Male and Female Friends

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Before I start, I want to clarify that I'm not writing this because I'm confused about my sexuality and think I might be gay or something. It's just a question.

Anyway, is it odd that I have more male friends than female friends and prefer to hang out more with my male friends than my female friends? There was only one time where I hung out with a female friend -- as far as I know -- and that was at the end of the school year when I finished the fifth grade I chose to repeat at another school.

During my years at the high school, I talked more with my male friends than with my female friends. I didn't ignore the females, of course, and would chat with them, but I seemed to engage my "bros" more in conversation and such.

Thoughts?

 

Naw!! The only friends i have IRL are male. I do talk to more females than male online but still. I dont think its weird at all~

 

Not odd at all. You can hang out with whoever you want so I don't think it's odd. It just happens to be that way.

 

Its not weird. I have the best of both worlds but I am much more comfortable talking with my bros just because we have a lot more in common. Now if I could find some girls who wouldn't mind hanging out and watching anime and playing video games, I'd be game.

 

Not odd. People don't (or at least shouldn't) gravitate towards sexes, but personalities.
I've always mixed with both groups, i like men usually more so as friends because they're more reliable, i can usually tell when they're being straight with me and are upfront more so then women.
However i know plety of women i'd rather talk to then men, especially serious stuff or stuff that involves something a little more light hearted.

But in the end, no, the sex of a friend doesn't matter.

 

Before I had more girl friends than guys but now I have more guy friends. I had someone tell me that they though I was gay because they only seen me hang out with girls often than guys which is strange because you would think its the opposite way around. I don't really know. People judge weird. Lol

 

I used to have more friends that were girls, but now I have almost no friends that are girls.

I kinda miss having female friends, there's something nice about having a friend of the opposite sex that you can talk to as easily as you can someone of the same sex. As awkward as this may sound sometimes I get tired of being around guys all the time, I wish there were more girls in my life (lol.)

 

As it stands currently, I think I have a 3:1 ratio of girl to guy friends, lol.

While I have been gradually making more guy friends, I always seem to forge friendships with girls a lot quicker. Most of my friends throughout high school were girls (out of the 10 main friends I had, 7 were girls and 3 were guys). I never really saw a problem with it though; who you click with is just who you click with. As long as you're able to make connections to people, that's all that matters most.

 

As you can tell from the responses in here, it's really pretty mixed. What it comes down to is how you mesh together--certain personality traits may have something to do with someone's gender (or not!), but on the whole, I don't think there is any universal answer. Personally I've found in the last few years that the majority of my close friends are male. I'm not too sure why. A bitter part of me would like to say that my seeming bias against female friends is just because there tends to be more drama in those relationships, but that's not always true. I've had plenty friendships with guys riddled with drama, hah.

It's also what I'm looking for. Right now I have only one close female friend, who I talk to every two to three weeks. That's not nearly as frequent as my male friends--who are on a daily basis, usually--but I would still say I am emotionally closer to her than I am to any other. That may be because I have known her the longest, but talking to a girl about things like friendship or love or stuff like that will often offer a different kind of comfort or understanding than it will with a guy. By comparison, though, we also tend to complain a lot, talk endlessly about our emotions, etc. It's a bit... simpler, with my guy friends, most of the time. Not to say that we can't or don't have similar conversations, but there is a difference, to me. They're more content to sit back and talk about casual topics, which I don't find with female friends.

Who I talk to has no indication of my sexuality, nor should it for anyone. Yes, I am into guys, but I don't consciously befriend guys with romantic or sexual intentions. It is very possible to have platonic male friends if you're into dudes, or platonic female friends if you're into chicks. As I said, I think who you talk to boils down to what you want. If I want a shoulder to cry on or emotional sympathy, I'll go to a female friend more often than not. For just casual shooting the breeze, it can be anyone.

 

I think is normal, and when you are a teenager it is even more comon to have more male friends than females, as each gender starts to develop different tastes and mature at different rates..
Although some of my best friends today are women i like to mantain a ratio of more male friends than females (not consciently) , only because I found that everyments were there are more females than males they start to make more clicks, and little groups, and there is more tension beteween those groups.. is strange, when females start haging with males they get way more fun.

 

Nothing wrong with that, in my opinion, I have more female friends than male friends. Female friends are actually easier to talk to, in my opinion, especially since most of the guys in my school talk about sports and video games I don't like (I am not into that stuff, so the only logical thing to do, since I wanted friends, was to go talk to the other people).

 

I'd rather hang with my bros than my . . . female friends. It's more because I get along with them easier, and I can be myself. I know a lot of girls would probably say they don't care if you are yourself around them but, I tend to disagree. I don't think sexuality comes into play on friends at all. If they are your friends, they are your friends. I'd never try to hook up with my friends, mostly because they are all butt ugly, but I digress. Just be you and you'll have no regrets ^^

 

I don't think it is weird, who you get along with is who you get along with. You shouldn't make friends because of their sex, but their personality, you should be friends with the people who you have fun with. Friends normally have some of the same interests with you, men are more likely to enjoy videogames, but girls seem to prefer simple talking, I have no female friends and so I think you are lucky there, the things I enjoy most are videogames and anime/manga, the only people I know who like that are guys, so I get along more with guys. I just find it easier to talk to them.