The Brawler wants to say upfront that the best comment section in a JS blog this week -- perhaps ever -- revolves around the Great Erica Perez Dive Bar Debacle. But illusory Tenant, is all over that one.
So as a runner up, the Brawler puts forth a piece of insight offered in response to a Vikki Ortiz post. She asks her readers the allegedly interesting question of whether it's possible to have friends of the opposite sex once you're involved in a serious relationship.
She just doesn't know!
There's barely enough bandwidth in the intertubes to contain the mad science dropped by one "John" -- is that his middle name?
Take it away, "John":
The short answer is no. I suppose you want me to elaborate. Fine. Most of the time a guy and girl are platonic friends, one of them likes the other and one of them doesn't. The other reasons for these types of friends is that you are a female and friend's with your friend's boyfriend because he has become part of her life. So as log as they date, he can be your friend, ....but it is really your friend through someone else. So...back to heterosexual male and female friends...on their own for their own sake...usually one likes the other(no matter what they say) ...and when one of the two friend's gets married...your friendship will fade deep into the background....often only interacting in front of the spouse. That's just how it works. And you find new friends, which I am sure is a pain at first. The only exception to this is if you had a boyfriend and could hang out the 4 of you for quite some time, to keep a friendship going....but unless you can become very close to your friend's girlfriend...against most odds...you will be taking a backseat and moving on...at least until they break up or divorce...a 1 in 2 chance on that one.
Edifying!
Just reading that makes me want to beat my head into something hard, just to knock it out of my memory. Egads.
It's even more stupefying that Ortiz is getting paid for that drivel.
Posted by: capper | August 24, 2007 at 09:18 PM