With bold is where there is a disconnect IMO. I don't have platonic female friends (outside of a few exceptions I always mention on them type of threads) either so we are basically the same in that aspect. Its just you were raised in a way different way than me on this issue. That's ok its what makes life life. Just for me telling a chick how to lift some weights ain't a platonic friend or chit chat. That's why I say its egotistical or a$$hole like behavior. I feel people with limited "friendly" interactions with the other sex seem to do that more often than those that do in my limited unscientific research lol. Id do the same to a dude give him some pointers or advice where to look and keep it moving. End of the day we both do it our own way this just Internet agree/disagree stuff right here that won't affect how either one of us conduct business IRL.
I feel you, but what you see as egotistical a$$holeness coming from me, is actually weakness.
Sometimes women excuse themselves from seemingly "friendly" interactions with us and we think "damn she full of herself"
But we never think "she might be feeling tempted and needs to get away for the sake of her relationship?"