No. The only manipulation going on is by the men who think being friends with them is going to get them laid. Lets be real honest. Read the post from the guy who was friends with a woman for 4 years and then one night was high and grabbed her tits and played with her pvssy as she lay next to him in the bed...
Actually that’s not how these things usually go, your example is a small fraction but somehow is focused on as what always happens and how it plays out. Keep in mind, you’re talking to a guy with almost 40 years of experience with women, this isn’t stuff I just made up. Women love to use the phrase “the best relationships start out as friendships!”. Young guys hear this, inexperienced guys hear this. They take this to heart. Truth is the best relationships start out with sex. Sex is the foundation. Not friendship, not getting to know her and taking it slowly. Sex is the only thing. The guy isn’t biding his time hoping to get in her pants, what’s going on is he’s trying to get to know her the way she claimed she wanted. What the guy doesn’t realize is he’s going about it the wrong way. This only takes a few times and he learns a hard lesson. That lesson is so not be friends with women. It’s not a popular mindset and most scoff at the idea, even on here, but it really is the hard cold truth. There’s no benefit to any man befriending a woman, in any scenario. Once I learned this hard lesson I become MUCH happier and it’s saved me a ton of trouble. Other men come to realize my way is right, they may not speak in it as openly as I do but they eventually draw the same conclusion. The time you waste being a woman’s friend you could be using on meeting a woman that doesn’t want to be your friend. I cut off females that offer friendship, cold and fast, I straight up ghost them brutally. I have no time in my life for friendships with women and it’s not something I’m interested in putting the effort into. The reward isn’t there for me, it’s only there for her. That’s not fair.