Can Woman and Men actually be friends?

YES                                                                                                                            Personally I do think so. I have friends from the both sexes and we are just fine. I do see the point of view behing that statment but I think it variates with different ages and how you were raised. Especially with guys, some of them you could say, don't get any femmale attention whatsoever and think that talking to a woman is just for the porpuse of having a girlfriend. With my current besfriend for exampple, he's got many friends, both femmale and male, and mainly, most of the time, talks to women and never has he acted desperate with them or just talked to them for the sake of hooking up or getting a girlfriend. Does he like woman? Yes he does, but that doesn't mean any woman he sees is going to be a potential girlfriend.  I don't know what to blame specifically for this mindset that woman and men can't be geniune friends, but I defend my case that they truly can. I'll keep it short cuz I don't want to make this too long.                                                             pls voice your opinion if u can, I wanna know what ya'll think about this and why