And still, I believe, that it is possible for women to make friends with men if they want it. It seems to me, that I have the right to declare it because I have know some cases of such relationships from the book "Russian women marriage" which I have read recently. One woman tells us about her personal experience. It turned out, that she has got many friends among men and she doesn't have close relations with them. The relationship with them developed quite smoothly. Her personal life developed quite well too. Surely, she couldn't go to the bath with such a friend and he would hardly take her fishing. However she was trusted with things that hardly would entrust to someone else, even to the wife (!!!). She appreciated this trust. So, my advice to you is the following: "a step to the right, a step to the left", and accents will be displaced aside intimate relations (though I am not against sex but, you should know your purposes. If to brighten up the lonely night or to marry him - my story not about that) or aside full indifference to you. And the sympathy of your friend is simply necessary for you! Friendship can't develop without mutual sympathy.
So, it is possible to have friendly relationships with men but not with all men, of course. Not with everything, certainly. For example, it is impossible to make friends with the yokel who claps a fist on a table and bellows at the wife: "who is the owner of the house?" It is impossible to make friends with the haughty intellectual who does not see friends among men, not that among women either. You can choose a friend for you yourself. However you should remember that to make friends among man you should- love them first of all. Basically, "as a class". Is sincere to be interested in their problems to understand their needs.