Not only was I genuinely shook that people still use the term, but as a bisexual person in a same-sex relationship I was a bit miffed by their flippant use of it.īut then I remembered that before I was properly ‘out’ at work, I used to say stuff like that all the time. As they spoke about spotting a female celebrity crush on the street, and listed which women they’d fancy in our building 'if they were lesbians', I nearly projectiled my contact lenses right out in the world's hardest eye-roll. In the past month, on three separate occasions, I’ve overheard straight women in my office talking very loudly about their 'girl crush'.