About women and friends
About women and friends
Post by razor on Jan 16, 2006, 5:57am
I was just thinking….
Women have told me that they can’t stand other women as friends. However, I’ve never heard a man say that he can’t stand men as friends.
Interesting, no?
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Re: About women and friends
Post by Me on Jan 16, 2006, 3:50pm
Its not that they can’t stand women as friends. Its that by and large, they can’t BE friends.
Female friendships don’t really exist.
It’s just a genetic conditions; it’s not really their fault. I’ve learned not to get mad at it anymore or disappointed. I just take it as a fact.
Its like with men. Men will just never get excited about handbags or shoe shopping. We don’t really get it.
Women will never be friends. They don’t really understand the concept; they will never really get it.
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Re: About women and friends
Post by Disconnect registering on Jan 16, 2006, 3:59pm
Sadly, it became pretty common for two women to be all smiles and sunshine when they’re together, yet talk the sickest shit behind each others’ backs. This can go on for indefinite amount of time, and is considered friendship among them. Talk about fake personalities…
However, I’ve never heard of a woman say that they can’t stand other women as friends. In fact, I’m wary of any woman who has too many male friends – a big red flag of an attention whore (American Women coincidentally).
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Re: About women and friends
Post by scholarlee on Jan 16, 2006, 4:04pm
Jan 16, 2006, 3:50pm, Me wrote:Its not that they can’t stand women as friends. Its that by and large, they can’t BE friends.
Female friendships don’t really exist.
It’s just a genetic conditions; it’s not really their fault. I’ve learned not to get mad at it anymore or disappointed. I just take it as a fact.
Its like with men. Men will just never get excited about handbags or shoe shopping. We don’t really get it.
Women will never be friends. They don’t really understand the concept; they will never really get it.
well, that’s a relief! here I thought I was just a weirdo. now I see that it’s the women who surround themselves with “friends” of the same sex who are living a lie.
now I don’t have to be ashamed or feel like an outcast because I never “got” the whole shoes/handbag thing, even though I am unavoidably female. thanks for straightening me out!
seriously – I don’t have a lot of female friends (real or fake) at the moment. it bothers me a little.
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Re: About women and friends
Post by mattd on Jan 16, 2006, 4:07pm
Women always see themselves in competition with other women. The same does hold true for men but men tend to bond due to competition. Women on the other hand will not and actually eventually despise each other.
I can remember as a boy getting into fist fights with other boys and then later becoming their friends. We don’t have near the ability to hold a grudge.
Girls on the other hand will go at one another and remain that way for as long as they know each other.
Truly men are the sex that forgives and forgets.
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Re: About women and friends
Post by Citadel on Jan 16, 2006, 7:19pm
Quote:Its like with men. Men will just never get excited about handbags or shoe shopping. We don’t really get it.
Have to disagree on this one. This is probably a defense mechanism many of your brains have started because women spend too much money. Think about it:
Don’t you remember how excited you used to get as a child when it was time to pick out shoes? Or how about wallet shopping? What about picking out a suit? I can take hours to choose a good suit or a ring, as can many men.
Men actually enjoy shopping a lot, duh. I LOVE shopping. Anyone who says he/she doesn’t is depriving himself/herself of a great pleasure.
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Re: About women and friends
Post by travis on Jan 16, 2006, 8:45pm
“Men actually enjoy shopping a lot, duh. I LOVE shopping.”~Citadel
Me too, especially when it’s for electronics. Clothes and shoe shopping takes less than 30 minutes for me now, but when I was a kid I hated it because it took hours with my mother/sister.
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Re: About women and friends
Post by Citadel on Jan 16, 2006, 9:33pm
Quote:Clothes and shoe shopping takes less than 30 minutes for me now, but when I was a kid I hated it because it took hours with my mother/sister.
Oh man it takes me forever when shopping for a video game or a camera — typical Libra I guess, always on the rocks when it comes to choosing between things 
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Re: About women and friends
Post by bernie on Jan 17, 2006, 12:20am
I’ve seen that behavior first hand. My pot head ex was friends with this girl that was an attention whore. She’d bitch to me how Erin wanted to be the center of attention, blah blah. Well I found out Erin had talked shit about me being Catholic, so I told pot head that her friend was a bitch for talking about me like that. Instead of being supportive, she started defending her “wonderful” friend and bitching at me, telling me how great of a friend she was, blah blah.
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Re: About women and friends
Post by Freshy on Jan 17, 2006, 3:23am
Hmm, I don’t know if this is so odd.
I can’t stand the typical woman in the US. I am not a huge fan of shopping (unless it’s DVDs and books) so I never got the whole “mall” thing. I don’t talk badly about guys, so never got into that. I rarely wear make-up or spend time getting my nails done. I don’t read cosmo and I wear what I like and never pay attention to trends. I hate drama and backstabbing.
With all that how many women do you think I actually get along with?
I do have female friends, about three I consider good friends. Two of them have very similar attitudes to mine and the third, well, I love her and she knows if she starts bitching to me I’ll listen but I’ll never give her advice. The friendship works because she accepts that I long ago learned she’ll never listen to anything I suggest so I stopped suggesting.
With all the complaints you have against AW is it really odd that some of us don’t want them as friends?
The ones with the most female friends also tend to be the most stereotypical ones in my experience.
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Re: About women and friends
Post by Snakey on Jan 17, 2006, 6:31am
What’s weirdest to me is: we all know the animosity that often exists between women, even ‘friends’. They know each other’s schemes & trickery and they know not to trust each other the way they can trust us.
Yet, studies have shown that women will side with other women in a conflict rather than side with men. (Most obvious with female judges: they side with their own, while chivalrous old nitwits defer to women.)
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Re: About women and friends
Post by SouthernPride on Jan 17, 2006, 7:05am
Every woman I’ve dated has stated to me that they cant stand having Female friends. Course the only reason i get from them is that they are all backstabbing bitches (go Figure 
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My X had Tons of ” Friends ” Mostly Male of course. I actually sat back and observed these so called “friends”.
In all actuality they are Strictly – Bar Buddies and/or Just guys that Give attention because they want in her pants. Yet for some reason she calls them “Friends”. To a Guy thats just a buddy or if the buddy is a chick she is just a Groupie.
A Real Friend is One you can call when your in need of help and know they will be there to help you. Be it financially or if you just need someone to get your back. Not just a “Drinking / Club Hopping” Partner.
Most Women (that I’ve met) just don’t seem to get that …. /boggle/
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