Men make better friends

I am sorry to go against my gender on this, but men have far better relationships with other men than women do with other women. Since being at IU, for every cool woman I have met, I can honestly say I have met five men who are just as cool. \nMen form stronger bonds with their friends. They are more trustworthy. Men don't get together to gossip or to bash one of their other friends. They simply chill. Furthermore, guys stick together. They are incredibly loyal and inclusive of one another. They don't play games where one friend is invited to a party and the other isn't, they don't purposely leave each other out and they don't try to make each other jealous. I don't even know if guys get jealous. \nMany women, after creating a fuss over being ditched by a friend for a guy, will turn around and do the same thing. Men seem less likely to ditch another guy for their "new girl." When is the last time you heard a guy say, "I really feel left out lately. Dave has been going out so much more with Stacey than with me"?\nMen are more likely to get together for a friendly game of basketball and interact with large groups of other guys. Women don't do that -- unless it is to organize a mass-shopping trip to the mall.\nGranted, some of the male bonding that takes place over beer and porn might not be at the top of women's lists of fun things to do on a Friday night, but at least they aren't sitting around a table saying, "Oh my god, and then she said this and I was like…" \nThere is nothing wrong with the way in which guys interact with one another. Sure, guys don't show their emotions and aren't likely to have a cry fest with their best friend after a hard day at work, but who cares? Too much emotion after a while is nauseating.\nWomen can be contriving, backstabbing and extremely methodical when dealing with other women. They know just the right things to say to get one woman to turn against another and can create a controversy within just seconds of opening their mouths. \nMen won't get offended if one of their friends doesn't want to go out one night. They aren't possessive or overly sensitive. While I applaud the sensitivity other women can have toward each other, it is often misplaced. Women don't take criticism -- no matter how constructive it is. The smallest comments are often blown out of proportion. \nWomen keep track records too. We are good at this. It doesn't take long for us to pull up a date from six months ago and still be pissed off over what happened. For men it's here one day and gone the next. They don't focus on the past. Why bother? Still, there are plenty of women who think having a series of talks to straighten things out is the end-all solution. It's like a parent-teacher conference -- only worse.\nMen are by no means perfect. They still do stupid things when they are all together that can be extremely irritating to witness. But I like their general attitude about friendships. There are a lot of great women out there that make for good friends, but I have to say that friendship is the one area men are better at than women.