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SupaTuba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

As a woman with a few close male friends that I love very much, I wish it was more ok to hug and hold hands with them. I wish that friends, regardless of gender, could be close.

For some reason, in America, we just assume some kind of sexual attraction or relationship when people have any kind of physical contact.

But, man, sometimes I just want to hug my best friend when we’re both going through it. Sometimes, I just want to hold hands for the comfort of knowing that we’ve got each other. There’s nothing more to this want. It’s as simple as that. But it feels like an impossible dream for society to ever accept this.

So I don’t. And it hurts.

I dream of a day when men and women can all open up freely to each other, equally and without stigma. And a day when we can all comfort each other without rumors or questions.

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