Terrible fucking idea. You don't have abundance, therefore you shouldn't have female friends.

Most women view men as a "resource".

what can he do for "me".

Can he fix stuff for me, can he listen to me vent, can he hang around and attract other men for me, and so on.

So, to be "friends". As others have said, first, it's a woman you wouldn't want to bang. The rest is, not being taken advantage of/ used.

You make sure if there's benefits being traded, it's 50/50. You want me to fix that faucet in your apartment, ok, make me a good dinner or buy me a bottle of bourbon.

I've had friends like this. They usually are women without a "LTR", as soon as they get into a LTR, I'm ghosted. which makes sense. She doesn't want to try to convince her guy I wasn't banging her.

I'm gonna agree with everyone else and clarify why. Dancing is a good way to meet female friends. It's fun, it's co-ed, and everything is set up for it to happen. That assumes you have a local dance scene. I recommend ballroom dancing. Maybe take lessons if available and needed.

You'll have to watch out for those one-sided friendships. We call this being an orbiter or a "nice guy" and getting taken advantage of. Just treat them exactly the same as you would treat a guy friend.

Some of the benefits of having a few female friends are:

1. You get calibrated to talking to women without looking at their boobs or acting awkward.

2. They provide pre-selection and social proof to other women.

3. They will try to play matchmaker and find you hot chicks to bang.

4. You can practice red pill stuff on them without any major consequences. Just be careful not to hurt their feelings. Us guys do nuclear shit tests on each other and most women can't handle that.

You are taking the easy way out again. Besides it being difficult and rare to make genuine female friends, I would strongly advise you not to. Based on your prior post I would conclude that you are the perfect mold for a long-term friend zone occupant. You are so ignorant of female nature that you could easily be trapped. They might not vent about Chad to you, but they'll definitely find 20 other ways to keep you locked in. Stop obsessing over females and focus on improvement

I don't think I believe in female friends anymore, specially if they're single.Best case I can think of is if you're friends with another couple, that could work specially if you have a partner.

I hardly consider most men friends after seeing how easily they turn when pressure is applied to them (chance to fuck, police, etc.) I wouldnt consider any women a friend. I only consider acquaintances. I'd say chat everyone up with a positive attitude. I wouldn't text back and forth or spend time on the phone but just meet people and trade contacts

It depends what you mean by friends. If you mean real friends, I don't think men and women make good friends. Women generally want entertaining in social situations and look to men to provide something or other -help doing "man" tasks for them like moving furniture, fixing the sink or they want you to pay for their food and drinks when out, Some want to vent to a beta orbiter, some want to get into your pants. None of this makes for good friendships. The last woman I agreed to be friends with was pregnant a month later. I really should have known better as I told her men and woman can't be friends but she claimed to share some of my interests. These days I simply avoid them socially. Its Briffault again. They expect benefit to flow to them in any kind of relationship.

Now that said you can act friendly with women and get called a friend but you mustn't actually believe it is real. You can also associate with them in work and in leisure just fine but never actually think of them like you would of a male friend - as a comrade, someone who you have his back, he has yours and you want nothing from him only good for him because he wants the same for you.

Its best to find women who share a common purpose and associate with them, so you like the gym, talk to women in the gym about their goals, their workouts, the structure of their sets, share nutritional ideas with them, be genuinely interested in what they have to say. Only talk to the ones who actually know anything, pay no attention to their looks, never chat them up. Mentally decide you will never try to bang them. This sort of thing will actually teach you about women as they will let slip a lot in their conversations. This kind of thing works OK, so long as you keep it on that level. When they say "I am moving flats can you help me?" say "yes but you will owe me one", then make sure you ask the favour to be repaid soon at an appropriate level (of course nothing sexual, and not having cake baked for you, something actually useful).

You are going to have to do a lot more reading my friend.

Men and women cannot be friends. It can be useful to have a few female friends in school but once you are an adult, you have got to face reality - men and women cannot be friends.

You need to go back to the drawing board. You should be asking how you can grow your network of guy friends.