https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hmlPtRu1SQ

This Family Guy clip shows a key difference in friendships. Women speak covertly to each other, and men overtly. Men are also upfront with one another about both compliments and problems. If two guys have a problem, they'll just say it directly to each other. By contrast, female friends will constantly make passive aggressive comments to each other in order to gain an opportunity to appear to have higher SMV in front of prospective suitors.