Honestly, I feel the guy presenting and asking that question was seeking one specific answer for he wasn't objective like he should be unless he wanted to prove himself right.
He pushed women indirectly to make them say guys and girls can't be just friends.
Another element is that he's asking college guys who want to try adulthood with sex, alcohol, smoking, and maybe drugs.
He won't have the proper mature answer behind that question.
They can be friends, friends with benefits, a couple, enemies, it all depends on both persons intentions and goals in that relationship.
A guy may want sex and a girl friendship but it can be vice versa.
If they couldn't be friends, it would mean that men and women are just meant to satisfy each others with intercourse as the main point.
Life isn't about sex and those guys will realize it just like those young ladies when they get older and have more responsibilities than just studying, sleeping, working part time, eating, and drinking.
The age of the people asked plays a role.
Don't expect a bunch of children to answer the same.
Boys and girls will be disgusted saying the other sex is disgusting but as they mature, they see them as the friend for sex from puberty especially when sex becomes at the legal age.
Then, after doing all these dumb things, guys will wake up, make friends for the sake of friends, choose one of them or out of the group to marry, and that's it, he won't be sleeping with every girl he knows unless he can't be faithful.
I believe they can, but it likely depends on the two people.
For me, it is no problem at all and I have male friendships I really enjoy.
As long as both people are on the same page and one isn't hoping they will become more than friends, I don't see why men and women can't be friends.
I'd say that that particular video was made with the goal of presenting only that interviewer's personal opinion and I wouldn't be surprised if he cut out any responses that contradicted that opinion; he also appears to have asked only a handful of white students at one school, which doesn't even come close to being a representative sample.
Honestly, this video is just bad and not at all objective. Plenty of men and women are friends and/or close friends without it going beyond friendship. I have had and continue to have female friends in my life without issue, even throughout adolescence.
I'm the only guy in 4 people friend group and never wanted any sexual relationships with any of them.
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Yeah, it's definitely possible, in the same way gay people can have friends of the same sex.
You can admit that one of your friends is attractive and even consider them sexually appealing without having any interest whatsoever in actually DOING anything sexual with them.
This question appears a lot on this website. The short answer is no. The reality is, friendship between a man and woman is not equivalent to same sex friendships. When trust is shared between a man and woman, an emotional bond is inevitably formed and this connection either consummates in a relationship or must terminate on unequivocal terms.
Men and women cannot just be friends. Look at all the idiotic drama on GAG when boys and girls (not men and women) talk about "my best guy friend" , absurd. People create all of their own drama and I have no sympathy.
The video is accurate
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