One of the latest blue pill tropes for struggling men is to be platonic friends with women, because by doing so you will be introduced to more women, and your friend can potentially set you up on a date with their female friends.

In my experience, the only time this happens is when you are nominally attractive to begin with. For an unattractive male who is orbiting, this will never take place.

For example, if a guy is a 7/10, but the female friend will see him as a catch and will probably be happy to introduce him to other women. This is because the female friend in question believes she would be honoring the value of another woman by introducing her to a worthy male.

However, let's take a guy who is a 4/10. Maybe he is short, balding, or has bad facial features. Women do not, under any circumstances, introduce this person to their female friends in a dating context. Why? Because they know their female friends would take this as an insult and would be demonstrating the idea that they too must be low value.

If this kind of "set up" scenario was so common, then men would not be having issues with the friend zone or orbiting. It would be a legitimate dating strategy. But it's not because it so rarely if ever happens.

If a woman places a man in the friend zone because she believes he is unattractive. Simple as that. She is not going to risk insulting her friends. So this advice is terrible and doomed for failure.