can women and men really be friends?

maybe if you're gay

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>>36019683
If neither one is attracted to the other, yes. Or I should say if the GUY isn't attracted to the female. Because I really don't know much about females(I'm a guy) , but it seems that girls are wired a lot different them men, and I don't think women get that weird way men do when they are "friends" with someone they like.

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hey (you)
If you belive the answer is "NO"
you have to be muslim.

If you answer "Yes"
then explain to who said "NO" why...

>>36019683
One of the two would probably smash if given the chance, but that doesn't mean they can't be friends. Unless that is the only thing you base you relationship on.

>>36019683
Ive never had a reason to be friends with women.
If I want friendly company I'll just call up a close male friend of mine, he will provide me more entertainment and knowledge than any women Ive met so far.

tl;dr no

>>36019683
>can women and men really be friends?
Can you be friends with a cow or a cat?

Stop anthromorphisizing women. You can't be friends with them because they are stupid. Their brains don't work like ours, you can't interact with them on the same level you interact with men

>>36019683
Yeah, but why the hell would you want to be platonic friends with a woman?

>Hey, do you want an oatmeal raisin cookie?
>Oh, it's a batter free cookie. You just get the raisins.

>>36019793
Wew you've been here too long anon

>>36019793
GIVE ME A SOURCE OF HOW THIER BRAINS WORK IF YOU ARE A REAL MAN. I WANT PROOF, AND I LL SEARCH FOR IT, JUST GIVE ME A SOURCE.

>>36019835
no, he is right. He just needs to proof it.
to see if he genuinly believe it OR IS JUST A RETARD >>36019793 YOU HEAR.

I'm a fat ugly girl and have been friends with a guy for three years. We hang out and smoke weed, it can work. No attraction from either ends and same idea of what's fun = friendship.

>>36019683
i do have some female friends i don't want to fuck
we are not close but they are fun to be around at times
also it's nice to do something else from time to time
but they are second class citizens compared to my actual friends
mostly girls from my uni and some others i bro-zoned
something like acquaintances you keep around

Yes. As long as youre not attracted to one another then what's the problem?

>>36019683
>can women and men really be friends?
yes
>can they stay friends in the long run?
no

>>36020015
can they stay friends in the long run?
no


why not?

>>36019915
You need to be fat. i get it now.

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>>36019980
>what's the problem?
the problem is robots are so desperate that they are attracted to any 3/10 girls and above
that means most of the girls they ever saw and will see
they can't be just friends with girls that way (and i mean actual friends not orbiting or other shit)
having no female friends ever makes it hard dor robots to interact with girls
so they are thitsty and more desperate
it's a vicious circle

>>36019683
my mommy is my best friend so yes

>>36019683
Women can barely even be friends with other women.

No
it usually goes 3 ways

1. either, there is mutual physical attraction and you end up in a relationship/being fuckbuddies, or nobody makes a move and you part ways because awkwardness.

2. mutual mental attraction, a legit bromance you just enjoy doing shit that makes you happy together, may it be an activity or a specific hobby that links you together.
One or both will enter a romantic relationship with another person sooner or later.
At that point jealousy and distrust will ruin it for you both.. making you part ways for the wellbeing of you both.

3. one sided mental or physical attraction. Usually ends up with one hearthbroken, hatred seething shell of a human.
The posterboy orbiter, the ugly duckling female. This board is littered with examples.
After enough unreturned affection and being taken advantage of the unwanted part usually cuts all ties.. and the other person rarely even notices.


Men and Women can be aquaintances... but never friends /best friends.
The exception would be an openly homosexual man, as one anon above me already stated. Since physical attraction can be ruled out entirely a friendship can ensue.

TL;DR no they cant, fuck you

>>36020156
>Women can barely even be friends with other women.

