This may be the most accurate thing ever.

[Sherlock Holmes]

No man, that's a woman being a manipulative bitch. Being in the friendzone is as Hank has said, a girl keeping you as a friend after you tried to make the relationship something more. It's not a bad thing inherently, it's just a thing that happens.

The negative/demonizing aspect of the friendzone comes from the retards who appropriated it to feel better about being rejected by a random chick they approached or being pathetic cowards who can't man up and tell their friend they're romantically attracted to them. Being in the actual friendzone isn't a bad thing unless you're a dumb cunt who obsesses over the girl and can't move on with your fucking life, in which case you're retarded and deserve to be rejected by everyone for being a clingy douche.

This.

[Hank]

This.

Look, a woman said it, okay? Now it's true. It's canon. Anyone who disagrees can drown themselves in sulfur.

[Vena Sera IV]

No man, that's a woman being a manipulative bitch. Being in the friendzone is as Hank has said, a girl keeping you as a friend after you tried to make the relationship something more. It's not a bad thing inherently, it's just a thing that happens.

The negative/demonizing aspect of the friendzone comes from the retards who appropriated it to feel better about being rejected by a random chick they approached or being pathetic cowards who can't man up and tell their friend they're romantically attracted to them. Being in the actual friendzone isn't a bad thing unless you're a dumb cunt who obsesses over the girl and can't move on with your fucking life, in which case you're retarded and deserve to be rejected by everyone for being a clingy douche.

[3] Though I'd use less... Abrasive terms, that's how I see it.

[Sherlock Holmes]

Look, a woman said it, okay? Now it's true. It's canon. Anyone who disagrees can drown themselves in sulfur.

It shouldn't be because I'm a woman, it should be law because I'm a logical / rational thinking individual. Stop being a sexist pain in my ass, Hank.

[♠Ace♠]

Friendzone, as far as I'm concerned, refers to the place you land in after you make advances on a girl and she rejects you specifically because she doesn't want to ruin the friendship. By that definition, pussies who do nothing are not in the friendzone. Which is also I think what Jorick meant.

This was my own understanding of it as well.

When the girl also thinks of you as being practically family it also applies.