Passionate male friendships were seen as a specific life-stage thing:
The equivalent of girls in (single-sex) boarding-schools having crushes on older girls? I understand from the literature that that was a thing, though I noticed nothing like that in mine. But then I was only there for the 6th form, thus avoiding the Darwinian savagery of the Middle School.
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Date: 2021-10-23 01:11 pm (UTC)The equivalent of girls in (single-sex) boarding-schools having crushes on older girls? I understand from the literature that that was a thing, though I noticed nothing like that in mine. But then I was only there for the 6th form, thus avoiding the Darwinian savagery of the Middle School.