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>I feel like all the other guys are fighting for their attention and seeing that I just don't want to try and participate in their contests.
Yeah I find this relatable. Would you maybe find it easier to talk to a girl one on one or in a group of only a few people, instead of feeling like you're in a competition just to have them pay any attention?
>I think I have to be way more interesting to get that kind of attention from girls, including just being friends.
Not really, from my experience you don't really need to be anything special in order to be friends. If you're just thinking that you're gonna go do something, or you're gonna go hang out and have fun and there are women there, that's not really something that requires you to be interesting in any special way. They probably don't put that much importance on the interactions with you, just like you said, so you don't need to either.
What I've found the easiest is to just join some communities where you can go casually hang out, where there are both men and women.
>It got me thinking why I don't have female friends like I have male friends, and believe me I do try to message and invite girls I think I'm good with to hang out like my male friends but it never works out.
Probably not all your fault then, and probably isn't really because of what you're like as a person. First of all some normies still feel like men and women can't be friends, like people (well adjusted adults) get legitimately uncomfortable if their boyfriend/girlfriend is hanging out casually with female/male friends. Then also the women probably are really sensitive to the possibility that you might wanna sleep with them, because that happens a lot. And then if both of you already have a bunch of friends you're hanging out with, it can be kind of difficult to build a new friendship unless you have something that's kinda pushing you to hang out.