If I may.

The issue with being friendzone isn't that men don't value women as friends. Women are great as friends. It is that man can't take a rejection and then stay friends. Then use that friendship to later get into a relationship.

However, it also goes the other way to. If a woman wants to be friends with a guy, but he can't see her that way, than that is also sort of a rejection.

What both sexes need to do is just learn to move on. If you aren't getting with a woman, men shoudl just find another. And if a woman wants to be friends with a guy that wants something more, she should just get better friends.

I've learned you can't really change people. And I have also learned that if you want something from someone you aren't getting, you should just find someone else who can give it to you.