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The New York Times discovers the "girl crush" phenomena and manages not to be completely idiotic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/fashion/thursdaystyles/11CRUSH.html
19th century literature and social conventions are appropriately mentioned and so forth, but wow do I wish we could have a better name for the phenomena, which when termed "girl crush" serves to trivialize friendship the way we constantly do in this "just friends" world. Also, I feel the article really shouldn't attempt to address men at all, because it really leaves out a lot of what is going on in the culture on that front especially if you look at the move from buddy movies to these films about very serious non-sexual bonds between men (e.g., Lord of the Rings and the 8-bazillion essays it's spawned on romantic friendship/the new homosociality).
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/fashion/thursdaystyles/11CRUSH.html
19th century literature and social conventions are appropriately mentioned and so forth, but wow do I wish we could have a better name for the phenomena, which when termed "girl crush" serves to trivialize friendship the way we constantly do in this "just friends" world. Also, I feel the article really shouldn't attempt to address men at all, because it really leaves out a lot of what is going on in the culture on that front especially if you look at the move from buddy movies to these films about very serious non-sexual bonds between men (e.g., Lord of the Rings and the 8-bazillion essays it's spawned on romantic friendship/the new homosociality).
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and what's wrong with "romantic friendship" for g/g stuff? certainly in england, it's acceptable for that.
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"I like her, but I don't LIKE liker her is NEWS?!?!?!?!!
New York Times needs to stop sucking in a pretty major way. Where's my leftist newspaper that caters to the snobby intelligencia? Where?!
And where are my kazoos?!
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To paraphrase, our culture is a total mess when it comes to discussing anything relating to gender , but we already knew that (sigh).
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On a completely unrelated note, reading that article and thinking about similar close relationships that I've seen, I realized that I feel & act this way (with both women and men) - odd, but ultimately not all that surprising.
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