Ok...now I don't post threads very often but this one suddenly occurred to me last night when I was posting a reply for someone.

I grew up with mostly male friends and then when I went to University I took my teaching degree where the ratio of males to females was about 1 to 30. I now work in education and have done for 15 years and all the staff I have are female, except my caretaker...so here is my question for consideration.

Do you find it easier to befriend the same sex, the opposite sex or either?

Good lord Dave....there's 30 babes for every 1 guy.
Where do you live ? I'm packing my bags...The heck with it.
I don't need a bag. I'll just fine me a suger mama.

I can see how so going crazy though....so many women, so little time.

It's easy to befriend a woman..She puts me the friend zone without my permission.

When I was a kid.....guys stay with guys.
When I got older I made friends with both.

It's about the same to me. Once we get pass the sexual aspect of it all.

This post was last modified: 08-31-2008 09:41 PM by Lonesome Crow.

In real life I have no female friends and never had. Never really got many chances to befriend with girls in general and even less with ones I would have found to be good company. So yeah I guess I make friends with guys more easily.

In the virtual world of internet however, I guess it is pretty much irrelevant what gender the person has. Have had no problem making friends from both sexes. Wish it would be as easy in the real world too.

Well when I finished my four year course there were around four blokes left that graduated out of around 120 people so yes there would have been plenty of opportunities lol.

Having said that it is just such a female populated career, especially with younger children. I guess I am just more used to being with women so much during the day...they are a catty lot though.....meow...

So Frostburn would you say that you actively discourage getting to know females or is it that you don't get the opportunity? Do you think that it is the way that we approach women and the way that we give out an impression about ourselves?

The internet world is very much different though...time...getting the opportunity to revise and practice what we 'say'.

yeah...they can be catty sometimes. I grew up with 3 sisters.

I worked in electronic manufacturing plant.
there's 250 women and maybe 25 males.
I worked in the office too. I think it helped me to just see them as other human beings.
Plus I was taken already.lol

Verse in my previouse carreer in an electric power generation plant.
There's 75 guys and 4 women.
Our crew were younger and basically we were filled with hormones.
Plus the odd where crazy..there's 10 guys for every woman.
So ...stright across the board you get a sort of mind set talking to a bounch of young hard up guys.lol

But I always had females friends when I was in HS too though.
Not as much as male friends of course.
I was always trying to get out of the freind zone.

I wouldn't want to be 16-25 again...heck no !!!
I couldn't even think straight half of the time when it came to dealing women.
My other head had a mind of it's own. It wakes up before me even.lmao
To top it off women wear perfume with musk.

I dunno..when my partner wants something..she'll talk during sex. I'll say yes to whatever.lol

This post was last modified: 09-01-2008 01:18 AM by Lonesome Crow.

I find it easier to befriend guys. Not sure why but I just find them easier to get to know.

Well, in my personal opinions, girls tend to be less judgemental and more how do you say honest in their friendship. I had some girl pals, not really close, but still, they invited me over for lunches and dinners and baked cookies for me. I sort of was touched. But, eventually, I was not part of their group, so i drifted away, which was sad really, cause for once, I felt that I was part of the group, being their friends. Their warmth really touched me deeply. But i guess, a guy in a group of girls is just like standing out like a sore thumb anyway. =(

Well, its true...but eventually Yin, I don't know about you, but I find guy friends kinda of superficial. I admit I am like that too....Like unless they need you or are interested in you, they don't really care much for you.

I voted Either. I used to work at a place where there was like twice as much girls there then lads. I used to have a GF back then as well. I can make friends with younger guys normally better then older guys but with girls I fined the younger the more difficult it is to make a connection and the older women I fined easier to get alone with. Hope all that made sense. So I voted Either but its kinder the opposite problem I have with girls and the lads.