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Guy here, who feels it's easier to be friends with guys.
The fact that I'm bisexual might be relevant in my situation: I've had close male and female friends throughout my life. I got along with the other person great, as long as we kept things on a platonic level.
With both sexes it has happened that at same point either I or the other person developed non-platonic feelings toward the other, but never in a mutual sense, and at that point the close bond usually ended. This has occured literally every time with female friends, and only scarcely with male friends. This is a matter of pure statistics, but it it an example of how male friendships have worked out better for me so far.

Another factor is mutual understanding and having that kind of connnection almost any conceivable thing can be said, without having to worry you might inadvertently offend the other person or make them feel uncomfortable, maybe even get an empathetic response out of them. I've experienced this much, much more often with men than with women.

Then again, I also feel it's actually quite challenging for me to be platonic friends with a woman, even if I don't have sexual/romantic feelings toward them, mostly due to them assuming a man being consistently nice to them must mean that man has ulterior motives.

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