I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting to me, what brings guys together? The bonding. 'Old School' is a good example of that. And even 'Starsky' and even 'Road Trip.'
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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.
It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Honestly, I usually have way more guy friends than girlfriends.
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.
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!
I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.