Keep tipping your fedora all you want, maybe one day you'll get out of the nonexistent "friend zone" because you're such a "nice guy". Girls don't get special treatment, they're just people. As long as you treat them how you want to be treated then you're in the clear. And the only failure here is you, defending some girl you never met over the internet who probably wouldn't even take 2 seconds of her time to acknowledge your pathetic existence. There are very few women in the world worth special treatment, a rose among a sea of thorns.