[Mezzie]

This is very interesting to me because I'm the reverse of you: I'm a female who is more drawn to the male version of friendship.

I don't want friendships that revolve around emotional support and intimacy; I want friendships that revolve around exploring and trying new things together. In my experience, friendships revolving around emotional support also demand that you need a certain amount of support and that you support the other person in the same way, and despite having a vagina, I'm not good at emotional support. Emotional friendships, in my experience, turn my emotions into a social display instead of just letting me feel them.

Men are also better at letting my main emotion be anger/annoyance. Women always want me to be sad or upset about things, but I'm more of a 'swear-filled rant and then work on something unrelated' type of person.

So I'd agree that it's cultural as well as biological. Either that or we're biological outliers (which would also make sense).