'society continues to devalue cross-sex friendships and to emphasize same-sex friendship, heterosexual love, and sexual relationships.'

- Werking, (1997)

oh yeah, agreed.

'often, cross-sex friendships happen by default, such as when a romantic relationship fails or sexual attraction in unreciprocated'

-Rose, (1995)

with all due respect, these are [probably and possibly] very experienced, respected [and probably very old] researchers/professors/theorists- and based on what my background is and what i've been trained in and how i've been trained to think, critically for goodness sake, i have no reason to doubt/fault this-

but i just cannot help but think of examples falsifying the case.

i, for example, [forgive my backdated-narrow-minded-conservative viewpoint]

just cannot see how it is possible to maintain a 'cross-sexual friendship' with someone after a relationship dissolutes or when the feelings of attraction beyond friendship are not mutual.

just tell me,

what is a 'cross-sexual friendship'?

the day my guy friend [probably gay] helps me buy sanitary pads and makes herbal tea for me when i have menstrual cramps, uhuh, perhaps i'll take a second to ponder that.

[this, by the way, happened in 'personal taste', a korean drama. and guess what, the girl thought the guy was gay, but he's not, and they're probably gonna be together, HA! so much for cross-sexual friendship. okay, i know it's a drama, but SO WHAT! read more here, haha :)]

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this,

i like.

after i start working i predict i will own 345678987654345678 pairs of jeffrey campbells.

i am so gonna die.

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heard this from somewhere:

A: i believe the word 'studying' was derived from students dying.

B: ...

what about 'studied'?