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You've probably heard of the “friend zone” before. If you’re a woman, chances are you may have even been accused of it. Popularized in TV and media, the friend zone refers to a situation in which one member of a friendship, most often male, wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship, while the other one doesn’t. Most importantly, though, it makes little sense.
There are a whole bunch of myths surfing around this concept, like sexual entitlement, assuming heterosexuality, and believing that platonic relationships are somehow lesser than romantic ones. But people on social media have armed themselves with a sense of humor and taken it to the joke level to make their point.
The result is a hilarious compilation of funny tweets and jokes about the FZ that should make anyone rethink the logic behind it.
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Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Mostly it's more like "I lust for you and you won't return my lust, so it's now your fault."
KLARK BUENAVISTA 5 years ago
I think its just u dont like me da way i like you and u like me as a friend and thats friendzoning
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elfin 5 years ago
Do these guys have any male persons they are friends with? And if so are these male friends required to have sex with them because just being in the friend zone hurts?
KLARK BUENAVISTA 5 years ago
Friendzone is when a girl or a guy doesn't like you the way you like them but they only like you as a friend
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Arshveer Mann 5 years ago
I feel like this is a bit stereotypical, so you've personally experienced multiple men ask you out and then insult you?
The term "friend zone," coined in a 1994 episode of Friends where Joey refers to a lovelorn Ross as the “mayor of the friend zone,” has become so deeply embedded in our society and popular culture that we almost never question it. Many articles put the friend zone into their regular focus, writing on how to avoid it and what to do if you’re being friend-zoned.
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Logan Hunter 5 years ago
Sex is not a payment that you get for doing one thing. I’m 14 and I know this
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Well then you’re smarter than the president little dude
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🌺🍍🌼🌻🌼🍍🌺 5 years ago (edited)
It scares me that, we, so called "kids" know that sex is not meant to be payment for anything, but adults in society don't. also, for real, of course we're smart, we're f*****g highschoolers. We may not techniacally be adults yet, but we sure as hell act better and more mature than most of them. Not every teenager is some bumbling druggie idiot who hates their parents. stop acting so surprised that we know s**t. (and thanks to everyone being kind and supportive, sorry, went on a rant for a second)
Fred Burrows 5 years ago
But I helped you move when you broke up and gave your car a jump while it was raining at night during the football game ?
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Lisa Chambers 5 years ago
or "I was nice because I have enough self respect not to be an absolute s**t to everyone"?
The Coated Dev 5 years ago
It makes me sad that people hate on me for trying to say that some men aren't like that, you can't just associate all men and call them garbage. Some dudes are chill, just stop looking at the ones that aren't chill.
person (i think) 5 years ago
We all know that "most men are not like this." But, enough are like this that most of us are acutely aware of these self entitled assholes.
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Justine Nicole 5 years ago
Wow. Is it considered leading a guy on when you engage in friendly conversation with them, even become friends and have him over sometimes, and sometimes he offers to help you fix things and you allow him to? Women who are innocently nice to men, talk to them, become friends with them, accept help, shouldn't be accused of wanting attention or emotional benefits. It's called being a good friend. Something that some men don’t think is a real thing that happens between a man and a woman. These men are usually "nice guys" haha. It's not our fault that you decide we must want you if we are giving you our time, and then when you realize we just want to be friends get all angry and offended for us "wasting your time". Cool dude, way to be a genuinely good human. Maybe stop assuming any woman who is nice to you owes you sex now and is a b*tch if they don’t.
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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
I've been really "nice" to you, platonic relationships don't count, I helped you move once and getting in your pants is the ultimate end goal of every interaction we've ever had. You can't say "good morning" to me every day and then don't let me fondle you, you cruel deceptive cold hearted b**ch.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 4 years ago
that's not true at all. we just don't like the guys that act like THAT. we like people who are genuinely pleasant people and nice to be around. trust me, the people who complain that they're a "nice guy" or that women only like "bad boys" we KNOW those aren't the ones that are actually likeable, and they're nothing like nice, no matter how much they claim it
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Sang Fe 4 years ago
Stop pretending to be a friend and make it clear that you do nothing for anyone unless you get cash or ass.
