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"Definitely more male...in fact, hardly any female
Are females harder to be friends with?"
I used to think so. It's changed for me probably in the last ten years. For me it's down to communication style and a willingness to be vulnerable in different ways. |
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"Definitely more male...in fact, hardly any female
Are females harder to be friends with?
I used to think so. It's changed for me probably in the last ten years. For me it's down to communication style and a willingness to be vulnerable in different ways. "
How is the communication different? |
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"Definitely more male...in fact, hardly any female
Are females harder to be friends with?
I used to think so. It's changed for me probably in the last ten years. For me it's down to communication style and a willingness to be vulnerable in different ways.
How is the communication different?"
It's difficult to explain, and it's not entirely generalisable because women don't all interact in the same way, clearly.
But there's ways women and men are usually taught to interact. I used to shy away from the roles I'd been taught, almost trying to be an honorary boy. But it doesn't serve me.
I find my relationships richer and fuller being myself, including the gendered conditioning I've experienced. |
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"Definitely more male...in fact, hardly any female
Are females harder to be friends with?"
For me, yes...I don't "get" women. I just find men easier to get along with, always have. I can be very straight talking, and I've found that generally men appreciate that, but women tend to think I'm being nasty and get upset by it (* gross generalisation, not all men or women, but the majority in my personal experience). Plus I'm not a girly girl, I'd rather have a conversation about cars than makeup or clothes. I have more male friends than female away from fab too |
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"I don't have any guys I call friends but quite a few women. How about you?"
I thought you and I had a connection... it seems I was just dreaming
In real life I have a lot of man friends but one of my oldest and dearest friends is a chick.
Also... my wife and I are really good friends.
She’s a good friend, I hold her hair back when she’s drank to many shots and is icky. |
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"I don't have any guys I call friends but quite a few women. How about you?
I thought you and I had a connection... it seems I was just dreaming
In real life I have a lot of man friends but one of my oldest and dearest friends is a chick.
Also... my wife and I are really good friends.
She’s a good friend, I hold her hair back when she’s drank to many shots and is icky."
Maybe I won't have as many female friends if I ever get a wife! |
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I have a solid mix of both male and female, and have always had a mix since I was a kid. I was probably one of the only girls who was encouraged to have more male friends as a kid ?? |
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"I don't have any guys I call friends but quite a few women. How about you?
I thought you and I had a connection... it seems I was just dreaming
In real life I have a lot of man friends but one of my oldest and dearest friends is a chick.
Also... my wife and I are really good friends.
She’s a good friend, I hold her hair back when she’s drank to many shots and is icky.
Maybe I won't have as many female friends if I ever get a wife!"
You can have both.
You just have to find the right wife! |
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Many more female friends. I just don't get men, women are so much easier to get along with. I find that very often men fail to see the nuances of, well anything, while women are more appreciative of the complexities inherent in negotiating modern society. I guess not all men are the same, maybe it's just those in my experience.
It may be that I'm just not that interested in "manly" things, I frankly get bored by anyone talking about cars or football or nights out on the piss... Conversing about literature, feminism, equality, society, science, the arts is much more me and for whatever reason seems to be more likely to be found in female company than male. This is not just my experience on fab either, it's very much the same across all parts of my life. |
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"I don't have any guys I call friends but quite a few women. How about you?"
I have mostly male friends... but basically as I'm into Cars and bikes etc.. I do have a few great female friends but I'm such a laddette half the time x
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