Opinion of parents forbidding their teenage sons from having female friends

[Mazda]

From when I was 13 to when I was 18, my mother forbade me from having female friends. Is this a freedom rule or a horrible rule?

If you don't mind, is your mother muslim? They typically rule it!

Nope, she's a secular Jew.

Was it Shiksa girls your mum was mainly worried about?

Nope. She just thought I would say the wrong thing to a girl and that the resulting fallout would cause me to commit suicide. She used stories about "cyberbullying" to justify her actions.

Out of interest, have you spoken to a woman at any point since you turned 18, and how did it go?