Teenage boys have been whining about girls since way before the Internet gave them an anonymous space to be sexist little turds about it. But the “friendzone” is a relatively new idea, and like vomit ...

LIES, manipulation and espionage: Think that buddy of the opposite sex is there for the right reasons? Welcome to ‘friendzone’, a covert strategy aimed at luring you into an evil web of seduction.

Popular culture commonly understands the “friendzone” as a sort of relational limbo—a place where one person's romantic feelings are unreciprocated by a friend who prefers to maintain a platonic ...