OP asks "What's so bad about the friendzone lol?" in a sub for stupid questions then acts dense in replies, thread gets 9,000 upvotes of Redditor copium

1  2021-05-03 by JanetYellensFuckboy

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30 comments

67  Lysis10 2021-05-03

lololol I saw the thread and thought "oh dear, this dude is r-slurred." Don't forget the "having friends is great" comment too. You know the dude will enjoy a nice night of video games as his wife goes out with her chad boyfriend.

42  TheHeroReditDeserves 2021-05-03

"oh dear, this dude is r-slurred."

Either that or a bait god

7  -M-o-X- 2021-05-03

it has to be a troll

please god

1  [deleted] 2021-05-03

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18  Tagesausbruch 2021-05-03

I can't help but feel bad because he seems like he can't be picky when it comes to friends.

17  Woolgun 2021-05-03

Oh, I know man. I'm 26M, virgin, have never been in relationship and have dated only one person, so I definitely can relate. For me personally it's bitterness and self-hatred for allowing myself to get to this point that it's making it harder to date, but I started meditating and it really helped me to control my thoughts. So there are solutions :)

Pretty much. This is about relationships but honestly the two often go hand in hand, and he's probably thinking that even gaining a friend is a win. I do feel kinda bad for him but making bad threads on Reddit won't solve his problems.

2  tiptopkitkat 2021-05-03

So how many have you friendzoned?

15  Lysis10 2021-05-03

lmao oh god, I think all women friendzone at least one man in their life. It's not always malicious or trying to use someone. If there is no attraction, it's just not there. Don't think I've ever played the "maybe one day" though. I get uncomfortable if it happens so I tend to distance myself. Sometimes you don't realize the other person has feelings so it's unintentional.

9  tiptopkitkat 2021-05-03

it is much better that way.

One of the things people never discuss is when you have been friends for a long time and suddenly realize you are in love, you are kind of fucked then.

Also men will never fall in love with their female fuck buddies, but they will with their female friends.

But women will fall in love with their fuck buddies all the time and then bitch about how they were in a toxic relationship.

6  Zozbot 2021-05-03

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3  Zozbot 2021-05-03

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2  Zozbot 2021-05-03

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1  tiptopkitkat 2021-05-03

z-dubs

1  [deleted] 2021-05-03

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53  JanetYellensFuckboy 2021-05-03

This was removed lol

This is kind of the stupid, girly, manipulative answer to this that always rubs people off as disingenuous. The same way one person isn’t entitled to a relationship, the other person is not entitled to friendship. The friendzone has a few different applications in terms of how the phrase is used.

2 people start hanging out, 1 of them likes the other and isn’t direct about it, probably because they can tell it isn’t reciprocated. They finally say something, they have a let’s be friends conversation. Can they just be friends? Maybe, but is it worth it to try? After all, the person with feelings seemed to think the other person would come around, what’s to say they don’t still think that? Sounds like a shitty situation built on poor communication, where one person gets what they want and the other does not.

Situation 2: The person with feelings does communicate it early on, and the other person “says” they have feelings, but resists any romantic advances and eventually turns around and says they should just be friends. Did the other person ever like them? Was it all for attention? Did they change their mind? Why would someone want to be friends with someone who misled them?

Situation 3: person likes another person, communicates it clearly. Other person doesn’t like them back and says “let’s just be friends.” The other person actually doesn’t want to be their friend and just says this because they don’t have the courage to actually reject them. Because this happens, it’s constantly in the back of a persons mind, not in just this scenario but in every one of them; “do they actually want to be my friend or are they just being ‘nice’?”

Situation 4: You’ve had a relationship with someone and you break up and agree to just be friends. Often times this happens because one of the parties in the scenario wants to hang onto the other person as a plan B option. This usually starts off innocent without them realizing this is what they’re doing, saying things like “we’re so close I could never not have them in my life.” This typically becomes pretty toxic if the other person is waiting for them to come back around or the one who is stringing the other one along gets jealous when they get a romantic partner. They end up breaking up or distancing themselves at some point anyway, when in reality they would have both been better off with a clean break from the start.

Situation 5: two people who were friends for a long time dated and decided to break up and stay friends. This is the only situation in my experience where being “just friends” actually has a chance at working out. Even then, less than half the time do they actually stay friends.

