So I don't know if this is relevant, since it's not as much about liking and disliking but feeling comfortable.

Boys and girls all played together in my neighborhood, thoroughly enjoying each other, until we were about 11, when all the flirting and everything else started.

At that point girls suddenly became alien beings to me. Didn't understand them at all.

At age 16, I went to a private arts school - 100 students in the high school section of the school, with me as 1 of only 10 men - meaning, in most my classes, I was the only guy.

Ever since then,I've generally found I enjoy women friends a bit more than male friends - can talk deep emotional stuff with them much more easily.

Up to the point of my first marriage, I thoroughly enjoyed having both male and female friends. In between my first marriage and 2nd (1992-1993) was a period where I once tried to have female friends, but the possibility of being in a romantic relationship always made it quite tricky.

I just in the last few months had a few conversations with Jan (my wife of 30 years) about how much I enjoy being with her and her friends. And also I joked, "but I can't be friends with them in the way I am with my guy friends."

(Making up the names here) Like, I particularly enjoy hanging out with her and her friend Lisa. But, I said to Jan, there's no way I would ever call up Lisa on my own and say, "Hey, do you have time to have lunch tomorrow." Yet when Lisa's car has broken down, I've driven her 60 miles to look at a new car, we laughed the whole way back and forth, and to the best of my awareness, there was never even one scintilla of a sense that anything was off.

So I guess the point is, guys, if you don't love women (I mean, in a platonic way), geez, you're missing out on being friends with half the human race.