They sure can. I'm a woman and I have a close male friend named Dan. We like to watch movies together, and we can talk for hours. Dan and I are both friends with a woman named Alice. Alice lives with her boyfriend now, but she and Dan used to share an apartment. Dan and Alice are good friends. Neither Alice nor I were ever romantically involved with Dan. I know another man named Steve. Steve is close friends with both me and my sister. When he's in town, he comes to visit. We mostly play video games, surf the internet, and talk. Sometimes Steve brings his girlfriend Jamie. Once he brought Jamie and Jamie's best friend Andrew. I'm friends with a lot of other men, too. I'm studying computers, so I meet more men than women at college. Sometimes they're interested in me romantically or I'm interested in them, but a lot of the time there's no chemistry, or the chemistry dies as we get to know each other and realize we wouldn't be compatible. Then we can just be friends. I think it would be terrible if men and women couldn't be friends, because there are so many wonderful people I would never be able to know. I also wouldn't be able to have many friends at school because there aren't a lot of women in my major.

Certainly. Inevitably! Thank heavens. It might seem confusing when you are young and single. Love is in the air, in all directions. The important thing you discover is that the only love worth having is when it is mutual! So let's say you find your loved one (of the day, or of your life, who knows?) then of course you have no interest in others. Except as 'other kids at school' let's say. More brothers and sisters. Interesting romantically? No. Friend material? Sure! Playmates? Why not? And I find the same peace even when we are both single, and we look at each other and I say 'if there were going to be fireworks, they would be there, right? And they're not. That's cool. Let's go do things friends do! ! Friends are great, and you love your friends jsut like you love everyone. There's no difference between kinds of love. There's just love. What is different is if you are intimate with someone, or not. But even if you are not, do you care about them? Certainly! Do you love them, are they your friends? Absolutely! And it's a good thing, because that's most of the other people on the planet. It would be a shame to miss out on half the good friends you could have.

yes if both of them understand "to be friends" in the same way.

Of course they can, men work along side of women in most occupations. However it is up to individuals if they take matters further than being friends at work.Usually romances at work lead to the woman being transferred elsewhere, especially if her boss was her lover and the romance ended.

If two people can get along and talk together ,I think they will be good friend.