Sure, but in most games the male friends are usually the creppy perverts, which constantly drag the MC in dumb crap because of their stupidity and the MC has rarely a choice to say 'fuck off'...or in short, most off them annoy me after 5 min to a point i wanna punch them in the face.
There are a devs which make good male friends, but they are rare. Simon isn't great either, just so-so, but i don't dislike him so far.