“Friend zone” was probably a fairly innocuous term at some point or another, merely meant to describe the process of one party insisting on a platonic relationship when the other party wants it to be something more. As of late, the term has become the calling card of a certain type of Internet inhabitant, usually male, who complains about being forever alone, blames women for all the problems and feels somewhat entitled to sex with said women, and may or may not have a gross neckbeard. You may have also seen this person on the Internet commenting on various social media sites, vociferously defending Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar hosting job. The term “friend zone” has also become a key enabling buzzword for awful pickup artist reality shows, web series’ about convention speed dating and other markers of this time and place in which we live.
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