Men Are More Attracted to Female Friends Than Women Are to Guy Friends: Have You Ever Been Attracted to a Friend?
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2012/05/07 19:36:27
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It's the age-old question: Can a man and a woman just be friends? A new study suggests that they can't -- at least as far as the guy is concerned. Men are more sexually interested in their female friends than their female friends are in them, LiveScience reports.


Not only are guys more likely to pine for their platonic female pals, but they're also more likely than gals to think their friends are romantically interested in them, too, even if they aren't. "Men over-infer women's sexual interest in a variety of contexts, and I definitely see that extending into the domain of cross-sex friendships as well," study researcher April Bleske-Rechek, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, told LiveScience.
However, being attracted to your BFF isn't always such pleasant experience (as many of us have learned the hard way). Study participants were much more likely to list attraction as a "cost" rather than a benefit of their opposite-sex friendship (though men were less likely to see it this way than women).
What do you think? Is being attracted to your friend a recipe for disaster? Or could it possibly lead to love?
However, being attracted to your BFF isn't always such pleasant experience (as many of us have learned the hard way). Study participants were much more likely to list attraction as a "cost" rather than a benefit of their opposite-sex friendship (though men were less likely to see it this way than women).
What do you think? Is being attracted to your friend a recipe for disaster? Or could it possibly lead to love?
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Yankee Traveler 2012/05/07 20:55:23Yes






















This is genocide by the UN definition. And that picture is just one of the propaganda techniques they use.
I tell you what. Open up a JC Penny flyer you get in the mail one time. Go to the children's section. Look at the photographs. Notice how they almost always pair the little girls up with black boys, while the white boys are either by themselves or with another boy.
They do this because girls, and females in general, are very susceptible to this kind of propaganda. And if our women stop producing white children, then we are finished.
it's also a fact i believe that media in america and the UK do not generally cover anti-white offenses or assaults against white people in favour of covering those against blacks or muslims. in the post-industrial age we've really let these notions of egalitarianism and integration and democracy get away from us and are taking them to dangerous extremes. we're surrounded by propoganda, whether we believe it or not, and whether or not the propgandisers are conscious of it or not (they usually are not). it's almost like being a communist during the 50s in america.
No, there is a species. Humans are a species. Races are subspecies.
I bet you're one of those people who claim to believe in science. Well, science has found that blacks and whites don't even have the same ancestry. Whites have neanderthal DNA, blacks don't.
And there are other, many other, differences as well.
But you prefer the idea of the whole "one race" stupidity, because I suspect you're female. And females tend to be motivated by whatever gives the most mating opportunites with as many alpha males as possible. And excluding blacks will necessarily limit that.
Oh, you're probably too lazy. Here, look at this:
http://www.newscientist.com/a...
Here's another. It appears that interbreeding with neanderthals gave humans genes involved in brain development, which could explain why the brains of black Africans are different from the rest of us. Lower IQ and all.
http://www.newscientist.com/a...
Given that there is an odds-defying number of pairings of white girls and black boys, I would hesitate to call that just a random effort to be "more inclusive."
It's about getting into girls' minds and changing their mating preferences starting at a young age.
Statistically there should be a 50%.
These are the possibilities, and how they actually worked out: w - white b - black b - boy g - girl
wb / wg - this one was the rarest, coming in at 4%
wb / bg - this was the third most common
bb / wg - black boy white girl pairs are the most common, at about 45%
bb / bg - second most rare pairing.
So, statistically you'd expect to find about 25% of each.
Maybe you can use that library of yours and research the etymology of the word "slave." And no, it doesn't mean "poor wittle black person who would be a prince."
edit: I'm referring to him, not you. ;)
What if the whole world could somehow all be mated up tomorrow, and this done for hundreds of years. In time, everyone would look, think like, be like everyone else.
I understand it makes it easier to have a one-world government when everyone is exactly alike, and easier to sell them garbage when their tastes are all the same. But you know, I'm a little attached to the idea that there is some uniqueness in the world.
Also, the fact that you're bringing up a one-world government out of the blue tells me you're probably a crazy conspiracy theorist.
And there is more to it than mere looks. There are personality traits that go along with those looks. The looks are just a useful proxy for a whole host of evolutionary adaptations.
And my one government comment doesn't mean I believe there is one. It's just that when everyone is the same, it makes consolidation of power a lot easier.
Maybe I'm just playing it safe, but I'd rather be a good friend than chance ending up an unfavorable ex eventually. Besides, I have no clue if that sort of thing is even on his mind.
As someone who's bisexual, it's not really possible to avoid it by sticking to a gender. But I've never had such serious feelings for a random friend, usually my feelings stick to friendship but I still might find them attractive.
Actually I'm still friends with someone that I've on and off been curious for the past year now, but when we talked about it, it turns out she had the same curiosity about me. So we just left it at that.