Re: AGE OLD QUESTION: Can guys and girls be friends?
Firstly, I was using the analogy to expose the ridiculous nature of the suggestion, rather than the depth of the connection between friends and betweee mother and child. I was trying to say that just in the same way that a mother would be baffled if someone said to her she could just swap her children as if they were toys, similarly I am astonished that there are people who think that friendship is of such a light and meaningless nature that friends can just be exchanged like goods are refunded. Would you consider it a reasonable request if I said “forget your white friends, swap them for some asians”? No. Similarly, I think it absurd that someone thinks I can throw out my male friends like yesterday’s leftovers and arbitrarily force relations with some random women.
Secondly, please give me the details of the doctor who said such a thing because I am guessing that in order to make such a stupid statement that clearly is devoid of any knowledge of psychiatry, the are most likely holding a fake degree and the hospital they are working at needs to be informed that they are a fraud. My entire family is full of doctors and several of them are psychiatrists, and they would be truly shocked if they heard a colleague make such a highly unscientific and untrue statement.