“Ladies, check your friend zone” Ladies, please don’t.

Gabe Beasley
2 min readFeb 13, 2024
Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash

Whether it be on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, it doesn’t matter the social media platform. We’ve all come across the comments where dudes are saying women should check their friendzones if they really want a man that treats them right, something along those lines.

COMPLETE disagree.

You can’t and shouldn’t expect to be treated with pure, gentle love by someone who doesn’t genuinely love themselves. There’s a reason majority of people don’t think it’s possible for the honeymoon phase to be long lasting, instead of the typical 90 days everyone is used to. Not many people actually like themselves.

But I digress.

The friendzone doesn’t and never has existed. You don’t need to become someone you’re not or jump through hoops just to have someone decide you might be worth getting to know. Man or woman, if someone doesn’t see the value in you as you are, they’re not for you. Simple as. You shouldn’t stick around and orbit someone who hasn’t shown any interest, or if you know you don’t actually intend to be their friend. That’s deception and another reason the person “friend zoning you” absolutely shouldn’t give you the time of day.

When someone has self-respect and self-love and are pursuing romance, they shoot their shot, get rejected, don’t take it personal and then move on. The only sticking around they’re doing is if the interest is mutual.

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Gabe Beasley

Writer, digital artist, life-long martial artist, Scorpio, and Existentialist. INTP