When you say 'attention', do you mean fucking friendship? (Smh at this comment.) I think you're referring to the kind of girl who knows a guy likes her and keeps him on the hook because she enjoys the attention, but have painted every single girl who likes her male friends with the same brush when they are very different.

Don't kid yourself. The attention girls get from guys is not the same as a legitimate friendship they have with their girlfriends.

I think you're referring to the kind of girl who knows a guy likes her and keeps him on the hook because she enjoys the attention, but have painted every single girl who likes her male friends with the same brush when they are very different.

Yes. This is often the case when a girl only has male friends. Sometimes the girl may think the friendship is innocent but that's usually very naive thinking.

I know guys who have a lot of female friends and they're very cool people. Similarly, I also know guys who are players and enjoy a lot of female attention. Your problem is you immediately lump these two very vast categories together and once again - very different. I do agree that r/relationships seems biased against close female/male friendships on occasion, but I feel like you're immediately disregarding the idea that someone can have good friends of the opposite sex without there being something going on. A lot of people manage this without much difficulty.

There are always exceptions that people can find in the male-female friendship debate. My point was that a true friendship between different sexes is inherently different because the capacity for sexual interest changes the dynamic completely. I'm still uncertain if a truly 100% platonic intergender friendship is possible, but I have no doubt that some people are better at pulling it off than others.