Why do white chicks like Friends? Well for starters, it lets them feel in a non-threatening way that it is perfectly acceptable to fail miserably at countless relationships and be over 30 and un-married. Now I'm not saying it ISN'T acceptable, I'm just saying that women of a certain age feel a lot of pressure to lock down a husband and start crapping out spawn. This phenomenon is known as adolescence. And ever since that time, women feel this need to hang onto their man. Friends shows them that even if they don't, they can always marry that sweet, cute, kinda dorky guy who lives across the hall. It also reinforces the myth (which the Gurftastic blog had thoroughly de-bunked) that Exs can remain friends after a breakup. This of course is known as "delusional fantasy". It even postulates that people can date within a small group of friends and everyone will be cool and totally not weirded out by it. Yeah.
Let's examine the characters a bit: there are three girls and three guys. Ladies first, please: There's the hot, rich, daddy's girl, who's all grown up and having "big girl's life in the big city". Every girl identifies with this character a little, because either A) they are rich and spoiled by their father but desperately trying to prove they don't need him, or B) their father treated them like shit and they desperately wish to be this character. Next up is the "whacky" girl. She's a little off-kilter, but really fun once you get to know her. She's one-part Massachusetts liberal (reads Mother Jones), one part every girl in NYC who wants to "let loose" one night and gets trashed and a little loose-lipped with her friends. Every girl identifies with her, because they either feel strongly that they are this independent, free-thinking, hippie-culture-even-though-
Let's look at the boys, shall we? First is stereotypical vapid actor dude. He's basically an idiot, but is good-looking, and although he sleeps with a different girl every week, he's got a heart of gold (funny side note, while typing "heart of gold" on my iPhone, it translated my missed keystrokes into "wart of gold". Pretty brilliant). Every girl has fucked or wanted to fuck this guy. Consciously knowing he's a total player, but thinking that deep down he's really special and it will just take the right girl to bring it out of him. Next up, the safe dude. He's a doctor (of anthropology for some reason), is pretty nerdy and awkward, and a big sweatheart. He's just no good at relationships. AWWWWW! Every girl knows that this guy is good marriage material, but nobody really finds him attractive till they're old and be-haggard. Lastly, the funny guy! Always ready to break an awkward moment with a semi-witty comment, the funny guy is a total douche, but he's got a heart of gold. He's just got intimacy issues... Yeah!!!!
So there are your six 'Friends'. Obviously there's an attraction to the characters. But it's the inter-character development that really makes white chicks cream in their Victoria Secrets. The key thing with Friends is, all of the girls are friends. Like, there's never really a time when Monica stops talking to Rachel for a season because Rachel dicked over her brother. At no point does Phoebe fall into a depression and hang out by herself, or hang with a different clique of people. No, these three girls actually have an impossibly romanticized version of friendship, perhaps worse than the equivalent Romance/Comedy version of falling in love. On the show, none of the girls ever does any backstabbing against the other. There is no sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend because she forgot to do the dishes. There is no "she's better friends with her than with me, but I knew her first!". There is no competition for the boy's attention. No there's no "she's my good friend, but I'd never let her around one of my boyfriends, cause she would steal him". None of it. Instead, these girls live in impossibly large apartments in Manhattan, love each other genuinely, and whore themselves out to any guy who smiles at them at their local coffee shop. It's every white chicks' fucking dream come true. Because when it comes down to it, every white chick kinda hates her friends, because they are all competition to her on some level. But that's a topic for another diatribe. Where Sex and the City glamorized "big girls' nite out" and girls openly talking about sex and sexuality, Friends glamorized non-snipey friendship... Friends for friends-sake.
So now we have the dating circle. This is the 90210 phenomenon where people date within a select set of characters and nobody seems to really mind. This plays into the whole Exs as friends fallacy, as well as the impossible ideal that a girl can date her best friends ex, and it will totally be cool with everyone. It's a lie that white chicks love to play along with. They can date around and around the loop and there's no consequences. No weirdness, except for probably one episode where about 2 minutes is dedicated to, "Isn't it weird?" "Well, it was, but then... now it's not" "Awesome".
So that only leaves one more thing. Friends helps to alleviate every white chick's deep seeded fear that she will somehow, someday, someway be replaced by a tiny Asian girl. I think there may have been a time where one of the guys dated an asian chick, but I'm assuming it didn't work out. Pretty much at every other time in the show, the girl characters are always the centers of attention from all the guys. This helps to allay that nagging thought that pervades a white chick's consciousness... It could happen at ANY moment. It wouldn't take too much... one wrong move and BAM! Tiny Asian chick. But here in the land of Friends, there's no chance of that ever happening. On the show, none of the dudes are ever leering at the tiny Asian chicks roaming the city of New York. And none of the guys ever sit around talking about how they'd love to date an Asian chick for a while. Yeah, it's a fucking white girl wet dream.
So why DO white chicks like 'Friends'? It's obviously a complicated question. But I guess it's the same reason guys in rural areas fuck farm animals instead of real women: Real life is a lot suckier than outrageous fantasy life. And with the Friends, at least there's no chance they're gong to shit on you (Schwimmer not included). So yeah, I understand a little WHY you chicks like Friends so much. I mean, I don't REALLY, but I kinda get it.
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