You can do a mix of 2) and 3), and tell her she's got two minutes to complain about her day, but after that you're going to have fun.

FYI, I personally don’t mind a bit of drama as it keeps shit exciting (I often do/say shit just to illicit a fire for the fun of putting it out ahah)

1. def not
2. not really unless they are good friends or girls you regularly bang
3. not really.

How about this:

Start off with "Yeah, that sucks". Not sympathetic, not fixing it, but the simple observation.

Follow up with "We've all got shit going on in our lives".

And then "Look, I'm trying to be nice here, but the point is that I don't complain to you about my problems....... let's chill out and have fun together".

Failing that, ditch her. Women are spoiled and love to whine. They love to have men fix their problems, and then whine about that too. But you don't need negative shit, so tell her to stop it.

Somewhat empathetic but usually use their shit to quickly springboard into something actually interesting for both of us. Basically you reframe the conversation.

Women need to vent about their day,etc.

What do you do?

put limits on it, I let her vent for 10 minutes or so, just listen, maybe ask a question, be on her side, oh your boss is a jerk,etc. blah blah

then, change the topic, let's go to the gym, go for a bike ride, walk, make me a sammich?

Or , give her a slap in the ass, pull her in for a good 10 second long kiss, pull the back of her head/hair for emphasis. Has an amazing effect on them.

If nothing works, find something to do, somewhere to go, you remove attention.

If she bitches about that, you explain that, babe, you had a bad day, I get it, let's move on, let's not ruin the night, and don't ruin my night, got it?

Women tend to not listen to advice, I just ask them deep probing questions so that they have to answer it themselves. They're only gonna listen to themselves anyway unless they have a track record of following your advice

I just have my wife call her friends, mom, cousins, etc. I've seen how women do therapy and talk to one another and they just talk about feelings, the subject rarely has anything to do with the convo. She doesn't realize you're male and different so she's talking to you like you're a woman. I mean you can do it like others mentioned by talking about your feelings in a different context by reframing it but then you'll be setting yourself up to be her girlfriend.