Is it appropriate for a man and woman to be platonic friends with each other? Mike Pence said he won’t go to dinner with a woman who is not his wife.

[JohnDB]

I love my wife...not just a passing acquiescence of cohabitation. I want nothing to do with any other woman in any way. However...my feelings are not guaranteed to be shared by every woman. Some women are aggressive and have no compunction about a married man. And when rejected they try to create a "scorched earth" policy of destroying the guys who reject her with complete fabrications of events. There are literally THOUSANDS of these stories on Reddit and YouTube.

A woman's greatest ability (generally speaking and not specifically) is not strength but manipulation of those she comes in contact with. And if she cannot manipulate a guy she will manipulate the crowd she generates by falsely claiming the guy who rejected her did something horrible.

Women live for validation and attention. If they can't get it by being good then they will get it for being secretly evil.

 

[Frankenstein]

He is a little bitch of course he's afraid

After witnessing what has happened to Trump? As much as I am not a huge fan of Pence, he is smart to do so!

 

[Frankenstein]

OK I realize I could be a little bit wrong on this original post. But to each their own any man and women in this country in this world has a right to decide if its ok to be platonic friends with someone of the opposite sex who is not a relative or a coworker..

I have many platonic women friends, I do not allow myself to be alone with them!

 

[lg325]

Sometimes married executive men have to'' do lunch'' with executive women the best thing is to let the arms length rule apply in theses cases. You always have trouble makers takinga photo and trying to hustle it.

 

[Augustine_]

After witnessing what has happened to Trump? As much as I am not a huge fan of Pence, he is smart to do so!

Lol yeah the women he cheated on his wives with and paying off a porn star who he fucked when his current wife was pregnant were just things that "happened" to him

Lol fuck you

 

[JohnDB]

I have many platonic women friends, I do not allow myself to be alone with them!

Yeah....like no kidding.
My wife and I are friends with other couples...we have play dates and dinners. I am extremely respectful of their spouses...I don't have their wife's numbers in my cell phone at all. I have the husband's numbers....but never the wife's. If I need to speak to their wife for some reason I have my wife do it or their husbands. I don't do it. This way I can't be accused of something and I really don't want to be.

And if I get "funny vibes" from a friend's spouse...I run away. All contact is limited more and more until it becomes years since I last seen her.

 

[Lesh]

I love my wife...not just a passing acquiescence of cohabitation. I want nothing to do with any other woman in any way. However...my feelings are not guaranteed to be shared by every woman. Some women are aggressive and have no compunction about a married man. And when rejected they try to create a "scorched earth" policy of destroying the guys who reject her with complete fabrications of events. There are literally THOUSANDS of these stories on Reddit and YouTube.

A woman's greatest ability (generally speaking and not specifically) is not strength but manipulation of those she comes in contact with. And if she cannot manipulate a guy she will manipulate the crowd she generates by falsely claiming the guy who rejected her did something horrible.

Women live for validation and attention. If they can't get it by being good then they will get it for being secretly evil.

You have a very low(right wing) opinion of women

 

[hadit]

You have a very low(right wing) opinion of women

A very high opinion of his wife, which is to be applauded.

 

[JohnDB]

You have a very low(right wing) opinion of women

Uhhhhh......no
I'm speaking from experience.

Even if an "evil manipulating women" only consist of 5% of the population....that means that 1 in 20 women will be more of a perpetrator than a "victim" but destroy my life in the process. Because roughly half of the thousands of people I come in contact with or the hundreds I have relationships with have the potential for being evil.

Even if the number is as low as 1% of the women....that means that I have some sort of relationship with a minimum of 3 women who will falsely accuse me of being a perpetrator for no other reason than they want attention. And I will have to spend a huge amount of time defending myself with nothing to use for my defense.

The majority of women aren't evil or so shallow. (At least the ones that I associate with...YMMV) But that doesn't mean that all. You can't avoid them in today's society. And if I do anything if note that puts me in the public eye who automatically has the upper hand with a false accusation?

 

[CowboyTed]

Uhhhhh......no
I'm speaking from experience.

Even if an "evil manipulating women" only consist of 5% of the population....that means that 1 in 20 women will be more of a perpetrator than a "victim" but destroy my life in the process. Because roughly half of the thousands of people I come in contact with or the hundreds I have relationships with have the potential for being evil.

