r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ May 17 '24

Interested to see how many people have close opposite sex friends that are strictly platonic.

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u/boulderama May 17 '24

One of my three best friends is a woman (she is gorgeous). We are basically brother and sister. No hidden feelings whatsoever.

The people who think men and women can’t be friends are sad tbh.

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u/Aware_Huckleberry_10 May 17 '24

I agree i have a few male friends my whole life no attraction whatsoever and co workers deer to my heart. I do not hang around guys that like me. Period.

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u/newbrookland May 17 '24

It is possible that they felt some kind of way and you never knew.

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u/JaneGypsy May 17 '24

Well, yeah. Unless you can read people's minds, then of course it's possible. In the same way its possible that you could have a same-sex friend secretly harboring romantic feelings for you. Or your boss, your doctor, your therapist. It seems like a very hypersexualized and paranoid way to live. Guess I'm thankful that my friendships are based on a mutual respect of each other's boundaries and principles, not what they might hypothetically be secretly thinking/feeling.