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"Y'see, when a girl decides that you're her friend, you're no longer a dating option. You become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like a brother... or a lamp. " - From "Just Friends" Movie <sub>mw 08</sub> |
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"Jeffy I want to be more than just co-workers, I want to be co-partners" Bert Arkus |
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The friend zone (or friendship zone) is an unofficial concept found in many texts geared towards a male audience about "dating advice." It refers to the situation where the female has begun to view a male as a friend only and not a potential suitor. Once this psychological classification has been made it becomes exceptionally difficult to be undone.[citation needed]
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Sex columnist Catherine Townsend describes it as a mutual problem where two people are "trapped in that place of hopelessness and desperation" much like the case at Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a young gentlemen named Phil Russo. He said, "you in the purple shirt squeeze those titties together. when they don't want to "risk ruining the friendship if everything crashed and burned". Townsend also cites a feared loss of romance and mystery as well as a fear of rejection.[1] Cosmopolitan magazine has called it "relationship quicksand", but notes that in a 2001 Match.com survey, 71% of respondents hoped that they would fall in love with a friend.[2]
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"Y'see, when a girl decides that you're her friend, you're no longer a dating option. You become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like a brother... or a lamp. " - From "Just Friends" Movie mw 08
"Jeffy I want to be more than just co-workers, I want to be co-partners" Bert Arkus
History
The term friend zone was popularized by a 1994 episode of the television sitcom Friends, where the character Ross Geller, lovesick for Rachel Green, was labeled "Mayor of the Friend Zone".[3] The question of whether a man can ever "escape 'The Friend Zone' and begin dating one of his female friends" was key to what made the Ross and Rachel pairing on the show a "geek dream couple".[4]
The 2005 film Just Friends also deals with the "friend zone" and how it impacts on the main character of the film (played by Ryan Reynolds) when he re-united with his female friend from high school (played by Amy Smart) for the first time in 10 years after an incident at a high school graduation party at her home in which she said that she loves him "like a brother", dashing any hopes of him having her as a girlfriend.[5]
It has also been suggested that women may also become victims of the "friend zone". This is mainly due to a serious lack of physical attraction.[6]
References
- ^ Catherine Townsend (February 21 2006). "Sex that was worth waiting for". The Independent. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "When you fall for a guy pal: the "just friends" zone is like relationship quicksand, but you can get out with a few strategic maneuvers". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
- ^ "Friends: The One With the Blackout Recap". TV.com. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
- ^ "IGN's Top 10 Favorite TV Couples". IGN. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
- ^ "Amy Smart on Just Friends", RadioFree.com Interviews (Nov. 5, 2005)
- ^ "Just friends - why it happens?", AskMen.com