No hate to @Dino | Selfwork women can make good friends too

What are your thoughts on female friends? What if I said to you there is nothing a woman can provide in a friendship if a man has competent male friends? First of all, I like, you know, he usually has a lot of good takes, but this is a mis-run. And this idea that a competent man is equivalent to a competent woman is just not true. Societyally speaking, men and women have been given a whole different set of rubrics when it comes to socializing, when it comes to their self-development. So it's very, very interesting and often useful to get a glimpse of what life is to the opposite sex. And I feel like, as a man, if you only surround yourself with other men, or you get a perspective of men. And again, if you only surround yourself with people that have a similar viewpoint to you, you're missing a large part of their lived experience and reality. And this causes you to have a very small world view. For my personal experience, having female friends has been very interesting for me and very transformative. I've been able to understand life from a whole different perspective. If you don't speak to women, you naturally know where it's like to be a woman in this world. It can cause you to walk through this world with a level of ignorance that is dangerous. So I'm sorry, even a competent man, his life experience is limited to that of a male. And this mention of having to pay for the expenses of your female friend, this doesn't have to be the case. There are a lot of women who are sustainable by themselves, who are competent by themselves, and don't need a male friend to handle their situations for them. But yes, if you are a guy who only wants to have female friends that you're attracted to, yeah, you're going to end up fully falling into those traps where you basically give them gulf in treatment or whatever. But if you're both people who aren't interested in each other sexually or romantically, there's a lot to be gainful when it comes to friendship. Again, I think this whole rhetoric is just kind of riddled in underlining misogyny and patriarchal ideas, which is quite difficult for someone of Dino's background. So I'm not blaming him for that. Because, yeah, if you do see men and women as, like, one of the lifts and, yeah, having a friend or the opposite gender of you feels like a waste of time. Especially if you only see women as someone to even be married to or just a random, insignificant person. But if your world view is where you see every individual as a competent and specific individual, then their world view is just as valuable as mine. And I think men being unable to see women as, you know, potential just friends, like, people would just know is something that prevents men from actually understanding themselves, however, if you're not able to see women as anything other than a potential romantic partner, it really does change your ability to empathize with women, to actually understand them, and to also understand half of the population, which is women. And limiting yourself to only interacting with half the population does absolutely limit your world view. Again, I hate that you know it is just my perspective.