# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/21 "2011-10-16T22:23:02Z")
Straight male. Most of my friends are female. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/22 "2011-10-16T22:37:56Z")
You screwed up. You don’t have a ‘I don’t have any friends’ choice. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/23 "2011-10-16T22:39:46Z")
I have only one friend and he is my ex. I’m gay and I think he is to. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/24 "2011-10-16T22:50:06Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > You screwed up. You don’t have a ‘I don’t have any friends’ choice. > [@](#): > > I am a rock and an island. A rock feels no pain, and an island never cries. I’m pretty sure this means no friends. It was my choice. I have many aquaintances. My husband is my soul-mate, so I guess he qualifies as a friend, but in general, I don’t really care to make new friends, and my old ones have died or moved away. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/25 "2011-10-16T23:52:32Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > I’m pretty sure this means no friends. Yeah, but in the ‘antisocial hermit’ sense (that’s my reading, at least). I don’t have any friends, but that’s not by choice. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/26 "2011-10-17T00:24:03Z")
Straight male. Most of my close friends are women, to the point that I’ll probably have trouble filling out the ranks of groomsmen when I do eventually tie the knot. My girlfriend is quite tolerant; were she not, I think it’d be a source of friction. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/27 "2011-10-17T05:37:17Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You know something? I changed my mind about making the poll public. My reasons are my own. We’ll still assume it’s because you’re a dick. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/28 "2011-10-17T06:26:26Z")
Straight woman. I have a handful of **close and good friends** of which 3 are men and 2 are women. I know a lot of people - through my work and different circles in my community. Among them the % of both genders is probably equally divided. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/29 "2011-10-17T09:55:37Z")
Gay man - roughly 50/50 between the sexes but the majority of my close friends are female. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/30 "2011-10-17T10:06:23Z")
Most of my friends throughout my life have been female, but I’m starting to learn that the better friends are male. At least, no guy has decided we’re not friends because we haven’t talked to each other for a while. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/31 "2011-10-17T21:22:15Z")
I’m a gay man, and most of my friends are male. But most of the relatives I’m close with are female. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/32 "2011-10-17T23:18:23Z")
Bi female, and most of my friends are women. A disproportionate number are lesbian. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/33 "2011-10-18T02:50:53Z")
Straight male, and my friends are 70/30 female/male. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/34 "2011-10-19T17:57:01Z")
Straight female: most of my friends are men. And most of _them_ are gay. I have several female friends (no lesbians at the moment), but I tend to get along better with guys. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/35 "2011-10-19T18:07:02Z")
Straight male. Vast majority of my friends are female. I’ve always gotten along better with women. I do have a couple of close male friends, but that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/36 "2011-10-19T18:29:33Z")
Straight male. I have more male friends, but when it comes to really close friends, it’s about 50-50. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/37 "2011-10-19T18:36:13Z")
Female. I have more male friends. I don’t know why. I certainly have female friends, too, but I think that, in most cases, I have more in common with guys. ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/38 "2011-10-19T18:46:30Z")
Straight Guy - Mostly Female friends - but I was brough up with 3 sisters and have 3 daughters - feel comfy in female company ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/39 "2011-10-20T12:28:00Z")
straight female and pretty much 50/50 on men and women, and most of them are married couples. because i’m active in community theater, tho, that 50/50 can be skewed a little by adding in gay men who are theater friends. now that i think of it, i don’t personally know any lesbians in my theater circle at the moment, but a very good non-theater friend who was lesbian, died of cancer earlier this year. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641/40 "2011-10-20T13:11:58Z")
Straight female. I always got along better with men than woman. We moved all the time growing up. I don’t think I ever learned how to meet and keep friends. I’m also new (ish) to this community, so aside from my husband. I am currently friendless. Not sure how to vote. The last one doesn’t quite fit. I’m no rock and I have cried many times from a feeling of being alone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-the-majority-of-your-friends/599641.md?page=1)