Why is there not a word for this?
Feb. 7th, 2009 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engSo, I've been explaining who Stephen Fry is to people a lot lately.
I'll do this again, shall I? Stephen Fry is, according to his wikipedia page, "an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter." He is especially known for his role in Jeeves and Wooster. (Of course, my perspective is helplessly skewed because of PBS. Stephen Fry has an imdb page.)
He is also a geek. He has a very shiny website and twitters. [I believe that the latter came to my attention quite recently, when Stephen Fry was stuck in an elevator. He twittered about it and sent amusing pictures into the interwebs. This was news. This was news in New Zealand. (The world is a bizarre and intriguing place.)] He and Douglas Adams were friends and fellow tech-lovers - he wrote the introduction to The Salmon of Doubt. He was also, the voice of The Guide in the film, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It's a nice voice. I was watching a bit of The Machine that Made Us over lunch a couple of weeks ago and it was very calming. The Gutenberg press is awesome and Fry is amusing.
One of our fridge phrases has been a quote from his appearance as a guest captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks. There's a fair bit of geekitude on show there - various bits of random knowledge. Fry hosts a panel show himself, these days, QI.
I was explaining who he was to a friend a few days ago (in rather less detail) and the words "mancrush" and "girlcrush" came up. These are both words describing a nonsexual attraction to or admiration of a person of the same gender, which begs an interesting question: why is there not a word for this when it's the admiration of a person of the opposite gender?
I'll do this again, shall I? Stephen Fry is, according to his wikipedia page, "an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter." He is especially known for his role in Jeeves and Wooster. (Of course, my perspective is helplessly skewed because of PBS. Stephen Fry has an imdb page.)
He is also a geek. He has a very shiny website and twitters. [I believe that the latter came to my attention quite recently, when Stephen Fry was stuck in an elevator. He twittered about it and sent amusing pictures into the interwebs. This was news. This was news in New Zealand. (The world is a bizarre and intriguing place.)] He and Douglas Adams were friends and fellow tech-lovers - he wrote the introduction to The Salmon of Doubt. He was also, the voice of The Guide in the film, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It's a nice voice. I was watching a bit of The Machine that Made Us over lunch a couple of weeks ago and it was very calming. The Gutenberg press is awesome and Fry is amusing.
One of our fridge phrases has been a quote from his appearance as a guest captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks. There's a fair bit of geekitude on show there - various bits of random knowledge. Fry hosts a panel show himself, these days, QI.
I was explaining who he was to a friend a few days ago (in rather less detail) and the words "mancrush" and "girlcrush" came up. These are both words describing a nonsexual attraction to or admiration of a person of the same gender, which begs an interesting question: why is there not a word for this when it's the admiration of a person of the opposite gender?