Male/female friends

[ajj]

Hey guys, I was wondering what your perspectives are on my situation. I'm a 22 year old guy, but I much prefer female company to male (on a platonic level).

Most weekends when I go out, I go with female friends and only occasionally with other guys. The thing is, I'm not your stereotypical guy who hangs out with mostly girls. I'm 100% heterosexual, have had lots of girlfriends and I don't hang out with girls to pretend to be their "friend" so I can try to turn them into relationships or whatever. I come from a working class background where "a man's a man", play sports, drink beer, listen to rock & rap and can actually be quite macho at times, and I don't have any stereotypical camp attributes whatsoever except maybe that I like fashion. But despite this, most of my good friends (and my 2 very best friends) are girls. I just like hanging out with them better.

Don't get me wrong, I have good male friends, especially in my sports teams. But I often find that when I go out with them at night, I get bored. We all stand around drinking beers, saying that "after this beer, we'll go and pick up some girls" and then nobody ever does, then the conversation dies etc and we go home. But when I go out with my girl friends, I always have a great time. We go round bars and have a good laugh and then go to a club where we dance all night. I have been asked if I'm gay loads of time because I walk into clubs with 4 or 5 good-looking girl friends, but I don't really care. People say girls are much bitchier etc and that can be true, but I get pissed off when guys start getting macho and try to compete with each other and look the best etc. I just can't be bothered with it. I also like the way girls talk about stuff, I find talking about relationships and gossip really fun, but I get bored when my guy friends start talking about soccer statistics or their jobs.

Are any of you guys like me? Or do any of you girls know anyone like me? It's not that I care about my situation, just interested really, because I've recently realised that I don't know any other straight guys who are the same. Is it normal to prefer the company of the opposite sex to your own to such an extent?? Or am I a bit weird LOL??

[sera300]

I have my girlfriends but my best friends are my male ones (some gay and some not). I have a better time with them, they don't turn everything into a competition, and I LOVE their logic. The issue comes up when they are in a serious relationship and well, then it's difficult!

My closest male friend, nothing we will not do for the other. Problem is he met this woman, dated for years now (she met me, is polite, yet will not let him meet me out for lunch). He's recently engaged to her, so she has been keeping him busy, it's not like she's gonna ask me over to their new home! She swears we have slept together, she is so insecure!

[HereIgogogo_Gone]

I am in the same boat as you. Im your typical guy in every aspect, sports, drinking... the whole nine yards. But drinking and doing stuff with the guys around my age, sad to say... dull. They don't know how to have fun, nor know how to talk about anything but themselves and other stuff which frankly are kinda stupid.

Its like, everytime I go to the clubs and bars with the ladies, they more or less see me as just another girl to them... which is... kinda... meh, whatever. Thusly I get hit on by gay guys at these places because I am with the girls.

[tmps]

i like hanging out with guys more then girls, not to sure why but i enjoy their company a lot more. it happens i dont think there is anything wrong with that.

[EvilEvilKitten]

My friends are a 50/50 mix of women and men.
No, you're not all that unusual - most people hang with friends of the other gender because of that rivalry thing sera referred to earlier.

[girl12]

Most of my friends are males, I agree with EEK and Sera.

[foxdan]

Most of my friends are female nothing wrong with that I just enjoy there company more