“I find women too difficult”

I've shared flats with men and women and some of them have been arsehokes regardless of sex.

Most of my friends now though are female.

I’ve done house-shares with men and women and generally I prefer women; in my experience they’ve been more chill, more sociable, more considerate, better at keeping the place clean and sharing chores evenly, and less likely to hit on me when drunk.

I wouldn’t rule someone out entirely because of gender but to be honest my experiences would definitely inform my decision on who to live with.

I have male and female friends though the vast majority of my close friends these days are women due to just getting on better with them.

I get on better with blokes but I'm quite direct. Blokes don't hold grudges if you say something that might upset someone.

I suspect I am neuro diverse.

The older I get, the more I appreciate and love my female friends.

I tend to find men easier to be around than women, although my closest friendships are with other autistic women. I just find men easier to read for some reason. I think they use less non-verbal communication and I struggle to understand facial expression and body language.

I probably wouldn't mention this to anyone though (except on an anonymous forum) as I know it would sound odd.

Men and women do broadly differ in their social interactions, some of which will be due to how we are taught to relate to other people as we grow up.

I'm neurodivergent and had some really horrible experiences with other girls growing up - I didn't understand their unwritten social rules and conventions, and the penalties for breaking them can be particularly brutal for a neurodivergent girl. It does get easier as everyone matures but I do personally find it difficult to find a female social group where I fit in.

Men are usually easier for me to fathom (and they tend to respect my bluntness rather than find it rude), at least until they start wanting more than friendship. That's unfortunately killed a few friendships since they didn't want to hang around after I turned them down.

Of my current set of friends, my closest two are a married man and an autistic woman. But I would like more neurotypical female friends (I currently have one) - I get very excited when I gel with someone who matches that description. It's difficult to find them as an adult though.

For work / living / friendship groups, I prefer them to be mixed rather than all one sex or the other.

My experience in regards to people who say things like this ^, and the person the OP is referring to, is that they are the problem, and there is reason other women don't enjoy their company

My sister says this, she finds women in groups difficult to get on with. I strongly suspect she's ASD, undiagnosed, but we have a strong family history of it. She says she finds women in general bitchy, my experience has been the opposite but I wonder if she just struggles with some unspoken social cues.

I’m sharing my opinions based on experience.

Exactly! The misogyny on here is rife.

Oh give over, will you. What sweeping generalisations. All the things that you described as men being are all the things that women can be as well and vice versa.

I know several men who are world class at holding grudges.

i used to work in a very female dominated profession and now I work in an office with men and women and honestly I don’t find it much different.

It’s fine to prefer the company of males or females that is someone’s personal choice and they can live their life that way if they prefer to. However it’s ridiculous to make blanket statements like “women lie “ or women are “difficult” or men “never hold grudges” etc etc

In my experience a group of males tend to be more of a team. On the surface they seem harsh to each other with their ‘banter’ but beneath it they rub along in a ‘live and let live’ kind of way. Their group cooperation is often quite practical, they seem to need nor want much direct emotional support from each other.

A group of females on the surface seem much nicer to each other, but beneath it tend to be more competitive, individually selfish and want / resent others having the spotlight of attention. Basically it’s just more drama.

I think the best working or living groups are actually mixed. But I’d never live or work in an exclusively female environment, would find it very tiresome quite quickly.

Female posters on here make negative generalisations about men ALL the time without being challenged. But as soon as anyone makes a negative generalisation about women they screech about how unfair it is and how all women are individuals. It's pretty funny really.

Well, I think he's cute and you can probably tell from my username that I think he's fascinating.

I've just thought of a new game, 'fantasy houseshare'.

This what?

So you're admitting you're also a frequent liar, then?

Yeah, sounds like a classic “pick me.” Usually they don’t get on with women because women find them fake and irritating.

They certainly do say it as they see it and I've noticed they are absolute bullies to one another and this is dressed up as "banter". Taking the piss out of one another for what they are wearing or not being able to drink enough, peer pressure to do things they don't want to do (particularly on stag dos). Both sexes can be horrible but they do it in different ways it's not a male or female thing.

In the same way some men have got worse especially with us reverting back to the Stone Age with the likes of Andrew Tate and his kind, influencing a whole generation of men to be misogynistic alpha males who want subservient and submissive trad wives.

She's not very intelligent but is very mysoginist. Stay away from her.

You mean thankfully they’re not all like Brian Cox, surely?!? Dull as dishwater!