This is not a new phenomenon. Women, especially young women, have always had such feelings of adoration for each other. Social scientists suspect such emotions are part of women’s nature, feelings that evolution may have favored because they helped women bond with one another and work cooperatively. What’s new is the current generation’s willingness to express their ardor frankly.
–Stephanie Rosenbloom, She’s So Cool, So Smart, So Beautiful: Must Be a Girl Crush
I’ve been fortunate to experience this mutually in several friendships. When I meet a woman who is intelligent, curious, expressive, compassionate, with whom I connect, sometimes there is a synchronicity that sparks a lovely, intense regard. I believe I only learned the term “girl crush” in the past couple of years; it is quite apt.
[link via my brother, Tony, who often happens across cool articles that he knows I’ll enjoy]
Although a male myself, I tend to find womankind so attractive, I really wonder sometimes how marriages even occur. So many human males just seem so coarse, ugly, brutish. A handful, perhaps, measure up.
So it does not surprise me that women frequently admire each other in a spectrum of ways.
Males are so limited, no wonder it is so hard for women who hope to start a family to find a reasonable choice for spouse.
Just my bias, I suppose.