Have you had some bad experiences with men in the past? Your Father? Other male figures in your life?

I typically tend to get on better with guys than with girls.

These are going to be generalisations / stereotypes - but I think they are fairly positive ones :-) Of course there are exceptions but these are just general tendancies I've noticed:

Things I like about guys:

- They tend to be fairly 'straight-up'. If they have a problem / concern then they will tell you to your face. You can hash it out. Then they MOVE ON. (This is compared to females who, in my experience, tend to talk about things behind your back while being all lovely to your face. They also are - in my experience - more likely to hold onto resentments / hurts and take much longer to move on).
- They are more into doing doing doing. Which is nice for me to get out of my head. Girls tend to gossip gossip gossip on the other hand ;-)
- They are less concerned with such things as how much you weigh and precisely what you are wearing than girls are. Guys often don't see what all that fuss is about... Girls (in my experience) tend to be more into making comparisons and feeling inferrior etc etc.

I try and learn from the guys in all these things because I'd like to be more like that.

I think that yeah, such traits as those (which are typically more masculine rather than feminine traits) make it very worthwhile indeed to have guys as friends :-)

But of course we are still talking in stereotypes....

Hard not to talk in stereotypes given the 'male' and 'female' boards.

Personally... I think it is a shame really... But making the most of an unfortunate situation...