I cannot be friends with men
I was begining to think it was odd that in 23 years I had never achieved a close friendship with a straight guy. Whenever I realised I was enjoying spending time with a guy friend he started flirting or asked me out. Every. Single. Time.
The most flattering conclusion I could draw is that I am abnormally attractive and thus irresistible. However I have 2 sisters very similar looking to me, both of whom have their own crop of heterosexual male friends.
The problem, I think, stems from my personality; I have a messed up sense of humour, I listen to metal and “emo” music and wear band merch and bold makeup and especially when I was younger I was very into nerdy fandoms. These all combined into a marmite love-me-or-hate-me type personality where guys either found me completely disinteresting or saw me as “their type” and quickly coded me as girlfriend/fuck buddy potential. There doesn’t seem to be a “middle ground” of platonic friendship between these two extremes.
So basically I propose that I can’t be friends with straight men because I’m too polarising. Does anyone else feel the same? Have you observed a similar phenomenon with the weirder girls you know?