Why girls shouldn't have boy bestfriends

Subtitle: I refuse to say I was a princess.

This isn't one of those strategies boy-next-door player types do to win over a girl. I'm NOT talking about bestfriends turned lovers or the other way. I'm talking about real deal, decade old, you're-not-interesting-to-me-even-if-you-are-naked kind of friendship.

Of course, it has its perks. You always have an automatic cock block whenever someone hits on you. You get male opinions first hand (it's up to you to listen or not). You are updated about sports, cars (and hot new chicks) without having to pry or geting out of your way. You have outlets for your monthly rants and raves (whose ears go in automatic shut down at the first sigh). You get to expand your network and have a lot of girl friends from various social circles. You get to have a quiet but un--boring ordinary afternoon (as watching TV or laptop-ing is always the most popular past time). You have that utility of a very convenient stereotype of being weak-- never having to carry your own luggage, lift chairs, down drinks or drink your old man's poison and you're always shotgun in rides and a lot of other things. Plus you get that convenience of never being affected that you're the only girl in your barkada who doesn't have a boyfriend. They can be worthwhile substitutes for boyfriends too, with an added discount on the emotional baggage! Actually having boy bestfriends can turn a little girl's wish of becoming a princess into reality.

BUT.. Come on, it doesn't stop there. Just like we never knew what happened in the 'happily ever afters', there wasn't any field guide telling you that having boy bestfriends can really be (**beeeep**). First off, they will always have something to say about any guy you are dating or you just merely watched a movie with!

Look honey if you don't want to be treated less of a girl (cause boys can really get used to having you around that they don't even shower) don't have one. Of course they can never say you are getting fat, not that they're nice or whatever--- but just by plain reason they never check you out. [Not that I'd like to be checked out... eeewww no!] I just like to think I'm thin when I'm thin and know I'm fat when I'm fat (it is a girl thing).

I think the reason I became a cheerleader is because of those mountain-ous hours spent watching their ball games. If you don't want to be third wheel like half of your life, I say don't do it. If you don't want to be an object of jealousy or be used as a scape goat, bail out now. If you don't want to be treated less pretty (Hello admit it, every girl wants to feel she's pretty) and if you don't want to lose your communication skills, be happy with girl best buddies, I tell ya! Because there is not a single book that will tell you what to expect when you've had that loooong friendship with a boy. (NO matter how much you say you'd not be friends anymore, there's that level of attachment you divert from giving to your boyfriend--- as boyfriends at this age is temporary). I think I listened too much when my pop told me to put friends first. And how annoying would it be that he can't be the best man in your wedding as it is traditionally the groom who picks the best man.

And most of all, no book will tell you that you can't really own them. That's just how this fancy world works. What right have you if say, he gets a girlfriend you might not like? And how awful will you feel when you're not the closest girl to him na-- I mean duh, he can't stay unmarried forever just because you are best friends! Also, it will come to a point where you can't be too playful and hugging anymore. And it's just too weird (or atleast people would like to impose it is weird) to have all these emotions in you because people would assume you love the person more than a friend. Oh come on people!! Stop asking me if I ever dated my bestfriend, that's just too gross. Kase naman, we are malicious beings. Yes we are. That's the reason why girls shouldn't have boy friends. Girls would be friends forever. Boys would have to think of their careers, their girl friends and their wives. You can be friends for a decade or thirty years, but in the end you will always just be the best friend. You can never stop them from leaving.

I still say it's better to just dream of becoming a princess...

Don't have it on a borrowed time, cause there's nothing less glamorous than saying "was".