>>11395449Define friend. I think we tend to think of friends as people we interact with frequently and enjoy being around / working with, but don't want to be sexual with. There are many types of friendship. Essentially I'm saying I don't think men and women can be friends, in the sense of frequent or more intimate (there's that word) discussions, without either disinterest or repulsion, or stronger attachment, forming. From attachment comes mutual care and concern, which is a form of intimacy.
Eh, whatever. It really depends on the framework the interaction is taking place in as well. Hence the concept of a "work wife", an interaction in the workplace which doesn't extend much beyond. Many variations. Can't see a reason to answer beyond to say the range at which you'll have a stable long term friendship is small, can't expect to have a male friendship with a woman. Perhaps like that poster above said, women don't seem to natively understand honor or comradery and don't build social structures along these lines, therefore their notion of friendship is as they say, "tend and befriend" (and backstab, maneuver, control the flow of resources, dominate and abuse other women, etc).
