Jameela Jamil

That is just my personal opinion.

You should invest in both, but your friendship should not be going by the wayside for love because love is very, very, it's not guaranteed.

It's transient.

So as a woman, you are just expected to pour outwards.

And when you pour outwards towards girlfriends, you are more likely to get something back.

And I love my boyfriend and he is my best friend, but there's a specific magical bond that women have with each other that I'm so sad that so many men in the West in particular don't have.

I don't think it's men worldwide, because when I look at men in the Middle East, for example, they face each other, they kiss each other on the cheek, they're very tactile, they're very emotionally invested.

I'm not saying they have a perfect culture, but I'm just saying that the friendships between men, there is a real sense of brotherhood over there.

And you see this in many other cultures as well.

Certain places in Europe, the men are more likely to go fishing together and go and actually plan things with one another.

It specifically feels quite United Kingdom and United States for men also to disappear their lives into their marriages.

And women are really known for preparing for their third act, whereas men don't.

Men atrophy after middle age and they allow their friendships to...

to dissipate and they're expecting, well, my wife will have friends and I'll just make friends with the husband of whichever friend of hers I get along with.

And they lose their own sense of stability and then they lose their sense of self.

No.

Okay.

No, I think men have been misguided by patriarchy to think that there is no reason to live other than you work and then you raise a family, even if you don't really spend much time raising that family.

It's just like you provide and you protect and you go out and have a job.

I don't think men have really been instilled with much meaning by patriarchy.