Can Men and Women just be friends?

[beanman12345]

I wouldn't post here if everyone liked my arguments and agrees with me. In fact there's no point in even having a thread where you like and agree with everyone in the thread.


Okay but you would need to explain why that is the case in order to advance our understanding of the topic.

So you post here just to disagree with everyone? great.

also I don't need to explain why your ideas are bad at all.

whatever. have a day. done with your lies for the day.

[Rozz]

Stay civil and reel it back in.

[Themius]

I have gay friends....I am a gay guy....

[Felya]

I get along far better with women, than I do with men. The same characteristics that make women feel comfortable around me, are the same ones than makes men question their own masculinity. I have no control over it... I am a very friendly giant... kids and animals, literally flock to me... while men are uncomfortable around me.

[Orange Joe]

I have gay friends....I am a gay guy....

Nope, this is wrong. You should clearly want to fuck any guy you want to be friends with. Thats the only right way according to @PC2

[Sorensen]

Nope, this is wrong. You should clearly want to fuck any guy you want to be friends with. Thats the only right way according to @PC2

They probably do.

I'm envisioning massive orgies.

[Felya]

They probably do.

I'm assuming massive orgies.

This would have been far more amusing, if you said envision, instead of assuming... -10 sarcasm points...

Don't worry I fix

Points have been returned!!!

[Sorensen]

This would have been far more amusing, if you said envision, instead of assuming... -10 sarcasm points...

Don't worry I fix

[Santti]

Nope, this is wrong. You should clearly want to fuck any guy you want to be friends with. Thats the only right way according to @PC2

I feel sorry for bisexual people. They can't have any friends, because they apparently want to fuck everyone, women and men.

[Sorensen]

I feel sorry for bisexual people. They can't have any friends, because they apparently want to fuck everyone, women and men.

Just cus you want to smash doesn't mean you can't be or have friends, it just means that you aren't "just friends"

I think this is the point many people are missing in this thread.

[callipygoustp]

Ignoring the ridiculous amount of real world experience I have: No, its impossible.

[draynay]

Didn't we have this same exact thread not too long ago...?

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ust-be-friends

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...t-quot-friends

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...t-Friends-quot

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...UST-be-Friends

-.-;

Can't have enough repetitive vapid threads.

[Santti]

Just cus you want to smash doesn't mean you can't be or have friends, it just means that you aren't "just friends"

I think this is the point many people are missing in this thread.

Just going by the logic of the OP and PrimaryColor, that men can't be friends with women, because men are horny lot. Therefore, bisexuals can't have friends. Or bisexual men can't, but bisexual women can?

Yeah, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

[Acidbaron]

Don't see why not, depends on how mature both parties are.

For a man perspective it is fairly vile to act like a good friend just to try and get some action, it is also useful to have a woman friend you can confide in and vice versa.
Unless you look awful and don't take care of yourself sex is fairly easy to get nowadays, it is not worth torpedoing a good friendship over because in most cases sex ruins a good friendship if the intend was never to be more than that in my opinion.

I have to say it also depends on your partner and there are boundaries, i wouldn't be okay with my female friends cuddling me and what not all the time if i had a girlfriend but that's just me, same way i don't find it okay the other way around even if some people are more physical than others.

Now if you are an incel i can see why this doesn't come across believable but those are people that have decided to give up on themselves and blame others for their own behaviour.

[Witchblade77]

Right but does that apply to the majority of guys and to the majority of cases where there is a guy and a good looking gal? This thread doesn't have to be about every guy and every relationship but just about the average or typical case.

reading through variety of responses of yours... something interesting i've noticed. you apparently have no problem with being friends with women who are in relationships already. so why does that switch click off in those cases but not when they are single? attractive women are attractive whether they are in relationship or single. so why can you, but your own words not have these issues when they are attached?

moreover... are you trying to claim that only (lets say conventionally) attractive people get to experience sexual desire or be desired? really? and "normies" never pair up, never enjoy sexual attraction and sex? because looks are the only thing that matter?

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Just going by the logic of the OP and PrimaryColor, that men can't be friends with women, because men are horny lot. Therefore, bisexuals can't have friends. Or bisexual men can't, but bisexual women can?

Yeah, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

right? its what confuses me as well.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I am going to say No, I am sure that isn't Politically correct and I am open to being wrong, but in general. Now don't get me wrong in a professional setting certainly.

I believe women and men can have a purely professional relationship.

Keep in mind being working relationships, acquaintances in my opinion are NOT friendships.

Few exceptions being close relatives, and men and women who aren't attracted to the opposite sex. In my experience and from what I have observed that is just the way it is.

[Zuben]

Yes, but it's harder if your life is otherwise devoid of romance/sex. That's why I consider apps like Tinder good overall as it's a very approachable channel to meeting people to form a sexual relationship with, romantic or otherwise.

[Malacrass]

Of course they can be friends, the only question is if they can be friends in an unrequited love-relationship, to which I would say no - not in a way I would consider healthy. And with "unrequited love" I actually mean love, like the brainy hormone love cocktail chemistry stuff you can't reasonably fight against - not lust. The latter is easy enough to suppress, while the former can only lead to an abusive relationship (sometimes not even intentionally abusive).

I assume the same applies to homosexuals, making it not a thing exclusive between men and women.

[PC2]

Of course they can be friends, the only question is if they can be friends in an unrequited love-relationship, to which I would say no - not in a way I would consider healthy. And with "unrequited love" I actually mean love, like the brainy hormone love cocktail chemistry stuff you can't reasonably fight against - not lust. The latter is easy enough to suppress, while the former can only lead to an abusive relationship (sometimes not even intentionally abusive).

I assume the same applies to homosexuals, making it not a thing exclusive between men and women.

Exactly yeah I don't understand why so many guys think an unrequited love friendship is still a real friendship. A friendship that is based on an inequality obviously has nothing to do with a real mutual friendship.

[Quiznart]

For those thinking there's still any value to this argument, and that men can only see women as bangable, I gotta ask; do you feel the same way about your mothers and sisters and aunts and so forth? You'd bang 'em, if they gave you a shot? Or are you able to maintain a healthy platonic relationship with them?

Because having a platonic friend isn't any friggin' different. If you can manage to not pop a stiffy every time your mom bends over, you can be platonic friends with women. The difference is that you don't want to. You're horning out over every woman you meet, and you think that's normal.

And it's not.

Of course someone can be just be friends with someone they aren't sexually attracted to. So your argument doesn't really work unless you actually find your mom attractive.

But the real question everyone should be asking is what constitutes friendship? If I only really like someone because they buy my meals when we go out are we still friends? What if I help them move and do other things with them that has a greater value than the meals? Does that suddenly make the friendship more real? What if I only started talking to a person because they are the only one I know I can talk to about paper airplane racing? What if I love helping people and so befriended someone who is always sick so I can help them out?

The fact of the matter is that we all want something out of our relationships with other people even online, maybe we want to troll someone to watch them get riled up or maybe we want to espouse our moral superiority and or intellect and berate our lessers only to flee the area instead of apologizing if we misconstrued what we thought they meant. In the end no matter what type of relationship it is an individual will always want something out of it so who cares if you hope one day you can hook up with the other person as long as you don't expect or demand that the relationship go any further than the other person wants.