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The girlfriend-zone
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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I hate that this is satire but also pretty much true. Men are not generally socialized to recognize uncomplicated, unsexual fondness for a woman.
I'm not sure I'm even capable of not wanting to sleep with a woman that I get along well with. Like, I don't ACT on those feelings so as not to fuck up good friendship but they are there.
It's okay to feel like that, you just need to be in control of your actions and in your case you are! So good job
Thanks for sharing. I definitely find people far more attractive once I get to know them than as strangers.
On the flipside it was very difficult as a nerdy nice guy to get some women to understand that when I said lets do x I really meant as friends because not everyone is actually sexually interested in you. Sometimes I just wanted to see a movie with someone I thought was a friend
Yeah! It's an intersectional, social issue. I've had just a couple woman adamantly insist to me that men could not be friends with women, in a completely platonic way.
I think they are wrong, in an absolute sense, but in popular Western society, they are right 8 times out of 10.
The thing about socialization is that it's ongoing throughout life. A guy having male friends who can tell him "idk bro sounds like platonic affection" can help him learn even as an adult
I very much agree. I had to be told this, myself, before I really understood that I'd allowed a toxic sort of personality trait to cultivate.
Eh, I'm just aplatonic. I don't get anything from friendship and I generally don't understand it. It makes it very difficult to date.
Do you mean aplotinic with promising sexual partners (presumably women)? or, are you generally aplotinic, as in you lack interest in friendships with anyone?