POLL: Do you get along with your own gender?

girls who can't get along with other girls are usually just bitches themselves

How does that make sense? Me hanging out with guys because I get on with them better makes me a bitch how?

I don't prefer either gender for friends. But there are some subjects which I tend to talk about more with guys and vice versa. For example most girls I know are not interested that much in football so I wouldn't talk about that nearly as much as I would with male friends.

I feel as if some girls jump on the "girls are bitches so I prefer hanging out with guys" brigade because they think it makes them special or something.

Absolutely. I can kind of understand this as it's a way to disassociate themselves from negative traits that are associated with women, but it's tainting all other women with those stereotypes. I'm surprised to see someone who calls herself a feminist (or did?) come out with this stuff - it really is doing all women down by claiming we're all (or nearly all) like that stereotype. Women aren't any more bitchy than men - it's just that people notice it in women more. My friendships with men involve just as many dramas as my friendships with women.

Reread my comment, and then ask me a question which makes sense.

Absolutely. I can kind of understand this as it's a way to disassociate themselves from negative traits that are associated with women, but it's tainting all other women with those stereotypes. I'm surprised to see someone who calls herself a feminist (or did?) come out with this stuff - it really is doing all women down by claiming we're all (or nearly all) like that stereotype. Women aren't any more bitchy than men - it's just that people notice it in women more. My friendships with men involve just as many dramas as my friendships with women.

This. My father is the bitchiest person I know.

Really? Interesting

Not really. I'm open to friendships with women, just in my experience, female friendships don't work. I'm not saying all women are like that. And I've yet to have the same problems with men that I have with women

You're probably not as open to female friendships as you think - if you've got this attitude that women are bitchy/more drama/harder to get on with etc. that's going to affect how you form relationships with them. You're expecting problems with women so you get them. I've never had a problem forming friendships with women, and neither have most other women (although a lot of them do still come out with "women are bitchy" stuff, excluding their friends) so I'd have to say the problem is with you.

Girls are in my experience more sensitive and they tend to be more understanding. Guys love to act tough and invincible and "yeah I'm an emotionless, godless, sex-obsessed, football-playing machine".

That said, I'd be slightly more comfortable with guys in other settings and for different reasons. A) I don't develop crushes on males and B) guys are more likely to share the same interests as me.

So my answer is complicated I guess. Girls are better for deeper relationships (not sexual, strictly friendly) than guys (e.g. I won't ever discuss my feelings with other men), guys are better for more superficial, Xbox-friendships.

I'm pretty sure I keep an open mind about it, and I do have some female friends. I've just yet to meet a group of females I like and that like me - how does that make the problem with me?

Usually I leave female groups alone and just hang around with guys but for some reason female groups are actively nasty to me. Even though I try to stay out their way. So I don't see how I'm the problem