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Because one is birth control and one isn't? And because some organizations give free birth control but don't give free everything-you-need?

Also, free for you just means someone else pays for it.

Oh man...I remember that thing from college. Not only did it look different (which is obvious), the stylus tracked linearly. A normal tone arm follows an arc because it's stationary at one spot. This linear tracking one was supposed to have an advantage...maybe equal pressure on both sides of the groove or something. Maybe it was just marketing, but that's a 30-year-old memory that hasn't crossed my consciousness ion about that long.

That's fine that she doesn't want to be his GF, and in this case the girl isn't taking advantage of him. But with a lot of friendzoned guys, the girl enjoys the one-way-street of the guy buying her things, giving her back rubs, him always listening to her yack on and on about things that only interest girls. So,she takes all the benefits a guy normally gives to a GF without any reciprocal attention or feelings or consideration.
Nobody's saying that a guy gets to "claim" a girl, but a girl shouldn't expect to be treated as a GF without anyhting going the other way besides "he's my best guy friend" kind of thing. Don't lead on some guy with the hope that if he just did that grand romantic gesture you'd see him as BF material.
As long as I'm ranting, Guys: sack up and don't be saps when the girl clearly isn't interested in you as BF.