As a female, how does it feel to be envied and sexually ignored by such men? They are as much your friends as any girlfriend... ie. they are cut-throat competitors to be Queen.
Useful for the moment, but hardly friends.
I don't think these two particular friends envy me - they are not in "cut-throat competition" and they are true friends rather than "useful-for-the-moment."
I do see a lack of hope in their lives, however, partially explained by the article being discussed here and partially because they are on an endless, hopeless, multi-city search for a relationship that is out of alignment with the way we are created (male + female union). One of these friends, in his early 40's, has expressly advised me he is in a fight with God, and he was brought up in a Christian church and is very clear about creation and God's clear opinion about homosexuality. The other is younger - mid 20's - and less honest with himself and not willing to consider the statements in this article or the truth of the bible.