While women tend to build activities around their friends, men approach friendship in a more transactional way, building friendships around activities. Whether it’s watching sports, playing sports or socializing as part of a club, men are focused on the doing more than the being, especially when compared to the way women do friendship. Men are even more likely to focus friendship around joint activities and are more likely to speak about those activities when they are interacting with each other. While women prioritize smaller groups or one-on-one interactions with their friends, men tend to
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