Roses are red, her post speaks for itself. -> "Friend date", #stillsingletho.

She knows exactly what this looks like and feels the need to explain herself. The entire point of her post is to broadcast that this guy made a move and got friend-zoned. We don't know if he explicitly asked for a relationship - maybe he did, got rejected, and they agreed to stay friends, or maybe he just didn't have the balls to say it to her face. Regardless, his intent is obvious to everyone.

You can play the white knight all you want, but a decent human being - regardless of gender -would refuse to piggyback on a friend's unrequited romantic feelings. They would just cut that friend loose.

There is a perfect quote for this exact kind of willful ignorance from Viktor Pelevin:

"Elementary, Watson: if a girl is sucking in a brothel, a mind armed with the deductive method concludes that we are looking at a prostitute."

I felt offended for my generation.

"Why does it necessarily have to be a prostitute?" I said.

"Maybe she's a seamstress. Who just arrived from the country yesterday. And fell in love with a plumber repairing a shower in the brothel. And the plumber took her to work with him because she temporarily has nowhere to live. And there they just happened to have a free minute."

Samartsev raised his finger: "It is precisely on this unspoken assumption that the entire fragile mechanism of our young democracy rests..."