Is friend zone a misogynistic term now? Freestyle Tuesday

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 2 p.m.

Friend Zone" is a term used for the situation in which one person in a mutual friendship wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship with the other person, while the other does not. The person whose romantic advances were rejected is then said to have "entered" (or to have been "put in") the friend zone, with the sense that they are stuck there.