Why can't women and men be just friends? Well, there's a scene in When Harry Met Sally where Billy Crystal explains that no man can be friends with a woman because all he really wants is sexual favors. Meg Ryan, typical woman that she is, denies this. I was in Sociology class in high school when I brought up this scene. True to the movie, every woman in the class denied it, stating that they have male friends who are nothing more than friends. Every guy in the room bowed his head and didn't say a word.
Does anyone find that odd? Women deny that men only want to sleep with them. How do they know? Well, the fact is that they don't. Trust me ladies, it's true. There's not a man on Earth who can, in good conscience, deny that the sole reason he's friends with a woman is because somewhere in the back of his mind (or maybe right in the front of his mind) he knows he wants to ride her like a rodeo horse. Oh sure, they'll deny it when you ask them, but that's just to save face and keep you from finding out that the only reason he stomachs the inane conversations with you is because in his brain he's picturing you doing a strip tease, not blabbing endlessly about your ridiculous global warming theory. In other words, men only pretend to be friends with women who they find attractive because that woman represents a sexual object to him. She doesn't represent anything even close to a friend, because men and women are too different to be friends. Men don't want to be friends with women because women are no fun. Their buddy 'Roberto', now he's fun. But women? No way.
You see, men are much more analytical and logical than the admittedly more emotional women. Women see things in a whole spectrum of ways, whereas men see it one of two: yes or no. Things either are or they aren't. So, when we combine the fact that women represent nothing more than sexual conquest to men with their ability to see things either as being or not being, and we can clearly see that the reason men and women can't remain friends after a breakup is: since the chance for sexual contact no longer exists, there's no more reason to have any contact with the woman. He certainly doesn't enjoy her companionship, don't make me laugh. No, he really only talks to her in order to pave the way into the bedroom. Remove that possibility, and you remove his motivation for talking to her at all.
This brings up an interesting side note about jealousy. Women are constantly getting upset about why their boyfriend gets jealous when she talks to another guy. "He's just a friend, what's the big deal" they'll often ask, genuinely puzzled. Well, here's why: since men know that the only reason men talk to women is because they're flirting with them, they know that this "friend" is nothing of the sort but is actually some jerk who's trying to horn in on his territory. Even if she isn't flirting with her "friend," he most certainly is flirting with her. Unfortunately, when asked why he gets so jealous, the man can't explain the truth (that the only reason any man talks to any woman is because he wants to get in her pants), so he has to simply say "I don't know," or something equally stupid.
So there we have it. Don't even think to tell me I'm wrong, because I'm not (I could be haha..). Ever notice how no guy has a fat, ugly female "friend?" Ever notice that really hot chicks have tons of guy "friends?" Ever notice how guys are so much more "friendly" to good looking women (even total strangers) than they are to unnatractive women? Ever wonder why that is? It's because men only pretend to become friends with women because they want to have sex with them. I suppose I can see why women so furiously deny this (even though, again, it's not something which they can deny), since it makes them look bad; however, the evidence is undeniable.
