This post is as much a question as it is an invitation for discussion. I find this to be an area of TRP that is not very clear yet.

I have recently posted about friendships with females, which has been troubling me a lot as I try to work out my stance on various social aspects of my life.

All the responses to my previous post indicated that male-female friendships were based around attraction, not true friendship in terms of loyalty and dependency found in male-male (or female-female (?)) friendships.

I'm not willing to accept an internet claim which would have such a drastic impact on my life view without experiencing enough evidence myself to validate it. This is because the majority of my previous experience has shown me that I can be friends with females simply because we get on with one another and can have non-sexual fun together, similar to how I enjoy myself when hanging with my guy friends. I would not say I orbit any of these women - the act of orbiting seems so obvious and so painful to me that I feel I could never end up in that situation. I do not ask about their relationships or the guys they hook up with, nor do they feel the need to tell me. We talk about school, life, people, current affairs, tv etc. Basically the same things I talk to my male friends about.

I would like your advice, asktrp, about how best to go about collecting such evidence. I have a female friend who has had a long term boyfriend, but who has often told me how attractive I am, has been feeling my body when drunk, and to whom I can get away with saying almost anything. I think she is a fun person to hang out with, and I would consider us friends.

I have been considering asking her directly how much her friendship to me is based on her finding me attractive, ideally when she is drunk so more honest. Would this be a terrible idea? My aim is to try to understand better how women like her view our relationship, I am not seeking some validation or ego boost.

Personally, I know that there is a large amount of women-hate on this sub, and that hating females is listed as one of the stages one goes through in swallowing the pill. I have noticed some AWALT traits in the females in my social circles, but it is not enough to convince me that their entire gender has no value to me apart from as a whole to stick my dick into.

I am currently unwilling to rule out 50% of the people on this planet from any meaningful social interaction that is not sexually-orientated. My view at the moment is that maintaining friendships with women makes my life better than not having them.

I would welcome discussion, I think this is a really interesting point in this branch of social strategy.

TLDR; Let's discuss the potential of true male-female friendship