy

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    I don't really have a lot of friends. I feel uncomforatable around a most people, and I think that translates to some people as "I don't like you". Shame, really, because I actually like most people I come across. It's just difficult for me to approach people and talk to them. I'm very relaxed on stage, though.

    But I'm not really picky based on gender, though. As I said, I like most people I come across.
     
  6. Dustystar

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    Its so interesting to hear most of the females say that most of there friends are males. I'm the same way, but I'd love to make more female friends. I pulled away from a group of girls that I thought were very hazardous to my mental health, but I'm always open to make new girlfriends. The few that I do have-- 3 to be exact--- r all diff. and gr-8. I'm confident that there are more girls out there like them. But for now I'll prob. be hanging with my boys! Gotta love them!
     
  7. lynsey

    lynsey Banned

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    Usually guys but i've been enjoying the company of women a lot more lately.
     
  8. Amanda's Shadow

    Amanda's Shadow Flower Child

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    i have friends of both sexes and i love all of them :)
     
  9. bedlam

    bedlam Senior Member

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    l get along with men better..
     
  10. _see_

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    my best friend is a girl...and i think the reason we get along so well is because to be serious friends with other girls for us does not work for some reason. dont get me wrong girls that are just aquaintences love us and we get along fine...but about 90% of the peeps we hang with our guys. i feel so comfortable around them...with girls its all about competition and and bitchiness behind ppls backs...its like if a a guy doesnt get on with someone they stop hanging around with the person they dont get along with...but with girls its like "i hate you and will backstab you the moment you turn around, but lets still hang out"
     
  11. Utopia_Erwtje

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    sometimes I think that I'd rather have no friends... they always want to meet and most of the time I just think: leave me alone... but at the other hand, I love my friends... why is life so complicated?????????????????
     
  12. culture_revolution

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    Usually my spare time outside of school is spent with boys but i do have some good girlfriends aswell, but outside of school contact is not as much. I click easier with boys, there is just something that we have in common. Maybe becuase I'm loud and i have been told by my guy friends that some girls are intimidated by me, which i think it weird. But the girl friends that i actually do have are just like me, so we make a super loud team of fun.
     
  13. Bellfire01

    Bellfire01 I'll say anything

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    I like guys mostly. I'm not attracted to ladies. I can have a lady for a friend but I use to hate it when people would call them my girlfriends. It would make me grindge.(I don't feel like girlfriend is my type of term just like guys don't call guys their boyfriends. I can hang out with ladies and talk for a while but then some ladies will make me feel out of place while others will bore me. I do have a couple of friends that are girls but I just like guys better. I can do more with them lol.;)
     
  14. mynameiskc

    mynameiskc way to go noogs!

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    just about all my friends have been male since i got breasts first. something about boobs really scared off all my girlfriends, while the guys who were my friends seemed to take it with equanimity. not that other boys didnt cause me trouble, but my boy-friends were always cool about it. then as i got older, for some reason i feel less pressure to perform like a circus animal in front of men than i do in front of women. i can be myself without having to put on that tea-party social veneer. now that i'm getting older, and the women seem to be shedding their images and donning their personalities, we get along much better. i've always got along better with women in their 30s and above, so now that they're becoming my social circle, i'm much happier around them. girls and young women tend to be way too hard on other women, so i just ignored them until we were able to get along.
     
  15. DancerAnnie

    DancerAnnie Resident Beach Bum

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    I have a total of zero female friends. I had one or two friendships with females growing up, but exclusively, Ive always had male friends. I think it was because I always hung out with my male cousins growing up, plus I had an older brother. I knew how to be myself around males and girls just kinda freaked me out. I'd much rather go out and catch turtles and frogs than stay inside and do my fingernails and comb my hair *laughs*

    I wish I had the opportunity to make female friends. I think it would be a nice balence in my life...I just don't foresee that happening.
     
  16. dawn_sky

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    I have the misfortune of dealing with a girl who will quite possibly end up like that. She's a first-year grad student in the department I majored in (just graduated). The only females she treated with respect were her advisor, other students of her advisor, and professors. The rest of us were not worth talking to because we were not useful to her. But the guys, oh man, she flirts like crazy with all the guys. She had this one guy, also a first year grad student, wrapped around her little pinky, following her around like a lost puppy dog -- she referred to him as her "pseudoboyfriend", someone to do all the boyfriend stuff like taking her to dinner (and paying!) without getting any of the boyfriend "perks" while her real boyfriend is in school elsewhere. It was really sick. But, yeah, I don't have a problem with her because she's a girl, I have a problem with her because she treats me as subhuman (just an undergrad, not worth acknowleding) while flirting with my boyfriend (phd student in the same department)... But unless someone explicitly explains that that is why several of the girls in the department dislike her, she likely will just blame it on catty girls.

    As for my friends, I used to have mainly guy friends. Then I got involved in the dept. I majored in, where the vast majority of other majors & grad students are female. Now, most of my friends are females, with the closest friends being those who generally don't get along with other girls -- those of us who are not interested in playing games & drama & cattiness, so avoid those girls who do get into those things.
     
  17. ZePpeLinA

    ZePpeLinA Jump around!

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    i have few close friends, females and males, i feel a have a special connection with the guys in particular cos i'm quite open with stuff and i get along very well with boys, with girls, i only trust my friends, i dont really trust girls, most of the girls i have been friends with are backstabbing bitches....i dont know, i find guys to be more trustworthy in terms of friendship.
     
  18. Moonjava

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    I used to feel comfortable around males mostly, but lately I have realized how much I value my female friends!
     
  19. gdhmomchild

    gdhmomchild Duct tape abuser

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    Since I've gotten older, I have many more female friends than I did when I was younger. I did relate to the men I knew more because on many levels I had more in common with them, interests and opinions, attitudes. Plus the circle I was in, the women seemed to be very conniving and untrustworthy. Blame it on living so close to DC.
     
  20. Clover

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    I get along just fine with both girls and boys. My closest friends are both men and women. I don't think we can generalize and say that all women are this, and all men are that, it depends on the preson, regardless the sex.
     

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