<P> The term friendzone can be verbified, as in the sentence "So, she's friendzoned you ." Although the term is apparently gender - neutral, friend zone is often used to describe a situation in a male - female relationship in which the male is in the friend zone and the female is the object of his unrequited desire . The person who does the friendzoning is referred to as the friendzoner, whereas the person who gets friendzoned is called the friend - zonee . </P> <P> The term "friend zone" is sometimes used in pick up artist (PUA) literature, where it forms part of PUA theories about female sexual attraction to males . </P> <P> Writer Jeremy Nicholson in Psychology Today suggested that a romantic pursuer, in order to avoid being rejected up front, uses a ploy of acting friendly as a "back door" way into a hoped - for relationship . When this method does not work, the pursuer consequently is placed in the friend zone . </P> <P> According to some psychologists, the man in a cross-gender friendship is more likely to be attracted to his woman friend than she is to him, and he is more likely to overestimate her interest in a romantic or sexual relationship . </P>

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