Nowadays a lot of people seem to equate this friendliness with flirting. Like to chat with your female coworker about stuff outside of work? She might think you are hitting on her. Like hockey and want to watch the game with some friend from your Linear Algebra class? He thinks you're just doing it because you have the hots for him.
I remember back in high school, I had some girls who I was kind of friends with. One day one of them asked me to go see a movie since we hadn't talked in a long while due to university. A few days later I saw that another awesome movie we we both enjoyed was coming out and I asked if she wanted to go see it and grab some sushi near the theaters that we both loved thinking we could start hanging out again. She says maybe and after that she kind of cut off her connection with me again.
I asked her what was up a few weeks later and she said she thought I was asking her out and she didn't like me that way. I told her I was treating her like I treat all my guy friends, that I want to hang out with her and be friends and that cleared everything up.
This wasn't the first time that something similar has happened with girls who I am friends with either. Has anyone experienced this kind of thing when you treat new friends of the opposite sex friends the same way you treat your same sex friends? Do you think that the society of today kind of teaches us that when guys and girls show interest in each other, they are trying to get in each other's pants?
