Friends

[Sundancer]

Is it just me or do girls make friends with one another more easily than guys do with other guys? I have male friends, but none I hang out with on a regular basis.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Don't know about that. Most of the girls I know are super catty and have more guy friends than girl friends. It's probably subjective though. Everybody is different.

 

[Figs]

Don't know about that. Most of the girls I know are super catty and have more guy friends than girl friends. It's probably subjective though. Everybody is different.

Same here.

A number of them, including my wife say they prefer hanging out with guys because "girls can be c****", "b******" or straight up drama queens.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Girls don't make friends. They make "frenemies"

Seriously, if you're ever hanging out with a group of girls and one leaves to go to the bathroom, they're like a pack of wolves, talking derisively about her clothes, her attitude, her boyfriend, her job, etc. And then when she comes back all smiles and sunshine again.

We guys, we never do that. Right…. guys?

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Girls don't make friends. They make "frenemies"

Seriously, if you're ever hanging out with a group of girls and one leaves to go to the bathroom, they're like a pack of wolves, talking derisively about her clothes, her attitude, her boyfriend, her job, etc. And then when she comes back all smiles and sunshine again.

We guys, we never do that. Right…. guys?

This.

What you're seeing is an illusion. It's that girls, at least the average ones in high school, are experts are socializing.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

In my own experience: males tend to be more socially clumsy, but the friendships formed are noticeably more stable than those between females.

 

[Feenix]

Girls don't make friends. They make "frenemies"

Seriously, if you're ever hanging out with a group of girls and one leaves to go to the bathroom, they're like a pack of wolves, talking derisively about her clothes, her attitude, her boyfriend, her job, etc. And then when she comes back all smiles and sunshine again.

We guys, we never do that. Right…. guys?

Yeah, this is true. But it's not just girls, it's middle aged women and seniors as well. I work with women between the ages of 21 and 65. In terms of maturity, it doesn't get better with age. It's more about personality than anything else.

In other words, it's entirely individualistic. If you ever want to know who is a good woman, hang around them in the scenario that JJJ described. The one who doesn't talk s***t is a good woman. The one who tells the others to stop talking s***t is a great woman.

I personally have surrounded myself with people who just don't give a ****. No one talks bad about someone that just left the room because no one is petty enough to do so. The girls I know that do that peaked in high school and have nothing going for them in life.

 

[Silvermoth]

Sometimes, I don't really think it has anything to do with gender, but I think some people make plenty of friends but if they got hurt none of them would come into the hospital to see if they were ok whereas others make very few friends but they are almost siblings in many ways.

To op, if you're worried about it a great way to make friends is to go to comic book conventions. Many conventions have a social group beforehand so it's easy to meet people, possibly keep in touch through Facebook and then maybe keep hanging out

 

[PyroChamber]

Sometimes, I don't really think it has anything to do with gender, but I think some people make plenty of friends but if they got hurt none of them would come into the hospital to see if they were ok whereas others make very few friends but they are almost siblings in many ways.

To op, if you're worried about it a great way to make friends is to go to comic book conventions. Many conventions have a social group beforehand so it's easy to meet people, possibly keep in touch through Facebook and then maybe keep hanging out

Whenever I go to C2E2, the thought of socializing never really comes to mind mainly because I'm there by myself.

Although sometimes if you're friends with a woman who has LOTS of male friends that can be a bad thing. Especially if you all become attracted to her.

 

[NickNitro]

Is it just me or do girls make friends with one another more easily than guys do with other guys? I have male friends, but none I hang out with on a regular basis.

Most if not all girls I have ever known have more guy friends than girl friends. I would hate to be a girl for that very reason, apparently they are very jealous/back stabbing/gossiping creatures and most girls I know don't want to deal with it.

 

[Lord]

I actually see plenty of male friends talking s*** of each others behind the back.

 

[Teelie]

Most of the guys I know will talk **** about you with you in the group too, so there's that.

 

[Erzengel]

I have a friend who makes male and female friends wherever he goes. My wife makes friends at pretty much every place she worked, usually female. My new friends are usually her female friends.

 

[Sundancer]

To op, if you're worried about it a great way to make friends is to go to comic book conventions. Many conventions have a social group beforehand so it's easy to meet people, possibly keep in touch through Facebook and then maybe keep hanging out

Done that past three years at Phoenix comicon. People tend to go in groups. I'm probably older than the average Hypster. I'm 40, and the catty high school stuff is long behind me. Yes, it happens when people are older, but less so in my experience.

I think it's interesting that girls of all ages like to take pictures with their friends but guys generally don't.

 

[PyroChamber]

There's nothing worst than being around grown people who act more like kids than their own kids do.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I actually see plenty of male friends talking s*** of each others behind the back.

Yeah, we aren't blameless in this either.

A female friend told me recently about how she was set to go out with her room mates and they never showed up at the place they were set to meet at. They called her and said they felt sick. When she got home they were all laughing and drinking. She decided to move out after that. She blames the snub on her telling them to clean up the apartment after they started getting mice.

 

[Pink Ranger]

 

[NickNitro]

Guys have the decency though to talk **** to your face. Not behind your back. Most of the time as well, guys who are all friends just talk **** to one another anyway. It's the way we bond...by making fun of one another haha

 

[queenkale]

It's the way we bond...by making fun of one another haha

Women do this too, at least the ones I hang out/work with.

I think this is all subjective; not ALL women make friends quickly, not ALL women talk smack behind other women's backs, more like the few that do give the rest of us bad names. Let's not stereotype here.

 

[PyroChamber]

Here a question, if you're a guy and you're friends with a woman how do you keep yourself from becoming attracted to her and seeing her as nothing more than a friend?

 

[Erzengel]

Don't let her be the only woman in your life?

 

[Lord]

Don't let her be the only woman in your life?

Pretty much that.

 

[Warhammer]

I have more females friends than male friends surprisingly.

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

I've made more female friends and I have talked to more females in my final year of High School than all three previous years combined. It wasn't even a goal of mine, it just kinda happened. I'm not awesome as socializing with women, but I think I've gotten better.

I don't know if they are better friends to each other than men. I mean, men do talk **** about each other. My friends do it all the time, which makes me sad because I wonder what they say about me.

 

[Feenix]

Quoted for truth.