Let’s be real here, if you actually read this through you more than likely thought the person asking to be friends was a girl and the one who was being rejected was the guy. 75% of the time, a girl friendzones a guy because she likes the attention he gives her and often leads the attention on, but doesn’t want anything to do with the guy. 20% of the time it’s because she doesn’t like the guy anymore and is either too selfish from an attention standpoint to let him go or isn’t mature enough to realize she is hurting him more by keeping him around, when her actual intention may be to spare him pain.

5% is generous, very generous, but it’s around that much of a percentage of how many times people say what you’re saying and actually want a real friendship. Everything else is a “nice girl” tactic used to serve the girl selfishly. If someone doesn’t approach you with the intention of being your friend, the only thing you can do respectably is reject the other person and let them go. Anything else really just implies that you’re a selfish asshole.

Why would a jannie remove this? đŸ€”

64  busslordlowkeybussin 2021-05-03

Giving young men bad women advice is how Reddit moderators procreate. They have to secure their future population somehow.

31  WeWuzKANG5 2021-05-03

Nah I heard the mods create other mods in some place in cali where they give out hormones to future mods for 'free'.

21  Kissingersbitch 2021-05-03

Yeah but we can’t talk about that here đŸ€«

9  WeWuzKANG5 2021-05-03

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4  Can_The_SRDine 2021-05-03

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3  WeWuzKANG5 2021-05-03

Issa too spicy đŸ”„đŸ„”

11  JanetYellensFuckboy 2021-05-03

Actors' careers are started in Hollywood. When people accidentally move to West Hollywood, they get trapped (no pun intended) in the Reddit Jannie pipeline.

25  Lysis10 2021-05-03

lol I'm genuinely confused why this would be deleted.

26  JanetYellensFuckboy 2021-05-03

Jannies (outside of ours 😘) are one of the lowest life forms in existence. They're not even parasites; that would be like not doing it for free.

13  Lysis10 2021-05-03

Our jannies are dainty little flowers. Their jannies are filthy gaymers.

3  Can_The_SRDine 2021-05-03

I'm gonna go copy-paste this over at NC and see what autojanny says about it.

21  tiptopkitkat 2021-05-03

It's a patriarchal, sexist attitude stemming from the ridiculous idea that women can be "bought" by giving them nice things or being nice with the sole intention of manipulating them into having romantic or sexual feelings for them.

Well depending on how costly is that nice thing, I would say it would work on 7 out of 10 women.

9  JanetYellensFuckboy 2021-05-03

Spoken like a person who never took an upper class girl out to "grab drinks," only for her to get four glasses of the most expensive wines on the menu and giving you that puppy face look of "Pick up the bill or don't get laid. You decide." Aka: a Redditor

1  Shubard75 2021-05-03

How many guys have you done that to?

13  SnapshillBot 2021-05-03

You may think you're hot stuff, the Fred Astaire of this topic — but if you're Fred Astaire, I'm Ginger Rogers: Anything you can do, I can do — backwards, without looking, and in high heels.

You're a computer systems engineer? Wow! Have you publicly called out the CEO of Intel for the untrustability of their encryption blackbox silicon? Have you explained at an ELI5 level the feasibility and utility of peer-to-peer communications network routing? How about explaining fast fourier transforms to a college kid? These are just the things in computer science I've been gilded for. That doesn't count the parts where I picked up the comment of an actual climate scientist that demolishes every single claim made in your oldest gilded comment. Or the two years worth of reddit gold other people gifted me just for being the flagbearer of that comment. That doesn't cover where I kneecapped a transphobe's Loaded Question in an AMA in /r/science. Oh, and then there was the one where I explained morphological diversity and the evolutionary basis of intelligence in Aves and Mammalia.

And those are just the gilded comments.

That doesn't cover the comments where I haven't been gilded, like when I shredded the methodology of a trash poll conducted to produce misleading public support figures on the question of whether trans people ahould be allowed to use a restroom.

The thing is, that once someone has been a scientist, they never stop being a scientist. They never stop thinking rationally and critically. They tear apart obvious bullshit with ease after years of doing peer review with actual scientists, after working with their advisors and departments to produce a worthwhile and defensible doctoral thesis, even.

Your most recent gilded comment is a regurgitation of a Stormfront / White Supremacist blogosphere talking-points memo, which in turn was based on a bullshit misread of a statistical publication, by conflating causation with correlation.

And no, my capslock key isn't stuck; I prised it off my keyboard two decades ago so that I would have to be cognisant of holding Shift with my pinky while typing, so that I wouldn't accidentally hose up Windows 2000 source code. Every capitalised letter I write is intentional.

I have no more time to play slapbox with you.

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