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friend zone
The friend zone, in popular culture, refers to a platonic relationship wherein one person, most commonly a man,〔 wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship, while the other does not.〔Oxford Dictionary, (friend zone ), Accessed Jan. 22, 2014, "...a situation in which a friendship exists between two people, one of whom has an unrequited romantic or sexual interest in the other..."〕〔 It is generally considered to be an undesirable or dreaded〔Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2011, ('The Bachelor' recap: Girls get wild in Anguilla ), "...the dreaded friend zone..."〕 situation by the lovelorn person.〔 If a desired party does not return or respond affirmatively to the advances or affection of the desiring party, but continues to participate in the friendship in a platonic way, it is sometimes described as ''friend-zoning''.〔 In a related sense of the term, ''friend zone'' can describe a "commitment mismatch", such as when two people are sexually involved, but in which one person wants a committed relationship such as being a boyfriend or girlfriend, while the other does not.〔 According to psychologists, the man in a cross-gender friendship is more likely to be attracted to his woman friend than she is to him, and he is more likely to overestimate her interest in a romantic or sexual relationship.〔〔April Bleske-Rechek, Erin Somers, Cierra Micke, Leah Erickson, Lindsay Matteson, Corey Stocco, Brittany Schumacher, Laura Ritchie, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2012, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, (Benefit or burden?: Attraction in cross-sex friendship ), Retrieved Sept. 29, 2014, pages 569-596〕 The concept has been criticized by feminists as being unfair and misogynistic in imposing an obligation on women to offer sex in return for kind actions by men.〔
==Application==
There are differing explanations about what causes a person to be placed in the friend zone by another. It might result from misinterpreted signals or from a fear that a deeper relationship might jeopardize the friendship. A ''Chicago Tribune'' writer suggested there were several cases in which someone might become relegated to the friend zone: (1) person A is not sufficiently attracted to person B, (2) person A misinterprets nonverbal cues from person B signaling their interest in deepening the relationship, (3) there is sexual repulsion (but not enough to block a friendship).〔 In a friendship between the two people, being relegated to the ''friend zone'' can happen to either person. In another instance, a woman described her male friend, someone she was comfortable with as if he was one of her girlfriends, but their relationship became problematic when he wanted their relationship to develop romantically but she did not. One man compared the friend zone to being a "third wheel" and having only a platonic relationship with a woman.〔November 21, 2005, Susan King, ''Los Angeles Times'', (Following his life into the 'love zone' ), Accessed Jan. 22, 2014, "... I was the third wheel who would listen to all of her problems, and we would have platonic sleepovers like in the movie..."〕 Writer Jeremy Nicholson in ''Psychology Today'' suggested another problem with the friend zone, specifically that a romantic pursuer, instead of being rejected up front, uses the ploy of friendly acts as a "back door" approach into a romantic relationship.〔 pg.3〕
Marshall Fine of ''The Huffington Post'' suggested that the friend zone is "like the penalty box of dating, when your only crime is not being buff and unobtainable." Dating adviser Ali Binazir described the friend zone as ''Justfriendistan'', and wrote that it's a "territory only to be rivaled in inhospitability by the Western Sahara, the Atacama, and Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell." Mastin Kipp of the Huffington Post described himself as always having girlfriends who were "girls" but were only his "friends", meaning there was no sex between them.
There is general agreement that once someone is in the friend zone, it is difficult to get out.〔Los Angeles Times, (The Art of Getting By' review: As it turns out, some teenagers are awkward and shy ), Accessed Jan. 22, 2014, "...about escaping teenage gloom or the friend zone..."〕
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