A nonsensical and sexist statement. You can have good friendships with other men. Friendships with women is not a necessary contingent precedent for that. Als

A nonsensical and sexist statement. You can have good friendships with other men. Friendships with women is not a necessary contingent precedent for that. Also reversing your statement to use women sounds immediately sexist: "...And be better able to discern which women to bother to pursue friendships with." The corollary being that not all women are good women, or worth your friendship, just because they're women.