#platonic
I could only repeat ‘we’re just friends’ for a certain amount of time until it seemed like no one would ever believe me. In 2011, a YouTube video called ‘Why Men and Women Can’t be Friends’ raked 14 million views, and was shared widely on social media; it made a self-explanatory case. Platonic relationships are almost always ridiculed, masked with the ‘it's complicated’ narrative, when sometimes, it is really not complicated. By definition, platonic relationships are characereized by an absence…
