Enough with all the conspiracies and violence of 9/11. Let’s talk about boys and girls and why they can or can not be friends.
Why men and women can’t be friends.
Millions of years of evolution say they can’t. There’s still some sort of hunter in every man and a collector in every woman, that and the need to survive which means procreating. I can’t imagine that both sexes were friends with eachother when they were still living in caves and hunting mammoths.
Why they can be friends.
Well, let’s believe that we’ve grown as human beings thanks to evolution. We can see and feel past the urge to survive and procreate. I’m not saying that sex isn’t a huge part of anyone’s life, but we’ve learned to adapt to sexless periods. And well, guess what, we didn’t extinct. This means that both sexes can interact with eachother, without jumping eachothers bones. Thus men and women can be friends. But it’s not always easy.
Whatever it is, it probably depends on which boy and which girl decide to be friends. I still believe it’s possible, but the question whether or not sex is a (huge) deal between them is the dealbreaker. Or as a guy on the show Cougar Town said:
“Men and women can't be friends without a sexual undercurrent. Look, we find each other attractive. We're flirty. That's our dynamic. But we would never act on it, because we both know it would end in disaster, so we became “friends”. “
