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Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends"
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Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends"
From Scientific American, an answer to a question from the ages

"The results suggest large gender differences in how men and women experience opposite-sex friendships. Men were much more attracted to their female friends than vice versa. Men were also more likely than women to think that their opposite-sex friends were attracted to them—a clearly misguided belief. In fact, men’s estimates of how attractive they were to their female friends had virtually nothing to do with how these women actually felt, and almost everything to do with how the men themselves felt—basically, males assumed that any romantic attraction they experienced was mutual, and were blind to the actual level of romantic interest felt by their female friends. Women, too, were blind to the mindset of their opposite-sex friends; because females generally were not attracted to their male friends, they assumed that this lack of attraction was mutual. As a result, men consistently overestimated the level of attraction felt by their female friends and women consistently underestimated the level of attraction felt by their male friends."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...st-friends
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So this is why men always complain about the imaginary 'friend-zone.'
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I roared with laughter on reading what you had written, because the thought occurred to me the word male could be replaced by America or American dream, and female by other countries.

Anyway a doubt the sample was made in France
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Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends"
How to enter the friend zone.
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Well, that does it. If we can't just be friends, we might as well just have sex and get it over with.
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Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends"
Umm, the girls don't wanna...
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Aww, why must everything be so complicated?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
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(October 28, 2012 at 9:58 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Aww, why must everything be so complicated?

I cannot help but read your posts in Patrick Stewart's voice.
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Its as though we know what he is thinking


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Lol, Troi is empathic not telepathic. She senses feelings not thoughts.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
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