Josh, Emma, Tyson and Kellan are good friends. Do you think teenage guys and girls can truly be just friends? What are the good and bad things about having a friend of the opposite gender?
In this discussion I would like you to post your own opinion and also read and comment on another student's opinion.
In "my" opinion..um.. teenae guys and girls can be the best friends but maybe not forever because if they are forced to seperate, they might be not able to be best friends anymore. The good things about having a friend of opposite gender is that they might be the only one who is opposite gender best friends, but the bad things about that is like um....they might not be that close to each other as same gender best friends..maybe :P I'm not sure```
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DeleteActually i think being seperated goes for both gender maybe? but i agree with the bad things. with the same gender best friends, i think we can be more personal and able to talk about more private things!-SUNHEE-
I agree with you Min Ju and... Sun Hee :)
DeleteYes teenage guys and girls can be best friends. The good things about having a boy best friend is that we can know more facts about the boys and the bad thing is that we could turn into "tomboy" because of being friends with the boy for so long. Also some boys doesn't really like gossip, shopping so it is hard to be friends with a guy.If you like each other, it could ruin your friendship :)
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DeleteI think your arguments are correct! I agree with you. Although being a tomboy is not necessarily a bad thing.
DeleteThat's what I was thinking, Indi. Who says a girl who acts like a boy is a Tomboy anyway? Isn't she still just a girl? Society sets rules for the way girls and boys are supposed to act - but who is to say these are correct?
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DeleteI kind of agree with Najiha :)
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ReplyDeleteI think opposite gender can be truly a just friend if they are both not too attractive, because they won't get any deeper relationship if they really don't meant to like each other. Good thing of having opposite gender for a friend is we can communicate boy's thinking and girl's thinking both. Bad thing about it is boys get too active in puberty and they might cause something weird between them. Whatever -Tom Kim
ReplyDeletei like the fact of bad things about having a friend of the opposite gender.
DeleteOnly boys get weird during puberty? Is it really about puberty? Can't it happen any time - that there is a friendship between a guy and girl - and then one of the two begins to feel differently, more strongly than the other. This can ruin the friendship. But then this is not necessarily a reason NOT to have friends of the opposite gender.
DeleteIn my opinion... teen boys and girls can be friends but sometimes it can get out of hand. Things can go the wrong way for the oppisite genders.
ReplyDeletewhere's good things and bad things?
DeleteYou mean they can start liking each other right? Yup it can get out of hand! Then the girl and guy just have to decide whether they both want it to be more than friendship. Problem is usually one does and the other doesn't.
Deletei agree with you Ms.Jill! most of the times, one likes other but the other one thinks they are only friends. and that often causes their friendship to turn out akward or even end. -SUNHEE-
DeleteI agree with your opinion but what are the good and bad things about having an opposite gender as a friend?
DeleteThe fact of teenage guys and firls truly be just friends is most likely to be impossible. Being there for eachother,knowing their secret they might start to have feeling for eachother.
ReplyDeleteThe good things about having a friend of the opposite gender, they can learn more about gender and always have a friend who they can count on. Not only that the relationship between girls and boys could get better and understand eachother better than before. The bad things about having an opposite gender as a friend is the fact they won't be able to talk openly about how they feel about the other gender. Not only that there would be lots of secret made about what they think about eachother :D
This is true! But you said at the start it is impossible? My opinion on that bit is different.
Deletei actually agree with the good thing! girls are good at some things more than boys and guys can be better at some other things right? so you get benefits having an opposite gender friends getting help with things you're not good at and you can help them with those they are not really good at as well. -SUNHEE-
DeleteI agree with Ji Young also. And it is also true!! :D Although her opinion is kind of different from mine, I agree with it also :)
DeleteI agree! :)
DeleteI think teenage guys and girls can't truly just be friends, because it's a opposite gender, you really need to understand about how the guys think and how the girls think and obviously, guys and girls mostly have different thinking and opinion. The good things about having a guy friend to me is I can talk about boys to a guy and i can understand them and truly, boys talks funny stuff than girls (in my opinion.), but the bad things are that they most of them don't really keep secrets and I don't feel comfortable about saying but personal things to boys because most of them are not that trustable or takable as girls do.
