I agree! which is so unfortunate and also does not transend to the female population, as women we have always been able to have friendships that are intimate but not sexual and so many more women have friends than a straight man can have without be pinged queer.
So instead of make friends, we guys make close female friends, and that confuses the relationship line even further. I've come to the conclusion that, to answer the age old question, men and women can't be "just friends" if there is the remotest possibilty that one might be sexually interested in the other. Otherwise it ends badly. In fact, I think this is all tending to keep me from being close to people in general. It's dangerous, and unpredictable in today's world. I used to have close confidants, usually female, sometimes male. Not anymore.