Load More Replies...But when men refer to the term "friend zone," they are explicitly aiming at women to show how much they’ve hurt their feelings. These who are aware of the fact that the friend zone is indeed a flawed concept criticize it for taking women’s agency out of the picture by making the relationship transactional. If a man is being nice to a woman, it suggests that this feature alone should be enough to make the woman want to pursue their relationship in a romantic direction.
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miten sasmita 5 years ago
Yep. I had a huge crush for my male friend back then. We were pretty close, have common interests, joined the same community, spent lots of time together, even went to movies and restaurants together. But when I said I wanna be his gf he flatly said no. That was brutal but I respected his choice and withdrawn myself. He was being nice to me doesn't mean he likes me back. Why is it so hard for some men to understand this.
WILLIAM FAULK 5 years ago
know, boys on the other hand, don't, kid at chool asks me out (boy) when my hair was a little longer than usual. Me: "hell no!' boy: "come on please?" I cut my heair that day, and I was never the same.....
Paul Mitchell 5 years ago
Not totally true. Quite a few female teachers have been prosecuted for having sex with their students recently.
Hypatia Vasilios 4 years ago
It's also because they simply don't feel entitled to have the use of men's bodies just because they're nice to them.
jimmy pop 4 years ago
Uh ... I've made different experiences more than once. Mostly with young women, who I just found not emotionally mature enough for me to be of any interest. Although they've usually always accepted it at one point and none of them became offensive or angry, I've heard complaints and tried persuasions. I guess it's just very rare because men don't often put women in the "friendzone". Also, I never understood what's so bad about it, what's wrong with having friends? When I get to know people, I always try to be open and just see where it goes instead of having this forced goal of something romantical and then being disappointed when it doesn't work out.
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chi-wei shen 5 years ago
The friend zone only exists in the minds of men who want more from a specific woman, but cannot get it. The majority of men simply have female friends without any romantic interests.
Marnie 5 years ago
My now ex-husband said that no guy was friends with a woman he was not atracted to. I pondered that and it upset me for quite a while, because I'd had a number of guy friends I considered close friends. I didn't mind if they felt a little attraction. What bothered me was the thought they wouldn't have been friends with me if they HADN'T felt some attraction. Well, my ex turned out to be someone who could not conceive of women as people. He hid it well. He insisted that I wanted to be romantic and was mad at him for not being romantic. I don't have a romantic bone in my body and was never mad at him about that. He had this picture of "woman" in his head, and he would not let me interfere with that.
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Justine Nicole 5 years ago
Yeah I can't imagine a woman talking about her male friend and complaining she's in the "friend zone". Everyone in life should be allowed to have friends of either sex and not be shamed for it.
E Menendez 5 years ago (edited)
I have had a lot of men tell me it is not possible for them to just be friends with a woman. If they are not a co-worker or the significant other of a male friend, then if they are hanging around her as a friend it is because they are hoping for more. Like an alarmingly high amount of men have told me this. As a woman, I am very concerned by this.
Ruth Mayfly 5 years ago
This guy I couldn't escape creeped at me for a year and asked me out or suggested sex at least half a dozen times. The last time I rejected him he said "You mean you just think we should be FRIENDS" in the nastiest tone of voice and I got to tell him that I didn't think of him as a friend. It felt great, and he looked so deflated (he'd been using our 'friendship' as leverage to be far more touchy than I was comfortable with)
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Marina 5 years ago (edited)
I feel like the boy who wrote this could also be okay. Just because he used the friend zone word it doesn't mean he's a bad guy and we must admit that some girls just don't know how to choose well for themselves. That said, I don't mean to imply that guys getting angry at women for getting friendzoned are right
Aaron Yenser 5 years ago
Yeah, just because you've been "friendzoned" it doesn't mean you are a terrible guy, my gal friends get friendzoned, its upsetting when you think you've been kind and considerate and get turned down.