This
People in this thread aren't understanding something, their brains simply aren't developed enough to form friendships
Unless they are in the 1% of women who are as intelligent as the average man they can barely function independently much less well enough to make friends

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>>36019683
Depends on what you mean.
If you mean,
>"Hi, Alice! Did you see that episode last night?"
>"Morning, Bob! Yes, it was great. We should go to lunch, eat tacos, and discuss pop culture later."
>"I agree."
Then - sure.
If you mean,
>"Hi, Alice. I am facing a profound challenge and need not just emotional support but true insight and wisdom to overcome this hurdle."
>"Bob, I will will assist you with quiet courage and firm conviction."
Then - no.
That relationship DOES exist, but that is called 'a wife' not 'a female friend'

>>36020066
>why not?
Have you ever even talked to a woman?

>>36020239
yes.of course why do u ask?

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>>36019683
I go to Nursing school as a man, and so I am one of 8 men in my class. The other 79 are women. I'm here to tell you that women and men can be friends, but it is very rare. I am only truly friends with 1 woman who I feel actually understands me. I have "friends" in Nursing school, but they can't possibly understand the world I live in and I can't possibly understand theirs.

It has nothing to do with sexual tension. It's the simple fact that men and women are raised differently, treated differently, and expected to do different things. We don't relate well.
Also, women are extremely catty and talk shit about each other because every female secretly wants to be the #1 bitch above all the other bitches. I don't really want to be friends with someone like that. My one true female friend isn't like that and I didn't even meet her in Nursing school.

TL;DR; I've played the numbers and the odds say, largely, "not really."

>>36019753
>get that weird way men do when they are "friends" with someone they like.

can you explain about this weird way

>>36020066
Think about it.
A woman's true "friend" is her husband/boyfriend. Everyone else is just an emotional sponge.

>befriends girl
>great friends, you connect with her on many levels
>she have a good personality, family person, wants to raise children etc
>she finds a boyfriend
> in order to develop her relationship with him, she must focus her attention on him

The only reason you have to befriend a woman is for her potential of being your mate and possibly raise your children.

my only friends are males. feels weird most of the time, especially when they get drunk and make it obvious how much they wanna fug me, but they are fun to be around so it's worth it in my mind
plus there's always the chance that one day they will all get 2drunk, pin me down, and have one big orgy together. that would be fun af

Yes. I've had well over a hundred female friends.
I've only been attracted to a handful, and only a handful or so have been attracted to me (that I know of).

So, disregarding the few where the friendship didn't work because of attraction or because the friendship was just a ploy to get into my pants. There's still like 90% of those that were perfectly healthy friendships.
And I did manage to have a few fwb situations, where we were actually close friends with a healthy friendship.
So yeah. It's a thing.

>>36020396
>bringing a child into this world when world war 3 over scarcity of water will happen in their lifetimes and the effects of climate change will submerge most land masses
>but don't worry, you gave him your autistic genetics to deal with these problems!

I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

>>36020267
Because you sound like you haven't even looked one in the eye.

Then again, I suppose it's perfectly reasonable for an orbiting permavirgin to think he can be "friends" with a woman indefinitely.

>>36020435
>only friends are males
Not surprising.
Guy are getting moe tolerant of faggots every day.

>>36019683
Yes. I'm dating my best friend. You have to be friends to date or get married.

>>36020479
They'll be fine

I hope it's orengano

>>36019683
I have several female friends. It's not very different from male friends.

You hang out, talk, watch movies, eat and chill no problem.

>>36020462
>I've had well over a hundred friends.
you are the most retarded person in here

Only if you've known each other from a young enough age that your brain flags them as possibly related to you.

>>36020103
>the problem is robots are so desperate that they are attracted to any 3/10 girls and above
Quite the opposite, dude.
My taste in women has become so specific that I only find 1 out of every 200 women or so I see attractive.
Having a friend that is in that category, though. It burns every single day of your existence.

No. We can be friendly, but not friends.

>>36020677
How? Because I have the experience to support any claims on a situation?

>>36020517
How did you turn the friend thing into a relationship/dating thing?

yes if theyre both homos

>>36019781
this so much.

i've never met a girl I wanted to hang out with as a friend because they're so fucking boring.

Yes of course it is possible but more often than not the guy is crushing on the girl and she is using him for some kind of use, usually emotional support or just a backup bf if the shit hits the fan. Guys that stick around when they are friendzoned deserve to be used anyway, they are the weakest type of man. They have the mindset of a rapist, they would rather force an awkward friendship than muster the self respect to move on and obtain something real.

