Does gender play any role in friendship ?

India
November 21, 2011 4:50am CST
I have many friends including both boys and girls. I have more good friends on girls side. I think gender doesn't have any significant role in friendship. What is your opinion. Don't you have good girl friends (friends)?
12 responses
• Indonesia
21 Nov 11
I myself find it hard to say that gender doesn't have significant role inside of my friendship. Because in fact, although I'm a girl, I have more boy (space) friends than girl (space) friends. I don't know, but I feel much more comfortable being around boys than girls. Maybe because I think most my girl (space) friends are so childish and overacted. And I feel safer around boys, because when I'm near them, there's no one make fun of me or laugh at me... And also, nobody teased me when I passed the streets with my boy (space) friends...
• India
21 Nov 11
Hm! Do you have classification in your friends? I mean that classification of good friends,best friends, moderate friend etc. so what is the name of your best friends ?
• India
21 Nov 11
me too. What about you guys ? Are you curious? Lets see what the reply is .
• Indonesia
21 Nov 11
Well, as long as I go along with them and feel comfortable near them, I consider them as good friends. But until this time, I never consider someone as my best friend because I think a best friend of mine has to keep my secret and never stabs me from behind. And until this time, the one and only my best friend is I myself :D (I'm difficult to trust someone completely, but my friends usually think that I'm a trustworthy person)
@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
27 Nov 11
I have more girl friends since I am more comfortable being friends with the same gender since I can relate with them, but i also have a few good friends which ae guys, they are really few and they would rather hang out with their guy friends and play computer games than hang out with us girls.
• India
27 Nov 11
Whom do you think is the best among both the the genders ?
@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
27 Nov 11
I can't really say who is the bets among them since I may be biased, I hang out with girls more.. I think there are both good and bad in goth genders. Guys can really keep secrets while girls sometimes share them with their other close friends. Girls can be really good in giving advice but guys would not give any..
• India
29 Nov 11
Wow that is something different. So you need advices ? I do not like to have any advices from my teachers as well as from my parents. If you need good advices you please come to my home. You will get the best advices you want. I will be ready with some special dishes for you.
• Philippines
21 Nov 11
i think gender is not used as a basis to choose a friend, though i have more guy friends than girls. i just feel more comfortable being with guys than with girls, since high school until i finished school, but when i started working, i learned to be friends with my girl office mates. but this time my bestfriend and my closest friends are all guys.
• India
22 Nov 11
Don't you have good girl friends ? I think i have more boy friends in my life. In my school days I used to mingle less with girls. I think this is the reason for it. What do you think ?
@mariahhh (1328)
• United Arab Emirates
21 Nov 11
For me, gender does not have significant role in friendship. I have girl friends, boy friends, and gays. I love all of them, we all bond really well despite our difference in gender.
@mariahhh (1328)
• United Arab Emirates
21 Nov 11
Hmm, it depends. I sometimes prefer guys than girls. Because with guys, there is no drama, they are very straight forward, and if I have problem with guys, they can give me advice about it. With girls, sometimes they will easily get sad when you don't text them in a day, or if you did not reply to their messages. But I enjoy being with them, especially if we are going out shopping, and overnight stays.
• India
21 Nov 11
Hm! So you prefer more girl friends or boy friends ?
• Philippines
22 Nov 11
That would depend upon the person's preferences. If you feel comfortable telling your secrets to boys then go for it, otherwise tell it to the boys. But, gender should not be a consideration in choosing a friend because one person cannot play the same role at the same time.
• India
22 Nov 11
So you have more girl friends in you your life ? or boy friends? Whom do you think is the best ?
• United States
22 Nov 11
Gender shouldn't play a role in your friendship because everyone is human! You should be equally as friendly to girls as boys but I feel that (in my case since I'm a male) that female friendships are more intimate, and, well it's harder to explain. My close female friends, I'm usually attracted to in some way, so the relationships are more "soft". With males, I provide a "tough love" relationship because guys are guys, and I can't be intimate with another guy because that's totally against my sexuality. So you shouldn't have a gender bias but when you have friends of different genders you usually treat them a tad bit differently.
• India
22 Nov 11
Hm! So do you have contact with all the friends which you have build in your life ?
• India
21 Nov 11
well friendship docent have any thing to do with gender, when a person is a friend he or she should be like a friend and there is no other special treatment in friendship based on gender , well according to my view i will not give any importance to gender when it comes to friendship for me both are equal
• India
22 Nov 11
So do you give classification on your friendship ? I mean the classification on basis of dear ones,best ones,Moderate friend something like that ?
@beamer88 (4259)
• Philippines
21 Nov 11
I believe they don't. Any friendship transcends gender. True, there are those all-girls or all-boys bonding moments but that's all there is to it, just bonding with your own gender. It's the animal nature in us, I think :) Personally, what's important is that your friends will be there for you as you would be when they need you.
• India
21 Nov 11
It's great from you. So you have ore boy friends or girl friends ?
@julianmac (396)
• Malaysia
21 Nov 11
Hi, I don't give importance to gender when it comes to friendship. I like to make friends with everybody as long as they are nice and decent people. Friendship depends upon similarity of interests and how far one is willing to stretch and grow.
• India
21 Nov 11
hm! So you have more boy friends or girl friends ? Which one is far good ? I think both are lovely. What do you think?
@SIMPLYD (90727)
• Philippines
22 Nov 11
Gender is never a problem with me when i am making friends. Yes, i have my group of girl friends but i also have some gay friends. I may seldom meet my gay friends but i can really relate to them and enjoy their company whenever we jam. I think it is a matter of having the same interests in life that bonds friends together, not the gender.
@umesh9889 (201)
• India
21 Nov 11
Well opinions changes from people to people. Friendship has no bars of any age, gender, caste and creed. I too had may friends but most of them are boys but my best friend is a girl only so it really
• India
21 Nov 11
Do you have classification of friends ? I mean that classification on basis of good friends,rare friend,moderate friend,best friend etc.
@boyuancy (1708)
• India
21 Nov 11
I think it is easier for a girl and boy to be friends and it helps too. It provides an opposite POV. But most such friendships get ruined with one of them developing feelings for the other.
• India
22 Nov 11
I didn't get you what you had answered. What do you men by, developing feelings for others ? Does it means that friendship turning to love ?