>Researchers say women's friendships are face to face: They talk, cry together, share secrets. Men's friendships are side by side: We play golf. We go to footba

>Researchers say women's friendships are face to face: They talk, cry together, share secrets. Men's friendships are side by side: We play golf. We go to football games. That mode of friendship sounds terrible to me. I'm male and I like to be active with my friends (biking, hiking, going to shows, etc...). However, talking about the important pieces of your life (the happy stuff, anxieties, depressing things, etc...) atop a mountain or over a beer are absolutely essential. I feel like the author is foolishly generalizing from his own social life. I would probably feel alienated and unsupported if I had friends like his.