The Girl Crush

Jennifer 8. Lee unleashed the term "man date" onto the unsuspecting social lexicon on April 10th. Her article, reprinted here, will give her a few years of dinner-party faux fame and a lifetime of resentment from men who don't like their guy-time to come anywhere near the word "date". Now, however, an equal and opposite term has touched down, also in the NYTimes Style section. Stephanie Rosenbloom introduces the world to the "girl crush", a grotesque melange of admiration and attachment that grown women apparently feel toward one another on occasion. A girl crush goes beyond the understandable admiration of meeting someone you wish you were like; it is similar, social scientists say, to a romantic crush, though it lacks sexual overtones. A crush may blossom into a friendship, or (like a romantic crush) it may simply weird out the object of this effete emotional diarrhea. Girl crush. Just saying it makes me want to throw up in my mouth.