As for real friendship? It does happen but its rare. I've known two girls in my life who I would consider just friends and I honestly enjoyed there company as people but really they were poor friendships, I don't speak to either of them now. I feel women make poor friends for men, we have few common interests and even in friendship women expect you to do all the work.

But YES is possible.

>>36020818
going to see a movie with a girl or playing video games with one . how is that boring?

>>36020769
We got to be such good friends that we never wanted to be apart.

>>36020844
nothing wrong with being in the friendzone. it is better to give her emotional support and get attention then to get nothing. just talking to a girl is fun and exciting even if she dosent want sex

>>36020799
A woman can't be homosexual because concepts of female sexuality are not nearly as developed as they are for men

This is why there are far fewer women who identify as gay than men

Even in general, women are simply not as sexual as men - they masturbate less, are not as interested in having sex, it's always the male who must initiate sex. Their bodies are simply vessels for reproduction, nothing more. Women are not as sexual, in both straight and gay contexts

>>36020851
But there had to be a tipping point.
You both didn't just wake up one day (in your seperate bedrooms, of course) and though of one another as a couple

>>36020850
first of all you barely talk in a movie so that's a shitty example of fun. I don't even have fun if I see a movie with a group of guys.

second I've only met a handful of girls that play video games and it's like mobile or wii or one or two console games. it's not like I can play anything competitive with these girls, they would never play souls games or any moba or fps.

I only met one girl who was into the same shit as me and we became friends for a month, then she became flirty and we dated. you can't be friends with these semen demons.

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>>36019683
yes
source: of fucking course they can you fucking turbonerd

>>36020895
i've never read something as beta as this in my life.

>>36020917
I asked him to be my bf and he said yes. Also we already slept in the same bed.

>>36019753
>that weird way men do when they are "friends" with someone they like.

What did he mean by this?

>>36021064
having a girl respond to a text and having a girl to talk about things is pretty cool bro. sure i cant lick her pussy or anything. but its someone to have a conversation with

>>36021082
Thanks for the faggotry.
I actually thought this was serious.
On the internet and /r9k/ of all places.
How stupid of me.

>>36021140
now you're doing it on purpose FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>36021153
its the truth. you can sit and have NOTHING or you can have SOMETHING. and be proud. for example, you can have a million dollars. or you can have 500,000 sure 500,000 isnt as good but its still good.

I don't want anything to do with women as friends.

It just perpetually reminds me that I'm an unattractive creatures and that if I was Chad she would be into me, but as it is, I'm just too ugly for her and anybody else.

It's perpetual torture.

>>36021189

Ha, you're naive. That is what I thought as well but eventually the feeling of being inadequate to attract women will catch up with you and you will start resenting them and then you'll distance yourself because you cannot take it any more.

>>36021189
just cut your dick off already please.

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I have extremely low sex drive, no desire whatsoever for relationships and no interest in intimacy. I am attracted to female features and fap to hetero porn, and can find female friends/acquaintances attractive, but I never actually feel attracted to them because of the emotional distance so I can confirm it's possible to be friends with women if you're a recluse with mental issues because of that. the The few people I talk to on a regular basis are women, and I wouldn't ever want to be more than friends.

I would probably fuck a prostitute in the unlikely scenario that I ever got real desperate and horny, but if she started acting/talking towards me like a human being I'd opt out immediately.

>>36019683
Yes but not the women and men you see being friends.

if you have a female friend who is actually a friend and she knows that you're struggling, she'll help you get with other women
women know how to get pussy. they know what works on them and they're hyper aware of this social shit
if you had a female friend a year ago you wouldn't be a virgin now

>>36021366
and then they'll get jealous that you're banging the girl she got for you and it'll ruin the friendship.

C A N T B E F R I E N D S

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Very rarely, but if both sides have something to offer other than sex, it can happen.

("Companionship" doesn't count, and almost always ends with the woman losing interest and the man feeling conned.)

Yes. My best friend is a girl. We play video games online or hang out, watch Netflix, Ricky and Morty or Game of Thrones.

