I’ve noticed that you can effortlessly make friends with men because you always have the easiest icebreakers in the world at your disposal. Do you like Star Wars? No? The gym? No? Sports? No? Mutual video games? No? Alright, you’re probably not someone I have any interest in talking to anyways. But 99 times out of 100 you can have a 20 minute conversation with a complete stranger about one of those topics and feel like you’ve made a lifelong friend. But with women, you have to dig deeper as they’re not typically interested in those topics except the gym, and even then they’re not usually as invested as men. The only decent icebreaker that works for me with women is talking about mutual TV shows or movies but that’s about it.

Obviously there’s a difference as I’m only socializing with guys so we can be bros while with women I’m trying to establish a romantic connection, but shouldn’t I do that by starting off with a friendly conversation as I would with any other person? Beyond the obvious small talk stuff like “hey how are you” “got any plans” “got any pets” etc I tend to stall out after that. Any tips, advice, or comments to add? Mostly thought this was an interesting conversation at least.