Hmm, agreed that there are platonic m-f friendships - few of them are played as strong as the m-m friendships (there's definitely more John-Rodney than Teyla-anyone, and I think there's more Ronon-John than Ronon-Teyla...) But then there's more m-f friendships than f-f friendship, definitely, so, yeah, SGA can do men and women being friends.

But friends aren't romantic, ever; there's this huge line drawn between friendship and romance. And friendship usually comes out on top - see "The Shrine" - as the more significant relationship, which maybe is why the writers are so bad at romance, because they don't actually think romance is that important? As long as you're getting sex, who cares if there's a real relationship there? Something like that? Hmm...