Is it normal the only way a man and a woman can be close friends is

If you think calling a woman masculine and saying she is repulsive is something you can say without offending women, you're an imbecile.
Why do women have to fit your standards of beauty?

Disagree.

After my brother passed away his wife and son moved in with me so I could be their financial support. We’ve lived together for a few years now and it’s never been sexual or romantic, and I definitely don’t find her repulsive, she’s very attractive.

We are incredibly close, I help raise her son, and her and my fiancée are very close friends now too. I’ve had plenty of beautiful women as close friends without any sexual or romantic drama.

No.

I don't think so. I have a few male friends I've had for years, and one I'm super close with (who I actually briefly dated in high school, but we've been friends since childhood before that). I have no idea if the others are repulsed by me physically or not, but my close friend/ex and I have no issues with our nearly 20-year friendship and view each other almost like family now.

Um...lol im not sure. If you find someone " repulsive" would you even wanna be friends?

Trust and self control also help.

Well tbh all my guy friends have admitted they have feelings for me. However they could all accept and respect a no and still wanted to remain friends because after all we enjoy each others company and if it's all about sex... Well there's plenty of other attractive women out there. It is possible to stay friends with someone you have feelings for, i've done it once. Eventually those feelings subside, you date and eventually you meet someone else. You just gotta make the choice to emotionally move on, I think some people are unfortunately not able to comprehend that moving on is a choice you have to actively make and then open your heart to the possibility of meeting someone who'll actually want you back. Plus people often get friendzoned because they simply hit on people they're not compatible with, they just go on apperance and project their "dream partner" onto a fitting person who looks like that person does in their fantasy and don't care to see deeper than that, really. Whereas the other person may actually be realistic and see the ways in which you wouldn't work out as a couple. Some people can actually be great friends but would pretty much murder each other in a relationship, that's because those two types of relationships are so very different and has completely different dynamics. I really don't understand how so many people doesn't realize that.

I dunno, not all straight men are selfish dirtbags, but if you're my so called friend, and want more than I can given then your not worthy of friendship, much less anything. If someone isn't willing to be be my platonic, nonsexual friend then he will NEVER be deserving of anything else is my attitude. Just because some guy is attracted to a woman doesn't mean that he deserves anything from her. Lots of so called "nice guys" pretend that they can be friends, but have their selfish covert agenda all along... their human garbage.

Not remotely. Stupid idea mate.

Your basically assuming no men have any self control.

Dude, there might be something too this tbh. I remember there was this lesbian we used to hang out with; me and my mate were talking one day and he said something along the lines of "I know she's a lesbian but you still want to make her attracted to you, you know?", and he was right. We all knew we weren't gunna be getting any, but still, she was an attractive female so we all flirted with her and wanted something to go down.

No doubt if her partner was a butch girl, or when I've been talking to butch girls in the past, there's no sexual attraction. I think you're onto something dude in that there's nearly always going to be a sexual chemistry, and that generally guys stay well clear of the really butch/masculine looking women.

Are you female?