The Science of the Friend Zone - YouTube
Some of his points are cliche but a lot of them make a lot of sense. I personally don't believe the friendzone exists unless you allow yourself to be there. Do you guys agree or no?
this guy is wrong. there is nothing wrong with rejection if a woman just isn't attracted to you. if you get along otherwise, there is also nothing wrong with being friends. but a woman trying to put you in the friendzone is not your friend, she is using you, playing games and wasting your time.
i had this one chick at school who at first seemed to have a total crush on me. she went to great length to get my attention and when she finally did, she started playing a game i would call "hot and cold". one day she was all into me, the next she borderline ignored me. and dates would always start out pretty good and right in the middle of it, she would start blocking all advances and switch to just hanging out with a friend. she also became flakey and started telling me about other guys that asked her out. so i was like

and stopped seeing her. i would be nice when we met at school, but other than that, i completely lost interest. she approached me a couple of times, hinting at us doing something together again, but i ignored her.
however, at some point she told me that she was pretty bad at dating or flirting, because she didn't know what to do. i also overheard her talking to a friend when she said something along the lines of "it started out kind of romantic, but you know i'm not good at that, so i screwed it up". then we were assigned to do a project together. we met at her house a couple of times, working on our project and she started escalating. i thought about fukking her, but with what i had seen before, i didn't feel comfortable about it, because we had to write this paper together, and i didn't want to jeoperdize my grades over some p*ssy. on the other hand, i had grown to like her, because we had a lot of things in common, she had a sense of humor and she struck me as a genuinely good person. so i thought that if she really was just shy or bad at dating, than i would try and give her another chance when we finished the paper, and see if she was serious about me.
i asked her out again, but she started playing the same kinds of games. so i gave her the

face and told her that i took her behavior as disrespect. in response, she fed me all this bs about how she had feelings for me, but that she had a lot of doubts about whether or not a relationship would work out because we went to school together and blablabla. couldn't we just stay friends. i was like

at first but then i

and told her no, that she had manipulated me into making an ass out of myself, that what she had just told me was bs and that i had never met a woman who was undecided for month on end about whether or not she was attracted to me. she wrote me an email later, talking about complicated feelings and whatnot, which i ignored. so after a couple of weeks, she hit me up on facebook, trying to make smalltalk as if nothing had happened.

i ignored that too. she left town soon afterwards, and a couple of month later, i received a message from her, saying that she was visiting and meeting up with a couple of mutual friends...
that right there is the friendzone, a woman trying to string you along. it is to be avoided at all costs. i can respect a woman who straight up tells me she isn't interested, or who let's me down after a couple of dates when she loses interest. it happens. everything else is nothing but manipulation and all you can do to a woman like that is to tell her to fukk off and leave you alone.