all I could offer was, "I don't know. Sometimes men get weird about being misrepresented." "Men get weird about being misrepresented?" I threw my hands up. "Please don't goad me into a 'not all men' moment." "No, that's not what I'm getting at," he replied, impatience thick in his voice. "What I mean is, if someone can't handle being logically and reasonably mistaken for a significant other in a low-stakes situation, that person is probably forcing a lot of their own insecurities onto you. So no, not all men. Just the ones too fragile to deal with the idea of significance."

