Do straight men actually enjoy talking to women platonically?

[Telekinetic-Potato]

A few days ago I see a clip of ufc champ Sean Strickland talking about he doesn't want to talk to women if he's not trying to bang them so as a married man he sees no reason to have woman friends.

She tries to convince him it would be worthwhile so of course she starts talking about plants and cooking.

But earlier today I realized something.

I'm hanging out with this girl at my job she's from PA and a dude goes up to her and they start talking about basically the same conversation that happened with the ufc guy. I had to walk away because it almost made me laugh out loud.

But then me and her got lunch and we had amazing conversations about music and her band that records on 4 track tape, we found a mozzarella spot, joked about our wise ass bosses, related over building our lives despite setbacks and generally spent an hour having some harmless fun. She complained to me about all the guys trying to fuck her. I'm thinking to myself am I crazy for thinking she's gay as fuck and then she starts talking about her girlfriend. 😂

I dunno, my conversations with random women tend to be fun and about something tangible where with random dudes they want to talk about how celebrities look and who their favorite marvel character is like I don't fucking care. Learn how to drive the forklift without crashing into everything and then compare yourself to iron man.

[NathanDavis]

some will... others will not

if by "platonically" you mean friends, then yeah... I've had friends for 20 years or more even, lol

and at leas to me, it was the most normal thing ever... to have both male and female friends

as for the "wanting to fuck" that's what romantic relationships are for... and that's what I had with my girlfriends, but not my friends... lol

[DreamCrescent]

and then the forklift part?

[NathanDavis]

@DreamCrescent what's that? lol

[DreamCrescent]

hehe joking. the last sentence in the question. i don’t know apparently before enjoying a conversation with anyone you shouldn’t smash walls i suppose 🤷‍♀️

[NathanDavis]

@DreamCrescent lmfao... now I get it

I didn't read the description

however though... two of my good feiendd, became my girlfriends after some time... but that was back in school days

[NathanDavis]

[MrChinaski]

The link is marginally more subtle, for me at least.

1. Most people are pretty interesting once you get to know them well enough.

2. Sex is a compelling reason to invest time in getting to know someone.

So you end up talking to women you 'want to bang', so to speak.

[Iron_Man]

If your new female friend is in her 20s put her in the women’s professional football league and you’ll have something in common. American Tackle football 🏈 That’s what I did with my ex-girlfriend and she played. It was awesome and she had no experience and they traveled all around the United States.

[slatyb]

I do. I will happily pay for dinner with an interesting woman.

[DonaldDarko]

I talk to woman platonically. Some of them it pisses off.

[WhitneySnow]

I agree with you

[sirderpsalot123]

Women can be cool too