Gender variables in friendship: Contradiction or not?The “___1___” memories I have of female friends are open and intimate. In comparison, memories of male friends are in an entirely different film altogether.My earliest childhood friend, Donald and I used to “fly” to America in an old abandoned German truck. We pretended there was an engine failure and “__2____” each other from certain death hundreds of times. But not one word of our evident feelings for each other was ever uttered. It was all done in ___3___.A recent occurrence made me reexamine and ____4_____ my behavior in a new light. One of my best friends, Jessica, and I were swimming at a beach in the Atlantic when we both thought we ____5____ a shark! In my panic, I fell back to save her. After we got back on the beach, she spontaneously said, “I love you!” and I replied, “Love you too!”The great difference in my ______6_______ styles can be justified according to a research: It seems that men and women have very different ____7_____ and rational processes. We are born with very different genetic tendencies which society encourages as either “masculine” or “feminine”. So it is perfectly normal for one to treat his / her male friends and female friends in entirely different ways.