Every fujoshi knows that friends exist. However, these are fictional characters, so they can interpret them how they want, no? I feel like this saying is more appropriately applied to real life, assuming a man and a woman must be in a relationship together if they are friends or something of the like. When it comes to fiction, it's just another lens of text interpretation.
Just wanted to correct you on something as I looked into it, the saying doesn't apply to real life because the actual full quote has
nothing to do with fujoshis, shipping and so on, to quote C.S Lewis:
“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.
... In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away.”
What he
actually said is that someone who can only see romantic love (Eros) as love never had a friend, it's from his book titled The Four Loves which talk about, well, the four loves :V, Storge (familial love), Philia (deep friendship), Eros (romantic love) and Agape (unconditional love)
It's the usual someone wanting to sound smart but just embarassing themselves cause they're ignorant of what they quoted actually means, I also argue that it's especially laughable and embarassing because he's shooting at fujoshis due to a
two page joke in the manga rather than because there's some actual real fujoshi in the comments shipping them
I guess bro got pretty triggered at seeing the fujoshi joke or something
