To join in on a "boys" night out?

[Middleagedmumoftwo]

So, we have a male friend that both my partner and I have known for years. All of us have gone out every couple of weeks together with various other friends male and female, depending who can get babysitters (we don't need one). Yesterday he informed me that him and two of the males were off out tonight to our usual haunt on our usual night, but I shouldn't go as it's "boys only". Just interested in other opinions on this...as far as I'm concerned we are all friends and I couldn't care what gender they are!

I love Is Your Bloke A Shagger?

Reminds me of those Cosmo quizzes!

I really don't get the whole boys night out or girls night out thing. It just seems so arbitrary. I mean, let's have a brown haired people night out and exclude the blondes.

I've never got it. My friends are my friends whether male or female (or brunette/blonde/bald ). A different mix of us may go out at any time, so occasionally it might just be all boys or all girls, but it's not done on purpose and given its own category of evening. Nothing different happens whatever the mix!

Agreed Smidge. I've known the guys as long as he has and often when hubby and I have gone out we've invited one or both of them to join us. I would just like to point out that while he might try and say to me "it's a boy's night" doesn't mean to say I take any notice (unless as one poster said, one of the guys had particularly requested a boys night to discuss a sensitive issue). If they were originally mates of his that I only knew vaguely I wouldn't go either, but we have all known each other since school.