Can Men and Women Actually Be Friends?
That might have as much to do with the fact that men’s friendships are dominated, at the best of times, by an out-of-sight-out-of-mind effect.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Like girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to ex... See more
strong theme: Can a man and woman ever really be friends?
Alexandra Sokoloff • Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II: Story Structure for Pantsers and Plotters (Screenwriting Tricks For Authors (and Screenwriters!) Book 2)
When Harry Met Sally postulates one simple notion: ‘Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.’ Act one poses a question – ‘Can men and women just be friends?’; act two explores it through antithesis – men and women try being friends – and act three comes to a conclusion through synthesis – men and women can’t be fr
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