# What gender are the majority of your friends? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641 "2011-10-14T16:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/1 "2011-10-14T16:28:42Z")
Poll in a second. It’ll be public because I am a dick. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/2 "2011-10-14T16:36:46Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Poll in a second. It’ll be public because I am a dick. You know something? I changed my mind about making the poll public. My reasons are my own. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/3 "2011-10-14T16:37:35Z")
About 80% women, mainly because I’m a lesbian so even my friends’ partners are women. Then there’s a bunch of gay men and straight women. Straight men, not many at all, which is more by accident than design I promise. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/4 "2011-10-14T16:50:41Z")
Straight woman, and about fifty-fifty, but it may actually be about sixty/forty, male/female. Slightly more male friends. I get along well with guys. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/5 "2011-10-14T16:52:02Z")
Gay woman, and my friends are about 50-50 male-female. Well, for friends I actually regularly see and hang out with - my Facebook friends list has more women. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/6 "2011-10-14T16:53:08Z")
I’m a woman and consider myself bi even though I am effectively straight (having only been with men). And the vast majority of my close friends are and have been female, of all sexual orientations, with a couple gay guys sprinkled in. However in terms of more friendly-acquaintance or mutual-friend-type relationships (where I get along great with a person, often the SO of one of my friends or a co-worker, in a group situation, but never or very rarely have one-on-one contact with them), it’s about 50/50. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/7 "2011-10-14T16:55:57Z")
I voted “Straight, 50-50” although I’m not completely straight. More like a Kinsey 1.5. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/8 "2011-10-14T17:23:10Z")
Out of my handful of close friends, all are male except my very best friend. (straight) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/9 "2011-10-14T17:32:19Z")
Straight woman, and most of my friends are men. About 50/50 straight/gay. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/10 "2011-10-14T17:34:17Z")
Most of my friends are men, but most of my friends are drawn from the ranks of physicists (an unfortunately rather male-dominated field), and my proportion of female friends seems to be higher than the proportion of female physicists. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/11 "2011-10-14T17:35:08Z")
I’m a bisexual man. Most of my friends are cisgendered (queer) women. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/12 "2011-10-14T18:38:47Z")
Straight male 50-50, if for no other reason than I tend to be friends with both members of a couple. ---
**Author:** ![Soliloquy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Soliloquy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soliloquy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/13 "2011-10-14T18:42:43Z")
Straight female. Most of my friends are male. I work in a male dominated field, and have always gotten along with men better than women. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/14 "2011-10-14T18:43:51Z")
I’m a straight female and it used to be that the majority of my friends were men. But I’ve grown up a bit and made some new friends and actually go “out with the girls” (albeit I take them to baseball games) and stuff like that. I still have a lot of dude friends but the fact that mostly they are married and have wives that I like as friends evens the ratio out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/15 "2011-10-14T18:46:47Z")
Straight woman, 50/50. Currently I have more female friends, but that is due to working in a heavily female dominated field and other circumstances, as recently as five years ago the ratio was the other way around, more men again due to workplace dynamics and, less so, at the time my SO had a lot of male friends many of them I considered friends as well. My current SO has a pretty balanced ratio himself which balances me too. I guess if we’re narrowing it down to long term, true-blue bleed for each other friends, it’s a lot more heavily female. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/16 "2011-10-14T19:03:19Z")
I don’t have any local friends at present. But for most of my life, most of my friends have been male, or non-feminine females. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/17 "2011-10-14T19:55:17Z")
Straight female here, I chat with more guys on a day to day basis since I work in a male-dominated field. I just thought about this the other day, as I was clearing out some old contacts in my phone. Something like 85% of my contacts are male, not counting relatives, but when I make a call to chat with a friend it’s invariably a girl friend. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/18 "2011-10-14T21:34:42Z")
Straight man. I have several female friends. But there’s a few more male friends, and my closest friends are male. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/19 "2011-10-16T21:19:36Z")
Straight male…vast majority of good friends are female. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/20 "2011-10-16T21:27:53Z")
My friend demographic has shifted as I’ve aged. Straight female, also have worked in a male-dominated profession most of my life. When I was younger, had 50% or more male friends; I like men and get along with them very well. Now in my 50s, I guess most of my friends are women, although I have three men who are good enough friends I could call them in the middle of the night if I was broke down on the freeway (although one of them is the husband of one of my closest female friends.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641.md?page=2)