[@ViolentViolet] I never had that problem with the guys I hung out with because both they, and their girlfriends (if they had them) were my friends. The guys I hung out with saw me more as sister, which I was cool with because it meant we could talk about stuff that they would otherwise feel uncomfortable with. 

The girls I hung out with, though, they were pretty normal in terms of how they tended to be. There was a lot of gossip, bullshitting, and whatnot. Most of them were pretty cool, allbeit hard to deal with at times. Two of them have a child by the same dad, which I find slightly amusing.