Why Men Make Better Friends Than Women

[Rhondazvous]

Good joke, but it probably says more about what dogs we men are than it does our qualities as friends.  Personally, I've nearly always gravitated toward having women for friends.  I've just always found them easier to talk with than my own kind.  They're generally better listeners and seem more often to bring up more closely related topics.  There have been exceptions on both sides of course.  The first and last date I ever went on after answering an ad was with a horrible, neurotic person.  At one point I remember her stating as an invariable fact that women were more in touch with their feelings than men.  An ironic statement considering the source.

It’s funny how men and women are opposites yet we do make good friends. Talking to a man is not all like here’s a nickel, give me five pennies. Many men do such a good job of hiding their feelings that many women think they don’t have feelings. From where then did we get Hamlet and The Canterbury Tales? I get along with women very well, but there is something about men—talking to them, listening to them, learning from them—there’s an energy, the gender principle that even gay men exude. Maybe I’ve lost touch with the concept of men as dogs because I know that for every man who ravages the nations there’s a woman saying “Oh, let them eat cake.”