Gender balance amongst your friends

Are your friends mostly...

  • Female

    Votes: 2 28.6%

  • Male

    Votes: 4 57.1%

  • 50-50

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Total voters
    7
Fwiffo

Fwiffo

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I'm thinking of setting up a patio drinks party in the financial district to celebrate my emancipation from that 10 week course. I'm trying to invite people whom I knew professionally in insurance and maybe a few banks. Off the top of my head, I could think of 9 or 10 women and only 3 men.

Am I abnormal? Do I have social challenges when it comes to male camaraderie?
 
Fwiffo said:
I'm thinking of setting up a patio drinks party in the financial district to celebrate my emancipation from that 10 week course. I'm trying to invite people whom I knew professionally in insurance and maybe a few banks. Off the top of my head, I could think of 9 or 10 women and only 3 men.

Am I abnormal? Do I have social challenges when it comes to male camaraderie?
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Are these people really friends or work acquaintances?
 
I have minimal interest in women socially. If they are not relatives or romantic interests, I don't need to hear a woman prattle on about that mundanity they consider worth discussing.
I suspect that you are less confrontational and see men at work as threats and competitors and, errantly, see women as confidants.
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If it's a party you want, you need at least 10% intersex. The freaky ones, not the self-righteous ones.

On a serious note:

These days I only have a few close friends. But when I was younger and socialized more often I think my friend circle was probably 4 men for 6 women
 
COG said:
I suspect that you are less confrontational and see men at work as threats and competitors and, errantly, see women as confidants.
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Can you come do my review for next year yes? I'd rather you than what I heard, "Can always be relied on to take a hill, but frequently leaves behind dead bodies...friend and foe." And everyone at work is a threat and competitor - in fact my archnemesis is a woman - no shortage of people who will steal, stab or rape you the moment you take your eye off the ball for a paltry $10,000 more on their gross salary.

Thruth said:
Are these people really friends or work acquaintances?
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I'm not sure if I have any friends that I made after university outside of the professional world. All of them were through work, or some competitor, or some competitor's cousin or spouse. I reckon it's because I don't go to temple, or join the Rotary Club, or volunteer to save diseased dolphins, or whatever. Are you trying to point out something?

My male friends unrelated to work consists of two in university whom we "started a website" and one from high school, and one from middle school. I lost touch with everyone else.
 
Fwiffo said:
Can you come do my review for next year yes? I'd rather you than what I heard, "Can always be relied on to take a hill, but frequently leaves behind dead bodies...friend and foe." And everyone at work is a threat and competitor - in fact my archnemesis is a woman - no shortage of people who will steal, stab or rape you the moment you take your eye off the ball for a paltry $10,000 more on their gross salary.



I'm not sure if I have any friends that I made after university outside of the professional world. All of them were through work, or some competitor, or some competitor's cousin or spouse. I reckon it's because I don't go to temple, or join the Rotary Club, or volunteer to save diseased dolphins, or whatever. Are you trying to point out something?

My male friends unrelated to work consists of two in university whom we "started a website" and one from high school, and one from middle school. I lost touch with everyone else.
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No, just asking if they are truely friends.
 
Perhaps the constant inebriation leads to a state more attuned to the female mind?
 
Rambo said:
That's why you're special
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It is a new age, Rambs. Soon, in my great province, health cards and driver's license won't list your gender of birth, it'll be whatever you identify as. Welcome to gender-bending Ontario!
 
My ratio would be about 5 female friends for every male friend. I can't tolerate most men. I can't tolerate most women either but the proportion of decent intelligent fun women is higher than the man sample.

Women read books, like music - wide range from opera to rock to jazz etc, like to think, talk about meaningful stuff, care for people, have fun etc - they don't walk around clanging their balls together in an effort to appear "strong" and most women don't give a fuck about sport - nor do I.
 
I have significantly more female friends than males - much to the consternation of my lady.

It must be said, i am my own best friend. I am the most interesting, intelligent, fun, good-looking person i know.
 
It's good to know I'm not the only one who finds the male camaraderie challenging. It never works out like Band of Brothers for me.
 
Outside of friendly neighbors, wives of my friends and the like, I have very few female friends--only a couple, really, at this time. I have a great many male friends. At least one of these friendships dates back to the late 1940s. In about an hour I will be getting together with an old classmate I will have known for 60 years come September.
 
Hmm, fxh and I are in the minority here.

It might have something to do with never being in a team sport. I was in basketball when I was younger but I had an early growth spurt so by the time I was a teenager, I was the shortest. Being tall at such a young age meant I developed the skills of Shaq and stood underneath the net all the time.

From then on, I played racquetball, golf and a whole bunch of other solitary sports. All these stories of people playing baseball, hockey or footy or whatever and bonding after their league games never happened to me.

60 years is a long time mate. Cherish that.
 
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