A Man. A Woman. Just Friends?

• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-04-09 11:01
  It depends on the person and their preferences.
  
  If someone's really hurting to just have any lover and they're open to anyone, then they're almost certainly not gonna be able to be friends even if they go into it with that intention.
  
  If someone has plenty of people and/or they're just very limited in what they like, it would be challenging to be anything but friends with them.
  
  That is to say that yeah, I think it's very possible. It's actually quite challenging to be attracted to everyone of the opposite sex and have even a tiny desire to sleep with them when they're so clearly not what you're sexually attracted to, especially if you're always surrounded by the kind of people you are attracted to.
• whocares8128 wrote on 2012-04-09 16:20
  Of course men and women can be friends. People who say otherwise are just too horny (or weird). [SIZE="1"]Who chooses their friends based on their physical attractiveness anyway?[/SIZE]
• Cynic wrote on 2012-04-09 16:30

  Quote from whocares8128;834839:

  Of course men and women can be friends. People who say otherwise are just too horny (or weird). [SIZE="1"]Who chooses their friends based on their physical attractiveness anyway?[/SIZE]

  
  
  Attraction =/= physical attraction. Unless that was directed at someone in particular.
  
  But aye. Most people choose friends because they get along with them really well. And unless someone happens to be a strictly physical person, it's pretty easy to fall for someone who you're good friends with since, obviously, they have very attractive qualities. (various common interests = big plus for some people when looking at potential partners)
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-04-09 16:48
  Not very valid for pansexuals through..
  Anyone can be a friend first, and whenever it develop into love or remain friendship is up to them.
• Monarchist wrote on 2012-04-09 22:25
  I usually find it easier to talk to and relate with women, most of my closest friends in real life and in game are female. Sure, from time to time I may feel somewhat attracted to one of them, but it always passes after a day or so. I just really have a hard time relating with most other men anyway since in my own opinion, I don't go through the same trains of thought as regular guys.
• Phunkie wrote on 2012-04-10 21:06
  Of course.
  
  It's like two gay men being friends or two lesbians. They don't necessarily need to be physically attracted to each other.
• csraln wrote on 2012-04-11 06:16
  maybe
• NomadTrooper wrote on 2012-04-11 07:25

  Quote from Dumb Article:

  Stories about friendships of any kind are relatively rare,

  
  Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.... No. To name a few: Lord of the Rings, One Piece, My Little Pony*is shot*, many versions of Robin Hood.
  
  

  Quote from Dumb Article:

  Put a man and a woman together in a movie or a novel, and we expect the sparks to fly. Yet it isn’t just a narrative problem, or a Hollywood problem.

  
  No, put that in a movie or novel were it don't belong and we end up with Shia LaBeouf chasing Megan Fox. And nobody sane wants that.
  
  
  

  Quote from Dumb Article:

  Friendship between the sexes may no longer be a political issue, but it is an issue of liberation: the freedom to love whom you want, in the way that you want. Maybe it’s time that we all took it out of the closet.

  
  No one who's smart says people who are of the opposite sex can't be just friends. If this is how people think now-a-days, then the general population is far dumber then I've previously believed. (and every time I hear the words "no homo" after I love you, I want to punch them in the face for confusing love with lust, and being in love)
  
  Who ever wrote this needs a vacation to clear there head so they can come back and write better. (I'm in a good mood)
  
  *edited*
  I took the metaphor to literal.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-04-11 08:05
  This article is just a bunch of opinions from an idiot.
• paladin wrote on 2012-04-11 15:06

  Quote from Jerain;834671:

  Even a socially awkward person like me has female friends.

  
  
  This
• Loopulse wrote on 2012-04-14 03:28
  Socially awkward guys have more female friends.....
• Elena wrote on 2012-04-14 21:49
  I have a lot of male friends I would never get into that kind of relationship with, even if they're amazing people. I don't get how it's impossible. @.@
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-04-14 23:35

  Quote from Elena;838752:

  I have a lot of male friends I would never get into that kind of relationship with, even if they're amazing people. I don't get how it's impossible. @.@

  
  
  When you look at them, do you see them as men? Or do you just see them as friends?
• Elena wrote on 2012-04-17 14:57
  That's an odd question, to me. In my eyes, they're clearly men, and some of them are very attractive. I'm just not interested in them that way. Just because my sexual preference leans one way or the other, doesn't mean that I can't have of the sex I'm attracted to. I do think that a good relationship should start as friendship at least, though. Knowing the person, and knowing that you can trust them is important.
  
  I think now, with my generation at least, it's easier to just be friends with a guy because many of the guys and girls I know have really similar interests. The gender roles aren't as divided. It's mostly our bodies that create the most noticeable distinction, but the distinction is still there.