How do you do male bonding?
Euhm, I guess it would be easiest by example.
You just go to someplace related to your hobby,
be it a LAN-party, a bar, a gamingstore, ... and look around. Lan-parties around here have a social aspect too since a few years, not just sitting in front of a screen. A bar is always easy, just pick a bar that caters to your kind of people (you'd have to figure out what people you want to socialise with) and have a talk about anything with a person or a group.
Could be as silly as a girl that passes by and stumbles and you make a comment about it.
You just kinda keep semi-talking, that's important
hmm, I just realised that's a big part of it, developping semi-talk. You have to be able to keep talking in general, about any kind of thing relevant to the place (in case of a gaming store) or in a bar it can be anything at all.
Afterwards, you don't agree to meet eachother there the next week at the same hour or nothing, you just go again and if you see them there again, you talk some more.
But what is most important, in general you don't share too many specifics or nothing.
Me, I don't like sports, know crap about cars and am not interested in politics.
However, I have several groups of friends, and I can talk to each of them about alot of other things, be it books, games, discuss things about physics or chemistry, or general everyday things.
I think my most important sentence bears repeating:
go somewhere that relates to your hobby and has a social aspect too it as well.
Like poetry, go to a gathering
Like music, go to a concert
Like photography/videography, go to a a festival, ...
And just actively participate, drop a comment here and there, pick in on a conversation, ...
But there are very few men I know that actually are good listeners, you're gonna have to have a little bit of luck to find that. Most men need a great level of comfort around somebody to want to be an active listener about all kinds of details of another person's life.
How I met some of my best friends?
1 Because he lived really close by,
1 Because of regular trips to the movies
1 Because of the fact that we played the same computergames and happened to meet in school
1 Because of a wanting to play roleplaying games, and I just looked up a list on the Internet and just went to the games a few times first.
Really, anything that has you meeting and/or working actively with people will have you bonding... Just don't think that male bonding is so profound or anything. In the end, it's still somewhat shallow
edit: sorry it got so long