If Men and Women Can’t Just be Friends, How Can the Friendzone Exist?

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In “When Harry Met Sally”, Harry declares to Sally that men and women can’t be friends. Sally denies this, sharing that she has lots of male friends. “You only think you do,” says Harry.

He affirms that men and women cannot be friends because attraction always gets in the way, mostly for men who will eventually want to have sex with these female…