In my experience, if men don't want to date you or do you, then you might as well not exist. No guy I have ever known has ever pressed for a friendship. If he says he just wants to be friends, that's just his attempt at saying, "Not interested, get lost."

Edit: Actually, there have been a couple guys in my past that pretend to want to be friends for a little while after I rejected them once. They will play the part of the cool, nice guy for a while. Then they have tried to get with me again and after rejecting them for a second time, they go completely psychotic/hater/stalker mode and call me every name in the book and then they never want to see or talk to me again.