When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.
Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.
I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
I grew up not having very many girl friends. Girls tend to be competitive. I actually went to the school 'Mean Girls' was written about, so you can only imagine what my high school experience was like!
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me.