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There was never a time in my life I didn't have to explain my relationships with guys to a significant other.
IM LITERALLY THE GUY IN THE PIC SKIN
My insides are like that - after years of being playfully harassed and ridiculed by my guy friends and being part of all kinds of disgusting jokes and inappropriate pranks, I've grown a thick skin that I'm proud of - but I also can't always draw a decency line. Eventually your hands end up so pummeled they just stop hurting. But drop me into a different group, and things can get uncomfortable pretty fast. In the same way a lot of us probably don't realize how our Kardashian-saturated culture has caused us to say, "I know, right?" a lot more than we'd all like to admit, the crass behavior of my dude friends has become a very real part of my own personality. and it's not typically thought of as the most ladylike thing in the world. Sure, it gets laughs (because The Pirate is hilarious), but here's the thing: I'm not always surrounded by a bevy of bros. Most times I even act it out with sound effects. Sometimes I catch myself in group settings talking about things like The Pirate (two words: Urban Dictionary). You get oddly comfortable being inappropriate But being confined to these labels can also feel claustrophobic. Minus the anatomy, there is zero difference in how I feel about these friends - they're basically girls (just don't tell them I said that).īeing one of the guys can be a lot of fun - and not just because groomsman wedding prep (drinking whiskey, playing pool) smokes that of a bridesmaid (nail salons, hairdressers).
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But in reality, with pure guy friends, there is no ulterior motive. Not to say I don't understand those labels, or haven't cast them onto others myself. It's all a bunch of symbolic labels that actually mean very little. Or, we're exalted for how cool we seem: the ones guys fall in love with, the ones other girls want to be. And while I'm proud to say I'm not in that camp, women in my shoes are at least assumed to have an ulterior motive. Listen - a women with no girlfriends is not to be trusted.
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People often confuse you for the women we all love to loathe - the ones who talk about fellow ladies like this: "Girls just never seem to like me. Or, on the other end of the spectrum: a slut. If you run with the boys, you're a guy's girl. Being "one of the guys" earns you a lot of labels