Must we talk about the "girl crush"?

I didn't get around to linking to this article this morning, and now it seems so yesterday... and it was kind of dumb in the first place anyway, but I thought you might enjoy talking about the supposed phenomenon of the "girl crush" or the way the NYT falls all over itself trying to tell us about cultural phenomena like the "girl crush."

Mostly, the "girl crush" seems to be a vogue phrase for something that has been around for a long time: a fawning but nonsexual interest one woman has in another. Basically, one woman is just way too interested in how fabulous another woman is, and if the object of the crush realizes this, it's not really going to work out very well as a friendship.