University-of-Virginia

Men and women can be purely platonic friends, but there are exceptions. UVA culture, like hookup culture and societal pressure to find a partner in college, can impact opposite gender friendships. Some people feel the need to rush into a romantic relationship instead of maintaining a normal friendship. UVA has a high rate of couples meeting and marrying, similar to BYU. Okay, I'm here with Rola Sarah Okay, so for the first question we have Can men and women be purely platonic friends why or why not? If you need a second It's a yes or no question right no I mean you can say I think it's Mostly no, but there are very few exceptions to that. I That's my guess I feel like depending on the situation It can get a bit weird but mostly Yeah, mostly no, but they are exceptions. That is my final answer I think it's possible, but I think you'd be It'd be uncommon to have a situation where you have like Two hetero friends who have not at least thought about it once or twice. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I agree with that Okay, and the last question. How do you think UVA culture impacts opposite gender friendships? Okay, like okay, I'm gonna speak on it in two ways like the overall UVA culture. I feel like Just colleges in general have very like hookup culture kind of asking things where I've seen a lot of my Not like non-muslim friends or like non-religious friends um Hook up with their like platonic quote-unquote platonic friend, and then it like got weird because it was like in the moment But I feel like in a like a religious Muslim sense What's the question? How do you think UVA culture impacts opposite gender friendships? Yeah, and then in like a religious sense I feel Like other people have stronger Influences that doesn't like UVA hasn't affected so like it would be the same no matter where they are I agree with the hookup culture points. I also think just broadly and society Societally, there's a lot of people feel this pressure that like you find your one person in college like You hear a lot of stories like parents who met each other in college or like it feels like kind of the last time you'll have this chance to find someone so I think that can also contribute to like people like rushing and like Even if you have a normal friendship to like always be considering like oh, but could it be some someone more or something more? Um So I think like both like the immediate culture, but also just broader like Fears of like what else am I going to be in the setting? Doesn't UVA have like the second highest like met in college marriage rate like after BYU? I think it's the second after like the Mormons Yeah, about like like a UVA Today official article about couples that met and got married from UVA So it's like there's a lot of this kind of signaling and you hear a lot about like students whose parents met at UVA Thank you for spending your time with us, yes