Boys, can you really treat a female friend as "one of the guys"?

So I'm wondering... this guy is friendly and affectionate with his close male friends - hugs, touches, all that, quite sweet. We've only been friends quite recently but he treats me the same way pretty much. (he's quite shy generally btw, not like this with everyone)

What I'm getting at is - can you really treat your female friends in the exact same way as your male buddies or does it mean something else? Am I "one of the guys" already or should I take the affection to mean something?

edit: not trying to be one of the lads, if anything I don't want to be.. I like him

He's testing how deep/shallow the water is aka if you have a backbone,if you will crack.If your a pushover. Guys like playing awkward mind games to see if your compatible. If you are then he will go deep inside and leave the nuts hanging out.

He's testing how deep/shallow the water is aka if you have a backbone,if you will crack.If your a pushover. Guys like playing awkward mind games to see if your compatible. If you are then he will go deep inside and leave the nuts hanging out.

All you'll see is two nuts outside them shuga walls

Bustin all kinds of nuts on her face

No. And I really dislike girls that try to be "one of the lads".

No. And I really dislike girls that try to be "one of the lads".

Why?!

To the original question - I have some really close guy friends, and I'd say that apart from being protective of me (in a nice way) they treat me the same as the "lads".

Because a) I don't even like boys who think they are a "lad" and b) girls are girls, why should they act like a guy?

My best friends are guys and I don't act any differently around them as I do around girls? So I'm not acting "like a guy"? You appear to be perpetuating male and female stereotypes - that people have to act a certain way in order to fit the gender they identify with.