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Are men as intimate with there friends as girls are? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 17 hours ago by SpaceFox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've had female friends and I've had male friends but for some reason I've noticed that females are more intimate and close to there friends then males are. Is this true for all male friends?

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You gets it

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Yet tbf, people usually say that's a problem when it's used alone as in "females and men" because "nobody says 'males,'" but here she says "females and males."

Personally, if I write a post like this I'd write "women and males" even though it's clunky and awkward, just so the sanctimonious crowd doesn't have shit to say, but she did the thing that people say is fine to do and yet still gets accused of being a ferengi. I know it's exciting to feel like you're better than someone and jump to correcting their behavior but it's possible we're jumping the shark here.

Edit: btw, as per OP's post history, she's a "23yo female with a 76 IQ." Lay off man, jeez!

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm not in the habit of stalking a poster's history before making a reply. But I looked at OPs profile to confirm what you said. They posted that they want to speak better. They edited the post to say girls instead of females. We can get into the problem of referring to adult women as girls but for now I'll just accept that they saw that there was a need to use anything other than female as a win.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 minutes ago

"They edited the post to say girls instead of females."

I didn't do that