ReplyDeleteThis makes perfect sense and I agree to many of your points, yet I believe being the opposite gender is not really any different in equality. Although stereotypically guys are made out to be the silly jokers and the girls are sensible and gossipy, in my opinion, boys/girls are just as trustworthy, fun and sensible as each other, yet in their own special way :)
DeleteI think this makes perfect sense as well. I agree that we shouldn't stereotype boys in saying they are always joking around and can never talk seriously. Often boys make the best listeners. Girls often judge each other. Girls can offer a guy friend advice too, like stop trying to act so 'cool' or 'tough' and just be honest. But guys, i do, think often tend to enjoy different kinds of jokes - often gross disgusting jokes - but girls can enjoy these too with a guy friend more easily than with a girl friend. SO this is another advantage of opposite gender friendships, we can step out of our role as guy and girl and just be ourselves and have fun.
DeleteYesss i agree with u Ms.Jill :) i really hate when boys often make fun of gross disgusting jokes and laugh like crazy but, i think i should understand them? so i can enjoy these things with guys and be more friendly to each other!
DeleteMy opinion is that it is absolutely alright to have a best friend of the opposite gender! It helps you to understand the differences and similarities of how girls/boys think and act and understand each other more comfortably. Furthermore, it is fun having a best friend of the opposite gender because maybe you can trust them more or have more fun with them if they have a different sense of humour to your other friends. However there is an downside. A lot of the time, after getting to know each other and becoming really close, one person feels a different sort of relationship forming and is keen on being more than just close friends and often the other person does not feel the same way and the friendship gets awkward. In some cases the people who used to be best friends are just friends or even just people who they used to know. But yeah, my opinion is its great having friends other than of your gender :)
ReplyDeletei agree with all of your evidence of your point! but, i actually don't really trust boys aha i like having a best friend with the opposite gender but, sometimes they misunderstand everything and mess everything right? xD ( my opinion ) however, yes! boys are fun to talk and it's fun playing with them because they have the different sense of humour ;)
DeleteYa that's true too Min Joo!!
DeleteI agree with you Indi you can have a friend of the opposite gender. It just depends on what personlaity you have.
Deletei think teenage guys and girl can't be best friends really. i am currently watching a drama that a boy starts to like a girl who is his long childhood best friend! also in the noble future of us, josh starts to like emma who was also his best friend. wait, why is it always the guys to like their best friens? :p anyway i think that's mostly only in fictions and in real life, best friends would remain as best friends if the other one is not reallly attractive. actually if one is attractive, they won't be best friends in the first time maybe? whatsoever,i think the best part about having a guy as a bet friend is that you can share secrets about the same gender as you can't really talk directly with your same gender friend about them if it is in a bad way. but of course there is drawbacks if the guy can't keep the secrets. i mean, it's not like guys are less trustable than girls, but often you talk about the opposite gender with a same gender so maybe the secret can somehow be known by all people?? ahhh but i think the opposite gender can be good friends but not till best friend. what? -SUNHEE-
ReplyDeleteI agree about the fact teenage guys and can't be bestfriend!
DeleteSo true! I agree...
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DeleteI totally agree with this
DeleteInteresting ideas, Sun Hee. Its not always the boy who ends up liking the girl. I don't think it can be about attractiveness because once people are friends its usually personality and connections, likes and interests that really attracts people to other people.
ReplyDeletein my opinion, i think that being a friend of a different gender has good and bad things. but it is mostly bad. having a friend of the same gender makes you feel comfortable in saying anything but if a boy wants to talk to a girl about something they wont feel really comfortable so they have to watch what they say. also if someone loves the other that could ruin their friendship a lot, if the other person doesn't like them back.
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DeleteGOOD JOB AMRO!! i definitely agree with u! the same gender makes you feel comfortable in saying personal things! xD
Deletegood job amo :)
DeleteTrue Amro! But as a girl i like how with boys you can act differently than with girls. Like if a guy says something rude or insulting you can punch him in the arm and tell him to shut up - something I'd never to do a girl friend.
ReplyDeleteI had a friend of the opposite gender for 8 years. She was my best friend. We never had trouble talking and I saw every day. Although we lost contact she will always be my first friend.
ReplyDeletesuch a great(?)(?) sentence... wow it shows your honesty:P
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