Why don't guys call their male friends "boyfriends" ...

[StormRider]

... but girls call their female friends "girlfriends"?

 

[GhettoFob]

wassup boyfriend?

 

[amnesiac]

because they don't want to sound gay. duh.

 

[PaNsyBoy8]

one word...homophobia

 

[ChrichtonsGirl]

Because a lot of guys aren't as secure in their heterosexuality as most of us women?

 

[Zenmervolt]

<<Why don't guys call their male friends "boyfriends">>

Maybe for the same reason that we don't call girls with whome we are just friends "girlfriends"? It's probably just one of those cultural norms that slowly grew up and now we don't really know why.

Zenmervolt

EDIT: The "we" above being a collective term for all males.

 

[jjones]

are you gay?

 

[Dually]

Thats obvious, why do girls call their friends of the female sex girlfriends?

Whole point of the words boyfriend or girlfriend is in reference to someone you are dating depending of whether you are a guy, girl.

 

[aphex]

sounds strikingly homosexual to me....

 

[Optimus]

<< Why don't guys call their male friends "boyfriends" ...
>>



Well, feel free to start yourself.

 

[azazyel]

I don't think it has to do w/ homophobic reasons it just has never been done.

Anyways these sound better.

My mates
My boyz
My posse
My friends (not that I don't have any girls that I am friends with but usually when I guy says I am hangin w/ my friends people naturally assume they are male. If they are actually girls then people usually expect a qualifier.)

 

[StageLeft]

I have some boyfriends.

 

[mdennison]

It all started when a married woman was going out to meet her boyfriend(affair). All dressed up and smelling good, she was walking out the door and her husband said "going to the grocery store honey?" she replied "going out with my boy..er..uhh...girlfriend" and they all lived happily ever after.

 

[glen]

Which Backstreet Boy is gay?

 

[Bluga]

that's gay

 

[Modeps]

"look it's gay, very very gay." - Deuce Bigalow

 

[Kojak]

<< It all started when a married woman was going out to meet her boyfriend(affair). All dressed up and smelling good, she was walking out the door and her husband said "going to the grocery store honey?" she replied "going out with my boy..er..uhh...girlfriend" and they all lived happily ever after. >>




Ahhahahaha, mdennison. Hey, wait a minute. That is what my wife tells me every Thursday night.

 

[mdennison]

I know

 

[tcsenter]

Same reason we don't call a penis a 'vagina' or pecs 'boobs'. We are not the same as women, haven't you noticed?

 

[LethalWolfe]

I refer to them as guy friends, or male friends. We know girls call their female friends their "girlfriends," but have you ever heard them refer to their male friends as "boyfriends?"

Lethal

 

[Nitemare]

<< Which Backstreet Boy is gay? >>



Which backdoor boy is gay???

All of them? Lots of love going on there...

Why is it ok to say to your boy...Wassup b!tch? yet say that to a woman and you better have nad protection..

 

[JERR]

It is an evil plot by men to encourage [one man:many women] sexual encounters.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

<< because they don't want to sound gay. duh. >>


.... need we say anymore? HOMOPHOBIA, makes the world go 'round!

 

[ed1564]

This is the gayest question I have ever heard.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Why don't girls call their female friends "my posse?"