Canvassing the Internet: Platonic Admiration

[tealin]

I know I was behind the door when hormones were handed out, but surely I am not the only one who finds it possible to respect and admire someone – or even just like a fictional character – without being sexually attracted to them. In high school the response to a statement of such admiration was usually full of conspiratorial innuendo, accompanied by a virtual 'wink wink nudge nudge.' I thought that when I joined the grownup world that mindset had been left behind, but I've encountered it a few times recently and it's got me wondering. Anyone out there know what I'm talking about? Opinions? Insights? Observations? Advice, even?

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It's possible that what made me think that perception was a high school thing was that it's not as common in Canada – after all, Canadians aren't as sexually repressed as Americans (see television) and therefore might not be quite so obsessed and reactionary (see the response to the famous 'wardrobe malfunction' in either country). But it's a tenuous theory.

[fani.livejournal.com]

it's my old country all over again.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Also, Utah.

Helloooooooo repression. I'm surprised they don't still cover up their table and chair legs like the Victorians did. And everything is soooo scandalous. SO. GLAD. I AM OUT.