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Soodney 5 years ago
Well, "Nice guys" (The real ones, not the fake ones,) Don't proclaim out to the world that they'll treat you like a queen, they just treat you like a decent human and won't try to get in your pants. this is blatently clear to me at age 13, while some people don't accept that.
Azziza 5 years ago
Wow, I actually saw a facebook post of this exact meme and a "nice guy" came in just blissfully unaware he was acting just like the meme! It was incredible! Right down to calling women "whores". Nice-Guy-R...58-png.jpg 
Birma Gustafsson 5 years ago
I feel that boy is not her friend but wants to f**k her. Not a nice guy but a creep.
Chris Challis 4 years ago
he may be an asshole in your view because you are jealous and resentful. Most sane // women like a nice guy and he is attractive to her, you are just not..//
Lena Flising 4 years ago
Perhaps he ought to look for more mature women, who are searching for a long-time partner.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 4 years ago
well, that won't happen until he grows out of this stupid, childish, entitled attitude. manchild still believes that the friend zone exists.
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By 2020, we all should be aware that a woman has a right to say "no" whenever and to whoever she feels the need to. And while being a good friend is surely awesome, it doesn’t allow anyone to expect anything concrete in return. After all, even if being rejected can be truly dreadful, it can’t be demonized at the expense of a woman.
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Philler Space 5 years ago
True friendships are few and far between in this crapsack world, so Dudes, pay attention: if this amazing person, who is so important to your life, who feels safe and comfortable enough around you to be her true self, and who has already been willing to share so much of her time with you, says she wants you as her friend...That is not her insulting you. That is a goddamned honor she is bestowing onto you. Treat it as such.
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Lisa Chambers 5 years ago
lol reminds me of the black knight. Cut off the leg, he exclaims that didnt hurt and still challenges the person to a fight. sad.
Lena Flising 4 years ago
The old "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will murder them".
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Aspen Anderson 5 years ago
Honestly this is why I struggle having male friends. Every time I get close enough to a guy to be my true self, he develops a crush. I turn him down, tell him I value his friendship but have no romantic feelings, and he fades away no matter how hard I try to stay friends. The whole friendship was fake. It's so frustrating.
Paul Mitchell 5 years ago
I have heard it said that men can only be friends with other men for this reason. I'm not sure how true it is. I have friends who are female who I am not attracted to sexually at all. It's not that they were unattractive, they were just sexually unattractive to me.
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Brian Stanton 5 years ago
Doesnt sex include a whole person? Wouldnt the point be to limit to your whole?
Justine Nicole 5 years ago
LOL. They're not mutually exclusive, and neither is valuing someone as a whole person and not wanting to f**k them. It is possible to consider someone you value as a whole person as a friend. It's not women's fault that guys they become friends with are assuming and wanting more and aren't interested in "just" being a friend... god forbid we are honest about not wanting to pursue a relationship in order to not lead them on if that's what they're expecting for no reason, then we are a b*tch "friendzoning" them. Many women are not expecting any guy who is nice to them to f*ck them, and don't want to f*ck any guy who is nice to them. many guys expect exactly that, that if a woman is nice and talks to them regularly they are interested. Not our problem that you make unrealistic expectations for no reason whatsoever and get upset when they are not met.
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Logan Hunter 5 years ago
Had a school friend like that, followed me everywhere and couldn’t take the signal the relationship was done
TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago
I had someone ask me out at over 10 times and couldn't take the hint that I didn't want to be with them
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The Coated Dev 5 years ago
I haven't even met a single person like that but I dunno most of the girls that like me are chill when I friend zone them.
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Emily Ashcraft 5 years ago
THIS! this is a great point! our boundaries are there to give us comfortable experiences, not to see how many times they will be crossed.
Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago (edited)
Oh so funny shows like "How I met your Mother" taught generations of (mostly) men that NO really means work harder at inserting yourself into her life and she'll eventually come around and love you for who you are. It's apparently not stalking if it's true love.
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Katherine Boag 5 years ago
I mean someone you regularly have casual sex with is called FRIENDS with benefits for a reason
Felix Seestrand 5 years ago
So+instead+you’re+saying+that+all+girls+want+to+have+sex+with+all+of+their+friends?+:P
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The Coated Dev 5 years ago (edited)
That's kinda mean. There are lots of men out there who are respectable and chill, so stop focusing on these dudes
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Logan Hunter 5 years ago
Guilt tripping is really not a good thing to do in a relationship in my view
Phil Boswell 5 years ago
Unless it's for stealing biscuits, then it's totally fine…
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HighNMightyBigshot 1 year ago
Naahhhh, don’t feel guilty at all…not one little bit! I do give them a WTF look though.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
It's a common sarcastic expression Here, she's a local comedian (and v funny I think she did the uncanny impersonation of Jacinda Ardern)
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The Coated Dev 5 years ago
Yeah but have you thought about the guys who don't?
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The Coated Dev 5 years ago
Yeah but most men aren't actually like that you just talk about the one's who are.
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Logan Hunter 5 years ago
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Neva Nevičica 5 years ago
Don't do it. They will start having stepson-themed movie plots in their minds.
Leah Woodard 5 years ago
Dude, if they're complaining about being 'friendzoned', they were already having those impossible movie plots play out in their heads...
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The Coated Dev 5 years ago
Is it me or do women complain a lot about friend zoning, like I know it can be annoying but can you focus on the men who are chill?
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Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Real kindness is doing something because it’s the right and kind thing to do. Fake kindness to get sex, well, they might as well be the d***s they are.
Lisa Chambers 5 years ago
It isnt even kindness. How a woman treats you isnt even about you, until you make it about you.
Fred Burrows 5 years ago
No , but some homemade cookies would be nice after helping her paint her apartment and pet sitting her psychotic cat for a week .
RATSMACKER 5 years ago
half of the posts are about how they don’t want to be your friend. calm down buddy
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Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Michal getting all creepy like he's about to kidnap some chick, amputate all her limbs so she can't escape, and keep her on a shrine-like plinth so he can cry at her while screaming "SEE EVERYTHING I DO FOR YOU??? WHY AREN'T YOU GRATEFUL???"
CatWoman312 5 years ago
And you come on way too strong, you are very insecure, you have a sense of entitlement, and you’re clingy
RATSMACKER 5 years ago
lmaoo calm down michal, don’t you have some women to go make uncomfortable or something?
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chi-wei shen 5 years ago
The friend zone is a place in the mind of men who want to have sex but do not want to have female friends. Men with female friends who do not have romantic interests do not know the place called friend zone.
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
Question that doesn't really have to do with the post-Why do we never say entitled and mean they are actually entitled to something? Everyone uses it as "they feel entitled" not "they are entitled."
Damon Gates 5 years ago
True entitlements are pretty few and far between. There are often lists of qualifications that must be met before anyone is "entitled" to just about anything. Much of today's problems are due to staunch believes in illusory entitlements.
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Carole Deem 5 years ago
read this along time ago, the offers of help you dare not accept for fear of contracting a sexual debt .
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Logan Hunter 5 years ago
Ok then I’m just hearing Pokémon telling me “ this is not the time for that”
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Aww thanks doesn’t mean friend zone I say they to my husband sometimes. Some of these are silly assumptions
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🌺🍍🌼🌻🌼🍍🌺 5 years ago
it's ironic. if it wasn't she wouldnt post something like this. :)
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Lena Flising 4 years ago
How can it be a nightmare to have a woman friend? Friendships can last longer than relationships, and the longest romantic relationships usually exist between friends who become partners. Actual friends, that is; friends who are kind because the other person needs kindness, not because you need a n*b rub.
