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Monsour defines a cross-sex friendship as a "voluntary, non-familial, non-romantic, relationship between a female and a male in which both individuals label their association as a friendship". [2] However, just because these friendships are labeled as "non-romantic", one cannot assume that there are no romantic or sexual undertones.
Examples of film womances seem to be less prevalent than bromances. [2] In Her Shoes (2005), Baby Mama (2008), The Women (2008), Bride Wars (2009), The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005), Desatanakkili Karayarilla, an Indian Malayalam language movie (1986), and Bridesmaids (2011) have been seen as womances, and their characteristics and tropes discussed. [1]
A friendship educator and women’s coach, Jackson looks at the complexities of relationships between women to understand their fragility and help women to form and maintain more healthy friendships.
[citation needed] Along with this, the lack of commitment allows women to develop and maintain the strong ties between other single female friends. [citation needed] Female bonding can be further explored within the human context of relationships within the family. For example, the positive mother-daughter ties which develop have been described ...
[8] Although the term is apparently gender-neutral, the friend zone is often used to describe a situation in a male-female relationship in which the male is in the friend zone and the female is the object of his unrequited desire, or vice versa, where the female is being friend-zoned by the male, although less common.
A bromance is a very close and non-sexual relationship between two or more men. It is an exceptionally tight, affectional, homosocial male bonding relationship exceeding that of usual friendship, [2] [3] and is distinguished from normal friendship by a particularly high level of emotional intimacy.
Authors claim that this kind of friendship is similar to the same-sex friendship between women described in The Female World of Love and Ritual. For instance, Rotundo argues that male romantic friendship, like same-sex female friendship, was socially accepted, compatible with heterosexual marriage, [3] and valued. [4]
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