Being a Girl Friend

Meeting someone from the opposite sex always results in a form of classification. The brain goes through a quiet process of evaluating our interest and their potential before the person takes residency in categories:
a) Love at fist sight
b) Pure lust (don't talk to me, don't tell me your name, don't ask, don't tell, don't say...just lose the clothes)
c) Potential love interest (if all goes well)
d) Potential significant other (that realization normally comes well after)
e) Potential object of fantasy (hum… though it may not be apparent at the time)
f) Nice guy but not my type (fell for this one a couple of times, ha!)
g) No Go Zone, (wonderful person but has a partner)
h) Go-Go Zone (has a partner you hate and you need a lil' drama in your life)
i) Just friends (I like you but let’s keep it platonic.)*
j) Never in a million years (never in a million years, even if all the men on earth disappear and remains only you and a butchy and german lesbian catcher)


* When say that you have to sorta like the person to be friends, I am not saying that friendship between men and women is not possible. It is. But then again, I don't think i could be really good friends with a guy I find disgusting. Same goes for men. Physical attraction of some sort also occurs in friendship. (I know, some of you will ask me to remember the When Harry meets Sally issue , but i'll discuss it in my next post...calm down!)


Anyway, once le man has been classified, he can either remain in the same category or he can progress and become reclassified in our minds. It can go from c) to ) , from h) to e) etc.
Because, women are not sex-starved zombies, chances are a friendship would develop and we subsequently become a "girl friend". As a girl friend, I have men confide in me their relationship troubles, discuss their girlfriends/love interests, ask for advice or an opinion or just share aspects (and yeah, you can skip it the gross bit next time, boys!) of their relationships. It's great because you get to learn so much about men, that you can beat the next one that comes along at his own game. Yet, talking to women about their boy friends, i couldn't help but notice that even when you don't have the slightest interest in your boy friends, hearing him talk about another woman's attributes awakens the green-eyed monster.
I got lucky in the genes lottery I think. I don't feel envy, I never have, I don't know, it's not in my DNA. Recently, I got closer to a new boy friend. And although I do not have any problems with boy/girl buddying, le nouveau friend got into real drama...with a girl friend! (still following?)


Hearing the story, most of the drama comes from single-handed bitchealousy and a vivid imagination but it got me into thinking. Why can't we women, be totally-totally friends with men? I'm thinking about my boy friends and I have to admit that I have myself felt the tiny twangs of jealousy when they talked. Even with the "never in the million years" one talks. I am a rational creature by habit and it is highly illogical to get jealous when I have little or no interest in a man. Yet hearing about her tall silouhette/blue eyes/perky boobies/laughter/athletic build/lovable personality sometimes incites a trait of which I am not proud. I may even share some of the attributes of which he speaks, but a little competitive comparison takes place on a subconscious level. I'm not envious, I'm competitive. Of course, as the nice girl friend who holds his best interest at heart, I flick off those feelings in his presence and most men are not smart enough or attuned to pick up the nuances.

Now I wonder the same thought processes apply to the male gender. Or have jealousy and envy totally skipped the Y chromosome? Are men better equipped to listen to other men’s attributes without comparing themselves? Or are they equally adept at covering up their feelings in front of girl friends?

As women, are we completely immune from a little illogical jealousy?
Do you believe that male friends do not enjoy listening to you speak of other men?
Do men get weird when a girl friend talks about a man who has taken her interest?
Are men better able to have truly impartial thoughts?
Are we, women vile, sneaky, little inviduals, nurtruring jealous feelings of varying magnitudes? (From complete psycho to thinking "yeah, right, talk about her breasts and attitude, you're a life virgin until you've seen mine " when he talks)


Your thoughts on that??

Ps: Boy, sometimes, I'm really happy to be a fag hag!