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It... depends. Not as normalized as they should be, and a lot less emotional support than you'd expect.
It also depends on which circles you run in. Some of my friends I will see at least once a month and we talk about each other's problems from time to time. A big factor is whether you're in shared hobbies and whether those hobbies push people to grow and improve
There is nothing non-normalized about male friendships. "Normalizing" means you are making something which has a social stigma not have that social stigma. There is no social stigma against men having friends.
Like I said, depends on the friendship and the environment. If two friends get too close, they may be called faggots, or get jokes about them being gay for each other (meant to be deeply insulting because homophobia, yay). Maybe it's just the fact that I live in the southeast US. I don't know whether you're a man or not, also just my personal experience.
It doesn't. There is literally no where in the world where there is a stigma against men having male friends.