I've had a series of events in the past to buttress my point about this. There's ONLY one thing women care about: their own selves. To them, it's either you're taking care of their sexual and physical (gifts, help, money, protection, etc.) needs at the same time or you're just taking care of their physical and emotional (vent bin) needs at the same time; you can't be neither—that is: you stand no chance of a relationship with them when you belong to neither beneficial (to them of course!) categories.

In the past, especially when I was in high school, I was unlike over 90% of the guys (not projecting self-righteousness here, just being honest) who would form some friendships with some girls with the future hope that she'll reciprocate their "genuine" help-giving and kindness with intimacy and sex. I'd hardly initiate a casual chat with the girls in my class or around campus beyond highly necessary moments of needing to ask them for something (say something that belongs to me which they borrowed).

Many (most, in fact, all) of the friendships I had with girls were ones where the girls thought there was some charisma and interesting mystery surrounding my reticence (and intelligence) and so initiated the conversation; for some too, they bothered me with having to teach and explain some concepts to them (some had other reasons beyond this). So that was how my female friendships would averagely begin. I was also very shy and introverted, and later on through careful observation I realized some of the girls tried to take advantage of that aspect of me.

My general attitude towards girls then was that of indifference. I didn't care one bit about them and was totally fascinated by knowledge more than the girls. Some of my friends were surprised I never talked to the girls and some of the girls were even bothered I was too quiet and not interested in them.

However, these are a few things I physically and psychologically gathered from my three years of female friendships (note that I am a very observant person about people):

• Some of the girls obviously had sexual interest in me, in fact I psychologically sensed one time when in class two girls right around me use passive-aggressive (I think it was even more active than passive because they seemed clearly emotionally charged against each other) tactics against each other just to have my attention. One of those girls once tried to seduce me in class! The other girl was generally very clingy towards and very thoughtful of me. I think one was a 6 and the other more of a 7. I subconsciously made it clear to them I had no interest in them, though I would still genuinely, unconditionally help them when they needed me (note that I wasn't rudely verbal with my romantic rejection of them, just plain nonreciprocation, though I still inwardly appreciated their feelings for me); there were other girls who also had interest in me, though they were covert about it but their actions betrayed their feelings. The observation I made here was many of the girls would ONLY initiate a friendship with you when they perceive some quality in you which they can benefit from or when they are sexually interested in you, period; no other reason. They are unlike guys who would casually and randomly spark some conversation with some other dude, without any expectations, and without any ulterior motives (not saying this can't happen among guys though, you get what I mean.) Girls/ women form friendships for expected/ perceived benefits, guys form friendships for the fun and true purpose of it.

• I accidentally happened to fall for some few girls (hilarious isn't it?); one or two in my class, and the others in other classes. (Have I already mentioned I was very shy?) Unlike many guys who'd try to seek a relationship with the girls they had interest in, I rather internalized that feeling I had for them. Of all the girls I had interest in, for some of them, I sensed a glaring impression that they too were also interested (especially one girl in my class and some other two girls or so in other classes) but wanted me to confess what I feel first (which of course I never did except through text and letter writing respectively to two of them I confessed to, which I even later regretted; one, which I would call "emotional accident/ mistake"). However, one of the girls (whom I was honestly particularly interested in) which I knew was secretly also interested played hard-to-get games on me. Looking back, it quite sometimes emotionally triggers me how she made me waste both emotional (she knew I was extremely interested in her—through my frequent glances at her, obvious facial proofs/ signs, and confession through a letter, etc.—yet teased me with occasional glances and other body languages that signalled "I am also interested but you have to struggle to get me.") and mental (intellectual: I helped her academically, and also wrote poems for her) efforts on her. One thing I learnt/ observed here was a girl/ woman would slyly use friendship as an excuse to abuse you emotionally or manipulate you to waste your time on her or even spend on her. That whole "friendzone" (I really hate this term) concept is nonsense, don't fall for it.

This is too long already, though there's much more which I observed in and outside school which I'd want to talk on. The message is: Don't waste your time forming friendships with women—it hardly works: true friendships exist exclusively between men, friendship is a male thing, period. Women would use you, manipulate you, abuse you, and all of course to their self-interest and selfish gains, all in the name of "friendship". They don't understand what friendship is; they have a loose selfish definition of it. It's either they benefit from it or in their selfish minds you're either a "bad friend" or "let's end it, it's taking us nowhere." While I realized in retrospect that for all my past, numerous female friendships, I expected nothing (except the pure romance feelings I had for a few of them which I expected sincere intimacy with them, not even raw sex) but was only interested in helping my friends, those girls had a different look of our friendship. Stay safe MGTOWs.