This Cartoon Writer Had the Most Epic Takedown of a Tweet About the "Friend Zone"

The "friend zone": the category some guys put themselves into when a female isn't romantically interested in them. It comes with a lot of negative connotations and basically allows the person to feel bad about themselves because it's now been confirmed that they're not getting laid . . . because god forbid a woman has a platonic relationship with someone of the opposite gender without intentions beyond friendship.

So, when a Twitter user posted cartoon characters like Ron Stoppable and Beast Boy next to their female counterparts as "the definition of being in the friend zone," he was immediately corrected by one of the creators himself.

These dudes were the definition of being in the friend zone pic.twitter.com/jF4XyYbEQd

— Jiraiya (@YahBoyJiraiya) November 15, 2016

David Slack, Teen Titans producer and writer, debunked the friend zone entirely.

Hi. I wrote two of these characters. I hope you someday learn what Beast Boy already knew: that women are actually people...

— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) July 3, 2017

He continues to explain that women are not objects and that the idea of friend zone only reinforces the notion that if a relationship with a woman isn't romantic, it's not good.

And if you don't value friendship with a woman, you don't deserve anything beyond that anyway.

— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) July 3, 2017

p.s. Slade's manipulation & mind control kept Terra & BB apart -- it was friendship that saved them.

— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) July 3, 2017

This implication rests on the assumption that you have the right to be in the "romantic zone" regardless of how the woman feels.

— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) July 4, 2017

And that disregard for the wants, needs, & basic humanity of a woman you claim to like... is misogyny. Hope that clears things up.

— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) July 4, 2017

Someone give this guy a damn medal.