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2012-10-07 10:18 4008464 Anonymous (1346499670602.jpg 1600x1000 319kB)
Can a man and a woman ever be just really close-knit platonic friends?

4 min later 4008499 Anonymous
>>4008464 Yes, if the man finds the woman very ugly and/or undatable.

6 min later 4008509 Anonymous
>>4008464 Hey let's ignore the last 200 thousand years where the primary reasons the two genders met was pretty crucial for ... uh, us sticking around as a species? Men and women fuck. That's the end of it. Men and men and friends. Women and women are friends.

10 min later 4008522 Anonymous
If she doesn't make his dick hard, yeah.

10 min later 4008525 Anonymous
I have two girls who are friends. I'd fuck them if I had the chance but I'm not sure I'd want a relationship with them.

13 min later 4008539 Anonymous
My best friend is male, we are 100% platonic, and he also has several other close female friends. he's not gay either.

15 min later 4008549 Anonymous
If they are siblings

15 min later 4008551 Anonymous
>>4008525 There we go. >>4008539 Seriously ask if he thinks you're fuckable/attractive/physically interesting/etc. You'll be quite surprised.

15 min later 4008553 Anonymous
Oh fuck off, neckbeards. I've had a female friend since childhood and we work perfectly well together. I have absolutely no feelings for her, and she's been in a relationship for 2-3 years now. We have two more close guy friends and it's all working well. In the last 15 or so years no one in the group has hit on anyone else.

17 min later 4008557 Anonymous
Of course, as long as the girl is hideous (or the guy doesn't have any feelings for her).

19 min later 4008569 Anonymous
>>4008551 He already has a girlfriend, and frequently tells me about why I'm ugly, so no.

25 min later 4008597 Anonymous
Two of my closest friends are girls. They both were attracted to me but I never did anything about it, well I put my hand in one of the girls knickers but that was as far as it got. Reason? I don't know, they're both very attractive women. I guess it just never felt right. But now they both have boyfriends and that doesn't feel right either. Especially as both of the guys are dicks. Also both these girls have been really kind to me whereas the last woman I fell in love with manipulated me and treated me like shit. It's almost like I'm not attracted to people that actually care about me. FML

35 min later 4008646 Anonymous (A S23_p12.jpg 600x427 181kB)
>>4008557 What about scenario where none of them has the balls to push into relationship?

37 min later 4008659 Anonymous
Yes. But I say that as a happily married man, and my friend has a 7 y/o son and is also in a relationship with a guy I know.

40 min later 4008678 Anonymous
No cause the bitch will always fall for the guy.

43 min later 4008693 Anonymous
The mere presence of a small physical attraction does not exclude a friendly relationship. Just as the need to take a dump does not result in you shitting your pants, you exercise restraint and haul your ass to a toilet. Anyone demanding thought control and 100% pure platonic friendly interest to qualify for their company is nothing but a batshit insane narcissistic asshole and best avoided as such.

45 min later 4008709 Anonymous
>>4008464 I have a female friend that I really enjoy the company of, and find attractive, but would not date because I've heard tales of her promiscuity. Her status in my brains as used goods has made me uninterested in dating her, but she's so fun to be around that I like her as a friend. This is only important because R9K says it's impossible.

1 hours later 4008793 Anonymous
>>4008464 Yes. Unless your penis does all the thinking for you, then you're just a horny idiot.

1 hours later 4008838 Anonymous
yes i do believe so. me and this girl have been friends since the moment we met, both of us are attractive individuals, met at 13 were friends all through high school. they was attraction there but we both would rather be friends. i set her up with my friends if she wants or wing man her, she sets me up with her friends, its great. there was a period of about 4 months after high school where we were fucking each other multiple times a week. sex was actually so good. still i highly rate it. we stopped because she got a boy friend, stayed friends. flirt every now and then if we are both single and drunk, but other than that we are both pretty much plutonic. both had at at least 2, year long relations ships since then, both 25 now. still friends.

