I’m friends with this boy who is in a few of my classes. I’ve known him for four years and we’re both massive book nerds. He’s perfectly respectful to me, and even though he used to have a crush on me it’s not awkward anymore because he has a girlfriend. Unfortunately, two other boys who are in some of those classes with us make suggestive comments about us all the time. One of them even thought we were dating at one point, and now they act like we either are secretly or are both harbouring crushes. It’s really annoying and I wish that they wouldn’t make jokes like that, because it makes it more complicated than two people who like books and want to talk about them together. If we were the same gender, they wouldn’t think anything of it.
Why is it that people are apparently not allowed to be platonic with people of the opposite gender?
