34 Things Most Men Fail To Grasp, Yet Every Woman Knows

I as a growing teen don't want sex to be the forefront of my thoughts. I just really want to be a genuine friend, but sometimes I can't help but feel girls shy away from me for this very reason, assuming all I want is sex. I want to have 'girl' friends, and just leave it at that.

YES, exactly. The "friend zone" does not exist, it's a pathetic excuse for demeaning women who just want friends. It makes my blood boil

Also, the "he's just being polite" thing, can be seen often, but "she's just being polite"? Nooooo.... She's flirting, obviously, of course, what....

Imagine the betrayal of believing in a friendship only to find out all the other person wants is sex.

If you read older literature and even watch old movies, you will see that it was standard, at least among the upper class for men and women to be friends without their being anything sexual involved. In fast, a woman or man could be friends with someone of the opposite sex, even if they were married, and this was not out of the ordinary.

Hate to burst this bubble, but women can be placed in the friendzone as well.

I genuinely am at a loss to connect 'friend zone' and 'entitled to sex' for basic decency and want to know. I feel like people are making a leap I cannot see. As I understand it, the friend zone is when a woman becomes comfortable and mellow (as oppose to intrigued and curious) with a man and therefore is rendered incapable of seeing him in a sexual/romantic way from that point on. I have only experienced the term being used in a cautionary way such as "Hit on her quickly, before you end up in the friend zone". I get the impression other people use it another way? Possibly? ...Help?

No it doesn’t. What kind of one sided fckng inference is that….

No it doesn’t. Learn to make better conclusions. You’re just indoctrinated, stop watching so much tv

only to the idiots who think the friendzone is a punishment. The friendzone is unrequited interest and just like any loss of something you really wanted to go a different way sometimes there is a mourning period before you accept it. I have been on both sides of the friendzone and when I'm in it I remind myself that MY feelings are not their responsibility. When I'm on the outside however I am conscientious about their mourning. It's not that much different than being friends with someone you broke up with. Some people can handle it and some people can't but the term itself is not about entitlement at all. The people who can't handle it shouldn't be the primary representative for the very real situation

It does not mean entitlement. It means the woman knows he wants more and keeps him around because he is useful for other purposes.

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The friend zone is the place where boys are parked that are the comforting friend, the go to guy when the s**t is up, the guy you call when you need some encouraging words, but never the guy you take to parties, introduce to your friends or the guy that's good enough to love. The friend zone has nothing to do with guys thinking they are entitled to sex. Sorry....

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i don't think you understand what the concept of a friend zone actually is or what it means. it has nothing to do with men thinking they're entitled to sex. absolutely nothing to do with that at all. "friend zone" refers to the act of a woman rejecting a man who is attempting to court them. it does not mean that the men believe they are entitled to sex. it simply means they have been rejected and are now in the dreaded "friend zone". It doesn't mean that they actually expect sex. I don't even know why I am trying to break this down for you. You have to be 12 and have autism to not understand this

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What women don't understand about the "friend zone" is that it has nothing to do with sex, it's about desirability. When a women "friend zones" a man she's basically telling him he isn't good enough, which is a blow to his self-esteem and self-image.

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The problem with the friendzone is not that we expect sex because we are friends with you, it's that you know we want more but you string us along because it's nice to have a slave around. If you keep telling yourselves that women mature faster, why don't you do the mature thing and cut the cord, since you know you won't give us what we want?

He sounds like a complete idiot. Anyone who thinks you are hitting on them because you used emojis has a screw loose.

What’s worse is when they get that idea about you when you’re at work and HAVE to be nice to people because it’s part of your job! Years ago I worked in resort condo rentals, and ended up having to dodge a stalker—-every few months for 3 years until he found out I got married—-because I had to be nice to customers.

I was having this discussion with my wife yesterday. She is also sick of people assuming friendliness was due to sexual interest. It turned out the one thing she had never considered was that many men are entirely starved of casual friendliness in a way women much less commonly are. So when, on occasion, a woman is kind to them, they assume their must be a reason. It doesn't change the effect on you, but it does perhaps lend a reason to be more sympathetic in some cases, rather than casting all such men as egotists.

lol the only people in this entire page who are butthurt are batshit third wave psychos like you valerie. the rest of us are just laughing at how crazy and dumb you are

lmao and the triggered misandrist psycho lauren caswell even downvoted this comment even though it wasn't even remotely hostile and actually pointing out a basic observation that you can verify with a cursory google search. what an absolute unhinged psychopath

nonsense. I've been married ten years, and together another 9/10 before that. I've always had male platonic friends. always. my husband has never had a worry that my platonic friends are more than that, regardless of what shape their underbits are. I've even had platonic male friends who I am actively attracted to. but I am in a long term relationship. and some of them have been too, and a significant one was gay and engaged. I would joke with him about how I was attracted to him, but he had his man, and I had mine, and that's fine. nothing was ever going to come of it, and in a lot of ways we were like a brother and sister. very affectionate together, and while he was very easy on the eye, he's too young for me, and not interested in women, and I'm in a very happy long term relationship. still nice to look at though.

careful, if you bring up ladder theory they're probably just censor all your posts for upsetting their narrative

Funny how men think being friends with women is some kind of punishment

Translation: 'Not attracted to you'. Is that clearer? After all, women didn't invent that term - men did.