2 hours later 4009135 Anonymous
Absolutely. My closest friends are male, and I'm not attracted to any of them, nor are they attracted to me. I think the thing is that they are social and have their own lives outside me. The problem with say most people on r9k is that if they had a female friend they would fixate on her solely and become attracted to her as they don't talk to anyone else. The difference is that these guys have good experience with women and know how to be just friends with them, not to mention they talk to lots of women IRL all the time/go out often, so they can't fixate themselves on just 1 member of the opposite sex. Basically yes it's possible if you're not socially retarded/have friends. If you have no one else then it's pretty likely that you'll become attracted to the one person you talk to.

2 hours later 4009148 Anonymous
>>4009135 >My closest friends are male, and I'm not attracted to any of them, nor are they attracted to me >nor are they attracted to me Yes they are.

2 hours later 4009149 Anonymous
I only have one guy friend, all my other friends are girls since I'm not interested in football and thus cant fit in with 99% of guys in my country.

2 hours later 4009152 Anonymous
>>4009135 >nor are they attracted to me. It's so cute when women think this. Then again, she could be ugly.

2 hours later 4009156 Anonymous
>>4009135 protip: they are attracted to you and your boobs

2 hours later 4009172 Anonymous
>>4009148 >>4009152 >>4009156 lulz, penis-thinkers

2 hours later 4009180 Anonymous
>>4008693 Fucking this. It's not an either/or proposition and it's all a matter of degrees.

2 hours later 4009189 Anonymous
>>4008464 when theyre 8 yeah

2 hours later 4009212 Anonymous
>>4008509 I have female friends that i'm only vaguely aware are female. I see them as males.

2 hours later 4009215 Anonymous
Yes. They can just be friends. Yes. There will always be a sexual element. Just because I wouldn't say no to having sex with doesn't mean I don't want to be around her because she's also a fucking joy to be around simply because she's a funny cunt. If the opportunity came up and I knew it wouldn't get in the way of our platonic friendship then of course I'd have sex with her - doesn't mean we can't be platonic friends, too.

2 hours later 4009223 Anonymous
Of course they fucking can. You know, it's actually possible to not think of an entire gender purely in terms of sexual pleasure.

2 hours later 4009230 Anonymous
>last night >go out and get drunk with platonic female friend >come back to mine >watch shitty late night television >we start falling asleep and we spoon/hold each other while falling asleep >wake up with her in my arms after a night of rubbing dat smooth skin >not sure if there was sexual tension Yes I'd say it's possible.

2 hours later 4009265 Anonymous
ITT: Robots who usually deny "animal instincts" now endorse them. Really? I have a few female close friends myself and I would never start anything sexual with them. They aren't even ugly to me, but they resemble "female male friends" more than anything else. What's so hard to believe about this?

2 hours later 4009269 Anonymous
>>4008464 Long as the bitch is ugly, yeah

2 hours later 4009293 Anonymous
>>4008464 >implying i don't want to fuck all of my attractive male friends and even some of my attractive girl friends IT'S INSTINCT

2 hours later 4009326 Anonymous
Male are friends with males. Females are friends with females. If a male and a female claims to be friends, one of them wants to fuck the other, no exceptions. If he or she claims its not true, its the subconscious level of the brain that does, and that is the only reason he/she sticks around. Millions of years of basic genetic structure rooted to the very core of mankind, doesn't just get tossed out over night.

2 hours later 4009332 Anonymous
Yes But only if they're brother and sister with no incest fetishes and they don't hate each other's guts

2 hours later 4009360 Anonymous
I would say I have a few male acquaintances but no real male friends. It seems whenever I try to move from just having a nice chat in classes to hanging out they develop more of an attraction and I just don't feel the same way. When I got my first boyfriend I noticed a lot of guys I was friendly with wouldn't come near me when my boyfriend was around, even if I made a bigger effort to hang out with them more. I think it's because guys seem to think in the mind set of 'if she doesn't reciprocate then cut it off and leave'. I don't want to lose their friendship but nor do I want them to think I'm leading them on in anyway.

3 hours later 4009422 Anonymous
>>4009360 And you're few and far in between. Most girls use the male acquittance to get fed attention all the time, cuddle with them and such, lead them on. But in the end they don't want anything more then attention and free stuff. Which the male is too blind to see and constantly make up excuses in his head that she is only playing hard to get.

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