I’m too lazy to write a real post today, so I thought I’d point you all to a pretty decent analysis of the dreaded “friend zone” by Foz Meadows on goodreads.
Here she is addressing the “Nice Guys” of the world:
[S]omewhere along the line, you’ve got it into your head that if you’re romantically interested in a girl who sees you only as a friend, her failure to reciprocate your feelings is just that: a failing. That because you’re nice and treat her well, she therefore owes you at least one opportunity to present yourself as a viable sexual candidate, even if she’s already made it clear that this isn’t what she wants. That because she legitimately enjoys a friendship that you find painful (and which you’re under no obligation to continue), she is using you. That if a man wants more than friendship with a woman, then the friendship itself doesn’t even attain the status of a consolation prize, but is instead viewed as hell: a punishment to be endured because, so long as he thinks she owes him that golden opportunity, he is bound to persist in an association that hurts him – not because he cares about the friendship, but because he feels he’s invested too much kindness not to stick around for the (surely inevitable, albeit delayed) payoff.
Seriously, Nice Guys, if you think of your friendship with a woman as a means to an end, or some kind of purgatory, then it’s not really a friendship, and you’re doing both yourself and your crush a disservice by persisting in it. (I learned this lesson myself the hard way, a long time before there were helpful internet posts explaining to me why Nice Guying was a recipe for crappiness all around.)
Speaking of learning: I also learned from Foz Meadows’ post that there is a Wikipedia entry for “friend zone,” complete with advice on how dudes can avoid getting “friendzoned” in the first place.
Several advisers urged men, during the initial dates, to touch women physically in appropriate places such as elbows or shoulders as a means of increasing the sexual tension. … Adviser Ali Binazir agrees, and suggested for the man to be a “little bit dangerous”, not in a violent sense, but “with a bit of an edge to them”, and be unpredictable and feel “comfortable in their skin as sexual beings.”
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia … for Your Penis*.
Also: Here is the official Friend Zone anthem, “Consolation Prize” by Orange Juice. Lyrics here.
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* Hetero cis penis only.
The specificity that it’s Second Wave feminists is interesting, too. I mean it’s been a good thirty years since second-wave feminism was really big. Maybe he means to implicate radical feminists but didn’t know the terminology?
Now I’m curious which individuals in the media he figures are the secret evil feminists. Um… Michael Bay? Jerry Bruckheimer? Steven Spielberg? J.J. Abrams? Harvey Weinstein? Rupert Murdoch?
…You’d think if secret evil feminists were taking over Hollywood, they’d at least install a few more women in there?
The sag-women, wrong or rightly, believe only men must be controlled with Pornosec. This is why they are misandrist. There is a bit less sexualization of men because the ass ugly saggers want to raise women up while keeping the male masses muzzled and attached to their prolefeed of breasts. It is the opposite of misogynist, it is an attempt for full-on female supremacy.
HAAHAAHAHH tucker max really???? Ok I knew he was a dick but I didn’t know he had weird conspiracies about women to go along with it. XD
Can we get a new troll to play with? I`m bored with this one.
Men? I don’t even get to see ONE SHIRTLESS MAN. Never mind men in LINGERIE.
You do get to see two men on a stripper bed…
Seriously, that’s got to be the most bromantic movie I’ve ever seen.
WHERE ARE MY SEXUALIZED MEN FOR MY GUSTATION?
In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, unfortunately.
PLAN TO ESTABLISH WOMEN AS OVERLORDS:
1. Encourage men to jerk off to images of hypersexualized, submissive women who exist mostly as decoration and prizes for male heroes and have no lives or desires of their own.
2. ????
3. Profit!
4. Sag.
sag-women…poronosec..no way this guy is real XD
If Second Wave feminists control the media, why do they insist on portraying all women as having irregular bowel movements until they start eating tons of Activia?
Oh, and if you’re looking for Michael Fassbender’s penis…
(SFW–it’s IMDB, not a picture of his penis.)
It’s like someone raised George Orwell from the dead but forgot to reanimate his brain.
Many of you people are saying things that aren’t exactly true. Ex: sexualization is all over.
Note that this isn’t really true. Sexualized women are generally limited to a certain variety of movie… and these are generally not enjoyed by critics. Connecting the dots now? Sexualization isn’t really rampant, it’s just there as a distraction… a sex-food-muzzle for the male masses.
…what’s pronosec? or do I not want to know?
And the second wave part is weird, that aunt is 60~ these days (and contrary what Thermos might think, not sagging, wtf is with sag-women? have any of the previous trolls pulled that one?)
<blockquote?…believe only men must be controlled with Pornosec.
Oh my! We’re using Orwell now. Tell me, Thermos, where are the second wave feminists located? Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, or Miniplenty?
Maybe “sag-women” is referring to women in the Screen Actors’ Guild? That would mesh with the “feminists control the media” idea.
True. If you make up the facts, you can make any conspiracy make sense.
And by “certain varities of movies” you mean “the highest-selling blockbusters, that are watched and funded by the ticket purchases of millions and millions of people” right?
@Argenti – It’s a 1984 reference. Pornosec was a division in Minitrue where cheap pornography was cranked out for the proletariat’s amusement. Only women, specifically members of the Anti-Sex League worked there.
Yeah, men are so distracted by breasts, they barely found the time to be the vast majority of elected representatives and company owners. What a devious plan.
…Not that I can win this game. According to troll logic, if men are more represented in leadership roles, that proves men are more fit to lead. If women are more represented, that proves that men are being unfairly kept down.
See, if you start with the assumption that women aren’t quite all the way human, further facts can always be made to fit.
The definition of “facts” seems rather loose with them, making up facts, someone was going on about facts coming from your brain over the weekend…that’s not how facts work >.<
Yes crumbelievable prolefeed is popular. The popularity of sexualized movies is indicative of the success of the misandrist Second Wave butt ugly mustached women with lardfat… they have so muzzled the male masses that they will rush to hook up their IV to the sex-prolefeed.
It’s misandry.
pell?
Lady Zombie, thank you, I really should read 1984 again, it’s been years (or rather, one very politically chaotic decade)
A guy with the username “Christ” has an overinflated view of his own opinion? I never would have guessed it.
Mmmmm, lardfat is the best fat.
Thermos is probably our good friend, the exalted Whiny One.
I can`t mention his name without going into moderation for some reason though.