In this article, Lisa Wade emphasizes the desire of men to have more intimate friendships. She states that men want the same things as women from an intimate relationship: “emotion support, disclosure and having someone to take care of them.” This goes against what we have previously read about men, but at the same time it is not. She does not say that men go around expressing their need to talk about their feelings, therefore we can assume that this is hidden from other, judgmental, men in an effort to still appear manly. So how can men acquire these kinds of relationships from other men? It is difficult, they have to assume the man they are talking to wants the same kind of friendship, and if they assume wrong, they will lose their status.