Even if the number is as low as 1% of the women....that means that I have some sort of relationship with a minimum of 3 women who will falsely accuse me of being a perpetrator for no other reason than they want attention. And I will have to spend a huge amount of time defending myself with nothing to use for my defense.

The majority of women aren't evil or so shallow. (At least the ones that I associate with...YMMV) But that doesn't mean that all. You can't avoid them in today's society. And if I do anything if note that puts me in the public eye who automatically has the upper hand with a false accusation?

I even more weird than you...

I married someone who trusts me... She knows that I can be left in a room with other women and I am totally safe...

They are just people... Can your wife trust you with a gay man... Maybe you will have overwhelming urges?

 

[Frankenstein]

Lol yeah the women he cheated on his wives with and paying off a porn star who he fucked when his current wife was pregnant were just things that "happened" to him

Lol fuck you

Sure he did! Right back atcha clown

 

[Frankenstein]

Yeah....like no kidding.
My wife and I are friends with other couples...we have play dates and dinners. I am extremely respectful of their spouses...I don't have their wife's numbers in my cell phone at all. I have the husband's numbers....but never the wife's. If I need to speak to their wife for some reason I have my wife do it or their husbands. I don't do it. This way I can't be accused of something and I really don't want to be.

And if I get "funny vibes" from a friend's spouse...I run away. All contact is limited more and more until it becomes years since I last seen her.

Liberals just don't have that common sense which is too bad!

 

[Frankenstein]

I even more weird than you...

I married someone who trusts me... She knows that I can be left in a room with other women and I am totally safe...

They are just people... Can your wife trust you with a gay man... Maybe you will have overwhelming urges?

It's not a matter of trusting you it's a matter of what can be wrongfully accused of

 

[Frankenstein]

You have a very low(right wing) opinion of women

Sounds like he knows women from the left very well

 

[JohnDB]

I even more weird than you...

I married someone who trusts me... She knows that I can be left in a room with other women and I am totally safe...

They are just people... Can your wife trust you with a gay man... Maybe you will have overwhelming urges?

Overwhelming urge to puke and leave the room if trapped with a flaming homosexual.
But otherwise I simply love my wife and she loves me....at least I think so....I couldn't really hear her well as I was eating corn chips and the crunching was very loud.

 

[Unkotare]

FranklinRoosevelt_FTW

Another gay Russobot thread straight from the closet.

 

[debbiedowner]

So it's fuck 'em and leave 'em with you...

I thought it was the 4 F's. Did he leave the find them and feel them out?

 

[Moonglow]

I thought it was the 4 F's. Did he leave the find them and feel them out?

He still uses the manual

 

[Kruska]

I think it’s a business relationship and develops into a friendship

By the way, we’re there platonic relationships in the 1700s and 1800s like in the Victorian era. ? It would seem like that could create jealousy.

Kruska

I think you were discussing this earlier

IIRC - it was during the Tudor Dynasty that "courtly love" became a popular sport in England's upper class - and later was carried/promoted into the general society by people e.g. such as Shakespeare. Whereby it can be argued about, if the French practiced it and the later queen Ann Boleyn introduced it to the English court.
The quest or goal was to court someone - profess one's platonic love - and to keep him/her sexually at bay for as long as possible. Meaning as to who could keep a platonic relationship for as long as possible held a formidable reputation (one of the reasons/causes why King Henry's judicial advisors - managed to bring in a flood of accusations towards Ann Boleyn).

More or less a remake, or rather an enhanced version of the German Minnesinger custom of "courtly love" during the 12th to 14th century.

Until today this "courtly love" aka platonic relationship follows the same rules and guidelines, which isn't about having coffee with someone in order to discuss each others stamp collection - but to openly profess - admiration, connection of souls and love - without getting sex involved (which would destroy or end the play).

Therefore IMO, your brought in example with Pence has nothing to do with a "platonic relationship" - but simply about e.g. Pence avoiding gossip and scandal - or his wife beating the living daylights out of him - due to being caught, hanging around with another women.

 

[Leo123]

No, if your wife goes on a 'date' with her 'platonic' male friend, get a divorce.