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“This male-female friendship divide isn’t about biology—it’s the result of what we teach young men about masculinity. When NYU psychologist Niobe Way began researching friendship among male teenagers, she found that boys and girls are equally likely to talk about personal feelings with their same-sex friends. The change comes at around age 15, when boys start reporting that they don’t have or need many friends. That’s the same age that boys’ suicide rate increases to four times the rate of girls.”

Ezra Klein explains why men are so bad at friendship — Quartzy