Wednesday, July 4, 2007
2. Discuss, "A platonic friendship is possible even between a guy and a girl(close bonding between a boy and a girl does not necessarily mean they like each other)". Labels: (i say good-bye)
I'm going to argue that Platonic friendship isn't possible. First I'm going to say what Platonic friendship is. Then I'm going to say why it's not possible.
Platonic friendship, then, is any friendship that isn't mediated by physical bodies. It's friendship between Souls. It's friendship that's supposedly so deep that those involved aren't even aware of (or, at least, aren't at all concerned with) the trivial features of their respective bodies. In particular, it's friendship where those involved aren't at all concerned with their respective sex organs. It's as if the friends involved are asexual.
defination of platonic friendship:
-The friendship exists between non-gay, non-celibate (but not necessarily sexually active) members of the opposite sex.
-The friendship is sexually safe, where "sexually safe" means that the friendship presents little risk of heartbreak, and little risk of spontaneous sexual contact resulting from unbridled passion.
A guy and a girl could meet in a chat room, I suppose, never come into personal contact, never reveal themselves as male, female, and so on, and, in this way, form a sexually safe relationship between non-gay, non-celibate members of the opposite sex. But so what? As the anecdotes above reveal, the possibility of this kind of friendship isn't what anybody's worrying about.
The point is, sex matters, and we're fooling ourselves if we think otherwise. It matters that I have one kind of sexual organ, and it matters that you have another. (And if this is making any of us blush, then I've proved my point.)
To say that Platonic friendship isn't possible is also to recognize that, even where a guy and a girl do exercise enough caution to be "just friends," the friendship they form will still be one between a guy and a girl, not one between two neuters.
the end
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