Comments on: Intergender Friendship

By: Rational Male – Q&A |

Rational Male – Q&A | — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:28:20 +0000

[…] My take in the book, and still is, is that men and women cannot be friends in the same way and to the same degree of intimacy that same sex friendships develop. […]

By: Rollo Tomassi

Rollo Tomassi — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:19:52 +0000

@Annie, you should have a read of these posts too:

http://therationalmale.com/2011/09/19/playing-friends/

http://therationalmale.com/2012/11/29/friends-like-these/

Let me know what you think.

By: annie

annie — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:04:48 +0000

I know you wrote this long ago, but it’s interesting. My pastor was talking about how you’re not supposed to touch until marriage (including sideways hugs, but he’s an extremist). I asked how one differentiates between someone they’re dating and someone who is just a friend and he was horrified and said that women and men should never be friends. Obviously, I disagree. I have used the LJBF line myself and it wasn’t to be a bitch at all. I truly wanted to let the guy down easy (it would be bitchy to say “I don’t want to have sex with you and I never will”) and I did like a lot about him (many of the guys anyway). I think the difference that in all those situations, I was going INTO it just wanting to be friends, I wasn’t looking for a boyfriend/FWB. That was all I intended. I genuinely felt bad I had led the guy on by accident. That’s the hard part, when someone wants more and you … don’t. It ruins a potential friendship. It would be interesting to figure out HOW to be just friends and to keep it that way.

By: Purgatory |

Purgatory | — Wed, 21 May 2014 03:57:23 +0000

[…] at a later date, and how men and women differ in their approaches to friendship based on their same-sex friendships. In all of these I brush a bit into the concept of the “friend zone” and how it’s […]

By: The Mother Of All Management Issues | Writing for (y)EU - ep19

The Mother Of All Management Issues | Writing for (y)EU - ep19 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:49:49 +0000

[…] a universe of theories by itself – in which I just got this never-to-forget piece of wisdom: “Women have boyfriends and girlfriends. If you’re not fucking her, you’re her […]

By: B. Dynamics « the professor

B. Dynamics « the professor — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:00:46 +0000

[…] Intergender friendship – http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/intergender-friendship/ […]

By: congo

congo — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:59:21 +0000

hilarious video!

they’re all aware of the LJBF beta orbiter provisioning dynamic and don’t see a problem in it, while simultaenously those betas who got LJBF’ed still believe in their truest intentions and understanding them better and all that shit. it really disgusts me.

amazing blog, rollo! keep it up!

By: flyfreshandyoung

flyfreshandyoung — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:41:11 +0000

Hilarious.

Especially when the chicks were forced to qualify the “friendship”. Mental gymnastics ensues