Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends"

WarriorAngel01 · Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 1968 Location: In yo face

...according to a Scientific American article. Stephen Colbert probably has the best take on it.

And here's the link to the article in question.
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Toku · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 2274 Location: ★NO RUNNING →

I've actually assumed that every friendship I've had was platonic until proven otherwise.

aka I'm pretty romantically dense. >.>
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WarriorAngel01 · Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 1968 Location: In yo face

I'm the same way, but apparently that's normal for women lol
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Divinus Fulmen · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:59 am Post subject:

According to that article, we can't solely because men find women sexually attractive.

Time to tell any bi males you know that they can't be friends with anyone now.
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Ruilus · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:14 am Post subject:

A healthy man is focused on ensuring the continuity of the human race at all times. Take General Petraeus. Guy already had a woman, but he's so committed, so devoted to the future of our country that he mated with another as an added precaution.
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Conn · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:28 am Post subject:

I don't doubt that there's some truth to it, but that article doesn't actually say anything. It doesn't give any hard statistics, just vague comparisons. Men are four to ten times more likely to see romantic attraction as a benefit of friendship, but what numbers are we dealing with? 40-100% vs 10%, or 4-10% vs 1%?

Capt. Velocity · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:31 am Post subject:

This nonsense is what passes for scientific "study" now? All the "researchers" must be crazy hacks or bitter about rejection. You can be attracted and ignore/suppress attraction and some people are asexual. Of course there are general differences, but it's not as significant they claim.
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Conn · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:34 am Post subject:

Capt. Velocity · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:39 am Post subject:

I just said it was possible. It still would mean they can.
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Sunny · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 9750

Jean-Sébastien · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:51 am Post subject:

I have to strongly disagree. I have several female friends I see as just that, friends. My best friend and confident for the past decade has been a girl and they're is not unresolved sexual tension in that friendship. Smile

Shiv:) · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 6484 Location: Playing ToHR

I feel like it may just be their population that they picked, I think its interesting and on some degrees it makes sense, but I'm sure with lots of trials with more diversity we'd get results closer to what everyone is saying. I can see the gender difference in the general attraction factor, but the whole clouded conception of the others' feelings I find can go both ways, or not at all.
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Sunny · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 9750

Yeah, I doubt that anyone can deny that attraction always exist.

The problem is their "research question." If you look at the study, they didn't want to just answer the question of "Can men and women be just friends?" They wanted to prove it and so what you see happen is a classic case of selective evidence. That's why I think it's a fraudulent concept with a fraudulent scientific basis.

Also in the research article, it seems like all of the researchers are girls except for one guy. So I'm curious as to how that turned out for them. ; )
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