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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
So long as they have a derogatory category for us it's apparently fine. Man/woman: leader/bossy, stud/slut, level headed/frigid. Apparently English does have genders for some words
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Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
That’s taking things a little too far, no one deserves no good snacks
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
No-let them have formerly good snacks, like-WET CHEETOS! MWAHAHAHA! I know, I'm a monster.
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Albert 5 years ago
I don't know why, but titles of BP articles tend to change overtime. Maybe due to public opinion? As I write this, the title of this article is '36 Jokes About The “Friend Zone” That Show How Absurd It Is'. What I don't understand is, why BP thinks these are all 'jokes'. Granted, some of them are funny, but to me a lot of these comments seem to be just plain common sense.
Rissie 5 years ago
The thing is, many people don't consider it common sense and if you ever had the pleasure of meeting them and becoming the center of their fantasy you get why it's a good thing to explicitly put it down in words.
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Ugh, seriously some people read into things too much. Friend zoned (to me at least) does not mean someone OWES another any type of relationship. Friend zoned is when one party wants more than the other, so they offer friendship instead. And if the person who wants more can’t deal with just a friendship then bye bye. I will not stop using the term friend zone. It’s just ridiculous, they make out that all men can’t take no for an answer, whilst some men don’t most men do. downvote me all you want coz I don’t care.
H Edwards 5 years ago
It's something that girls are made to feel guilty about, though. It's happened to me and to many women I know, even as we get older and should be able to withstand this bullshit. Pressure to date somebody because he's ''such a nice guy'' (not just from him, he enlists his friends to help) then sulking and guilt-tripping. And we are the bitch who wouldn't give the nice guy a chance and then gets criticized for whoever she does choose to date. Ugh, indeed.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
No one gets "friendzoned", you decide yourself if you want to be friends with someone. Sexist little pr!cks invented the friendzone as a place where sexually frustraded guys hang out, waiting for a girl who wants to have sex with them. And obviously to those incels the girl is the evil genius here....
John Montgomery 5 years ago
Why did I expect someone adapt the twilight zone intro. Imagine, if you will a supposedly adult male with so low a maturity, he thinks an appropriate response to rejection is name calling. You are entering: The friend Zone.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Friends good. Hubby was a friend two years before he and I went on a date, and we're now 30 years together. Friends from 1980s, still friends. Friendship is not a prelude to sex. It's what lasts. Friendship.
E Menendez 5 years ago (edited)
Conversly, if a man has sex with a woman, he does not owe her a romantic relationship. I have seen the other side of this too. Basically - men need to know women don't owe them sex for hanging out and doing things together and women need to know men don't owe them a romantic relationship or to hang out and do things together if they have sex.
WILLIAM FAULK 5 years ago
Man, when I was in 5th grade, there was a really cute girl, she obviously liked me, same back. and yet, I never asked her out. which sucks, because next year, she moved, that was the last I hear of her, I was freakin sad on the inside. but then, I don't have to get teased for liking a nerd. But alot of kids this generation are d**ks.
person (i think) 5 years ago
Hon, a lot of kids in every generation are d**ks. :(
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Jonathan Armstrong 5 years ago
Y'all I thought the friend zone was when it was your problem and not the problem of the person you like. Also I hate the idea that liking somebody automatically means sex. Why can't it mean somebody who you would like to spend your life with and maybe start a family? Why focus on the process of starting a family rather than the result of starting a family? I hope what I'm saying makes sense
.gas. 5 years ago
To me, the "friend zone" happens when one person or the other gives signs they might be interested, or knows the other one is and doesn't say anything. I've been in the friend zone, I've had people in the friend zone, and what I've learned is that open communication is key. "I'm sorry, I'm not interested in you that way." Simple. No drama, and everyone's on the same page.