I'm not sure if it's normal for m/f friendships because this is the only one I have but we "cuddle" for lack of a better description not like a couple, it just feels good for both of us, I guess.

I don't think abut her sexually. Actually thinking of her kinda kills the mood because she is like a closer sister more than anything.

>>36021189
This faggot should be killed

Whenever I get dumb enough to text a female or dip into social media (some type of romantic haze) I usually end up insulting them harshly and rather quickly

They are only using you for their own twisted shallow gratification and you get NOTHING in return because they are energy vampires you can't even cuddle

>>36021150
They could be a girl, dude

no

i use one of my exes for emotional support and she thinks we're friends but I'll drop her in a heartbeat if I have to for a new grill

>>36020895
This is the most pathetic thing I've seen on this board in a long time.

>>36021483
instead of talking to me. you could be talking to a beautiful female right now on the phone. even as friends you cant say thats not better then not talking to one at all

>>36021665
GET OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT you're the WORST.

>>36021694
ive been in this friendzone area you people call it, for years. if i wanted a girlfriend id simply go look for a girlfriend that wanted me. end of story whats the problem man?

>>36021713
i'm closing this tab now go fuck yourself i'm mad at you for being like this.

>>36021504
>girl
Where do you think we are?

>>36021740
friendzone is just some meme fad someone made up in the 2000's.
its not real man

>>36021444
Why do all women and beta fags like yourself love that stupid fucking Rick and Morty show?

The answer is no OP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lh5fR4DMA
Why did all the women in this video say yes while the men said no? Ask yourself

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>>36019793
>>36019857
>>36019884
evidence.zip

i can but i have the emotions of a child

>>36021829
How is that relevant if I only befriend the few +115 iq Women?

>>36020517
>taking advantage of the ambiguity of the word "friend"
Nicely played anon.

>>36021504
It was ovbiously a joke, you thirsty faggot

>>36021082
Are you one of those perverts from the brother/sister incest containment threads? If so, please get off the internet. It isn't healthy for you.

>>36019753
>>36019779
>>36019980
>>36020462
>>36020627
>>36020895
>>36021030
>>36021140
>>36021265
>>36021713

Listen up, All you people who said yes, what is the longest period you have been able to maintain a m/f friendship? It can't be more than a year. Also, which rank did they have among your closest friends.

The longest m/f friendship I had lasted 9 months and she was approximately 5th closest friend at the time. The friendship collapsed when my #4 closest friend caught the feels for her and they grew resentful of each other.

>>36020372
>>36021095
I'm guessing he's talking about the common occurrence of men developing feelings for women they approach with the idea of "friendship" in mind
Women don't experience this because it's not their duty to approach potential mates

>>36022505
only 1 lasted more than a year probably. but it was due to outside reasons

>>36020896
nah youre just ugly

>>36022505
During middle-high school my closest friends were girls. In uni it switched who they were but they were still women. Some straight some les, but for whatever reason I just clicked better with them than with men. Maybe it's just because most guys I grew up with were either complete jocks or dude weeds. A lot of the nerds were in self denial or basically numales before that was really a thing.
My best friend of all time is a female and I could trust her with anything. We've been close for almost a decade.

>>36022505
About two years.
Probably #3

Collapsed when her boyfriend, who was another friend of mine, got jealous of us always talking on Skype and watching shit on Hulu/Netflix at night. I'd understand his jealousy if I didn't have my own gf, but whatever. Eventually he made her pick and she picked him. Sucks but what can you do. At least it wasn't technically either her or I that ruined the friendship

>>36022505
4 years as close close friends. She was my 2nd closest during that time.
We grew apart because of life, goals, moving, college, etc.
We still maintain sporadic contact. I met her bf and she met my gf last year.

>>36023415
And to take that further, except during my young childhood in which I also had female friends but none that close and buddy buddy, I haven't been able to maintain ANY friendship male or female for more than a year or so. So that one lasting as long as it did, should be proof of its integrity.

>>36020066
Because you're a naive faggot who still thinks we live in a world of rainbows and candy.

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>>36020754
Shud up faggiet