Not to brag, but I have no trouble making friends with single men. Once a man is married, however — and ostensibly no longer trying to sleep with me, sorry! — he often goes cold. It's this trajectory that has led me to believe that men in serious relationships with other women are not interested in getting to know me.
Usually this is annoying but ultimately harmless. It's not like I'm dying to talk to them about golf averages or why they prefer bourbon Manhattans to whiskey. (Yes, all married men in my head are side characters in an episode of "Mad Men.") But now, in the throes of a conservative backslide among a deeply gender-divided populace, it seems the question we thought we'd answered decades ago with a resounding "duh" — can men and women really be friends? — is suddenly back up for debate, like the separation of church and state or the need for a polio vaccine. |
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