Just saying 5 years ago
My husband was in the friend zone for about 8 years as I just didn't fancy him. He eventually moved out of the friend zone, not by being creepy, annoying and guilt trippy, but by being a good friend and me growing up a bit and realising his true worth.
Albert 5 years ago
I don't know why, but titles of BP articles tend to change overtime. Maybe due to public opinion? As I write this, the title of this article is '36 Jokes About The “Friend Zone” That Show How Absurd It Is'. What I don't understand is, why BP thinks these are all 'jokes'. Granted, some of them are funny, but to me a lot of these comments seem to be just plain common sense.
Rissie 5 years ago
The thing is, many people don't consider it common sense and if you ever had the pleasure of meeting them and becoming the center of their fantasy you get why it's a good thing to explicitly put it down in words.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Ugh, seriously some people read into things too much. Friend zoned (to me at least) does not mean someone OWES another any type of relationship. Friend zoned is when one party wants more than the other, so they offer friendship instead. And if the person who wants more can’t deal with just a friendship then bye bye. I will not stop using the term friend zone. It’s just ridiculous, they make out that all men can’t take no for an answer, whilst some men don’t most men do. downvote me all you want coz I don’t care.
H Edwards 5 years ago
It's something that girls are made to feel guilty about, though. It's happened to me and to many women I know, even as we get older and should be able to withstand this bullshit. Pressure to date somebody because he's ''such a nice guy'' (not just from him, he enlists his friends to help) then sulking and guilt-tripping. And we are the bitch who wouldn't give the nice guy a chance and then gets criticized for whoever she does choose to date. Ugh, indeed.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
No one gets "friendzoned", you decide yourself if you want to be friends with someone. Sexist little pr!cks invented the friendzone as a place where sexually frustraded guys hang out, waiting for a girl who wants to have sex with them. And obviously to those incels the girl is the evil genius here....
John Montgomery 5 years ago
Why did I expect someone adapt the twilight zone intro. Imagine, if you will a supposedly adult male with so low a maturity, he thinks an appropriate response to rejection is name calling. You are entering: The friend Zone.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Friends good. Hubby was a friend two years before he and I went on a date, and we're now 30 years together. Friends from 1980s, still friends. Friendship is not a prelude to sex. It's what lasts. Friendship.
E Menendez 5 years ago (edited)
Conversly, if a man has sex with a woman, he does not owe her a romantic relationship. I have seen the other side of this too. Basically - men need to know women don't owe them sex for hanging out and doing things together and women need to know men don't owe them a romantic relationship or to hang out and do things together if they have sex.
WILLIAM FAULK 5 years ago
Man, when I was in 5th grade, there was a really cute girl, she obviously liked me, same back. and yet, I never asked her out. which sucks, because next year, she moved, that was the last I hear of her, I was freakin sad on the inside. but then, I don't have to get teased for liking a nerd. But alot of kids this generation are d**ks.
person (i think) 5 years ago
Hon, a lot of kids in every generation are d**ks. :(
Load More Replies... Jonathan Armstrong 5 years ago
Y'all I thought the friend zone was when it was your problem and not the problem of the person you like. Also I hate the idea that liking somebody automatically means sex. Why can't it mean somebody who you would like to spend your life with and maybe start a family? Why focus on the process of starting a family rather than the result of starting a family? I hope what I'm saying makes sense
.gas. 5 years ago
To me, the "friend zone" happens when one person or the other gives signs they might be interested, or knows the other one is and doesn't say anything. I've been in the friend zone, I've had people in the friend zone, and what I've learned is that open communication is key. "I'm sorry, I'm not interested in you that way." Simple. No drama, and everyone's on the same page.
Just saying 5 years ago
My husband was in the friend zone for about 8 years as I just didn't fancy him. He eventually moved out of the friend zone, not by being creepy, annoying and guilt trippy, but by being a good friend and me growing up a bit and realising his true worth.
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