Most women seem to regard all of their SO's male friends as idiots.
I was reflecting on this...
Well, I was reflecting on this after covering for a friend to his wife. I was thinking to myself: "Man, she must really think I'm an idiot because I'm always taking the blame for the dumb things he does." (It goes both ways.)
The man law is that if your friend does something stupid, you take the blame with the SO so that he does not get "punished".
There an old joke about a woman that stays out all night and doesn't come home. The next morning, the husband calls the wife's female friends and each tells him that she left the bar with some other guy.
The next weekend, the man stays out all night and doesn't come home. The next morning, the wife calls the husband's male friends and each tells her that he is on the friend's couch, passed out right now...
So it's not that men have stupid friends, it's that they take the blame for each other's stupidity.