People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.