WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY THE WORD "FRIEND ZONE"
In popular culture, the friend zone
is a situation in which one member of a friendship wishes to enter into
a romantic or sexual relationship, while the other does not.[1] It is generally considered to be an undesirable situation for the rejected person.The sense of zone is one of being stuck in an unwanted and
distant relationship. The rejected person is said to have been put "in"
the object of their affection's "friend zone". The concept of the friend
zone has been criticized as misogynistic,
because of a belief that the concept implies an expectation that women
should have sex with men in whom they have no interest, simply because
the men were nice to them.[3][4] This is closely associated with so-called "nice guy syndrome".
The term friendzone can be verbified, as in the sentence "So, she's friendzoned you."[5]
Although the term is apparently gender-neutral, friend zone is often
used to describe a situation in a male-female relationship in which the
male is in the friend zone and the female is the object of his
unrequited desire.[6] The person who does the friendzoning is referred to as the friendzoner, whereas the person who gets friendzoned is called the friend-zonee.[7]
The term "friend zone" is sometimes used in pick up artist (PUA) literature, where it forms part of PUA theories about female sexual attraction to males.
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