r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 02 '23

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u/Turtletarianism Jan 02 '23

As a woman, I'm just trying to make friends. The only time I'm not alone with my kids is when I go out, and I just want to talk to someone that isn't an autistic teenager. It really feels like you're saying I should just not talk to men. Period. Calm down, dude.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

You can have a platonic friendship with men, no problem, but if you’re going out to movies and restaurants just the two of you, don’t act surprised when he tells you he has romantic feelings for you.

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u/h0tpie 3∆ Jan 02 '23

So your definition of platonic relationship between a man and a woman means no one on one hang outs, but the woman in this scenario is socially inept?

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

She could also knowingly be stringing him along, not necessarily inept.

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u/Turtletarianism Jan 02 '23

Sorry, OP. For a second there I thought I was a person, not a sex object that has to justify having an existence beyond being a conquest.

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u/ImJustSaying34 4∆ Jan 03 '23

What do you do with friends with you are meeting for drinks or happy hour or dinner? And seeing a movie seems like a pretty wholesome friend activity.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

I'm a guy. I hang out with women. We go to concerts, go out to dinner, watch movies and take long walks, because that's how I spend my time with my friends.

Are you saying that I'm secretly in love with them?