Why does Jezebel always have to mock any news about parents being concerned about their kids? And why should 8-12 year olds only have very short, tight and cropped options available in the more affordable stores? I have girls that age and they don't want to wear that stuff, but it's not easy to find cute and…

I'm okay with the kind of sex story where people tell me who they did it with, where, and was it awesome or not? That's pretty harmless. But I don't think I would care for really graphic ad descriptive sex tales, even from a good friend.

Another reason for ending your friendship, beyond it "not being good for your heart," would be that she doesn't respect you or your boundaries. In fact that's probably a better reason.

Correct. The term "friend zone" has been co-opted and redefined on certain websites. It's a perfectly valid term for liking someone without reciprocation, while continuing to maintain a friendship with those same feelings for them. The most appalling attitudes expressed by AN EXTREME MINORITY on dark corners of the…

Well, friendzone doesn't really evoke "that the other person has locked you in an evil, dark cage that you're forced to occupy miserably"

If the phrase was "friendslave" "friendtorture" "buddytrapped" "palpunished" etc., it'd really sound like that to me ;-)

Weirdly, it's often the case that a parson hasn't been rejected- they've never given themselves the chance to be rejected, but are just hanging around hoping they'll one day be noticed.

It probably happens about the same amount, women just don't complain about it on the internet all day.

I think there's a difference in the neutral form of the word and how it's used socio-politically. The latter is what the article is discussing. I've certainly heard the word used colloquially by both genders but a lot of the non-internet discussion around it from my experience is about the more niche political usage.

Yeah, it's taken on this whole new, menacing life lately due to its association with a vocal group of entitled jerks. I've seen it casually thrown around quite a lot, and said it myself as well (I'm female), to describe situations in which I liked someone who saw me as a friend. Or, more accurately, I was trying to…

Haha. I should add an update: I chopped my hair off a year ago and have not had this problem since. :) Short hair =/= girlfriend material, apparently. LOL.

Yeah, "friendzoned" has never really bothered me. In my experience, it's just used by people when the object of their affection only sees them as a friend, and they're sad about it. It makes sense to me.

Yes ma'am I tell you WHUT. Women in the Friendzone is a thing, and always has been. Guys seem to think that all girls can get romantic attention just by snapping their fingers… but there are millions of us who've gotten the "I like you as a friend" talk.

Impossible! All men everywhere are attracted to all women everywhere*, which is also the only reason they ever interact with any of them! Haven't you been listening???????

It's a narrative that Jezebel has concocted that simplifies (and worse, gets mostly wrong) a vastly more complicated set of interactions, and sadly a lot of the concoctees use it as a way of self-aggrandizement.

See, I've always throught the friendzone was at it's basic level just unrequited love. I don't know about redditors but generally the frustration I would hear from other guys in the friendzone isn't entirely about the lack of reciprocation. More it's that they constantly hear the female friend bemoaning that she…

You kids are doing it all wrong.

I'm not sure where this idea came from, that there's one single group of people in society using the word friendzone. I know several women who use the word, and I regularly see it on the internet being used by women. It's just a new word for unrequited affection. You don't have to feel entitled to someone'…

Yeah, it would. I was noticing the weirdly-shaped legs on mannequins in a shop window the other day—they were weirdly narrow and tapered (in a way that was more awkward than it was aspirational thinness), and it dawned on me that part of the reason that mannequins are shaped the way they are is because it's a pain in…

I can't agree on the fact that it is 'a great step for the glossy magazine industry' as they are and always will just want to sell magazines, and Lena is hot right now. But I do wholeheartedly agree that the attack on Lena is awful and completely not cool.

Twice my husband has gotten this one.