Are Crushes Actually Creepy?

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OK, maybe I'm paranoid and full of codeine, but, as raised on the Random Person, I Love You thread:

Over the weekend, I was suddenly struck with TEH PH34R!!!

Is it actually creepy to fantasise romantically or sexually about people you don't even know? Or is it just normal?

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm having a crisis of faith or something, like my whole life is based on a lie.

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Only creepy if you talk about them incessantly.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sooner or later you're going to run out of attractive people you know...

Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Is all compulsive behaviour creepy?

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

What I don't get is if you just look at someone wistfully on the tube or whatever, then that's fine. But if you follow them home and wait outside their house and stare into their bedroom window for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours, then apparently all of a sudden that's "creepy".

James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

One place I worked for a year and a half, I was told on the last day I was there that a particular girl had a crush on me. Apparently, it was common knowledge but I was quite glad I didn't know (me being married, and getting on well with her without actually fancying her anyway)

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Of course it isn't creepy to have a crush, how else would people come and chat you up and save you from a life of singledom? But yes, obsession is creepy. Compulsive behaviour isn't creepy necessarily creepy, but when it starts to impinge on the life of another, that's creepy.

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm not talking about that kind of thing.

More like, is it creepy to remember someone in a crush situation, and use them as masturbation fantasy material? I mean, fantasies are your own business, right? You can fantasise about whatever you like when you have a wank.

But then suddenly I felt terribly guilty about it - and not the usual Catholic School Girl guilt about sex/masturbation/etc. but actual guilt in terms of "how would *I* feel in the unlikely event that some stranger was wanking over me?" OK, I wouldn't know about it, so it would be OK. But still. I started wondering if it was creepy.

Then again, I'm sure there are those who would say it was creepy to talk about wanking or fantasies on ILX, fullstop. Whatever.

x-post yeah, that's the sort of thing I'm talking about, Mark.

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I worked with an almost unbearably attractive lass for the best part of four years...It was a running joke in our office that I had a crush on her...Worse still, she became my good friend - I was eventually invited to her wedding.

One of the things I love about her is that in all the commutes we took together (and there were many over the years) she didn't once mention the fact that I was quite obviously in some helpless, adoring, thrall to her...Which was sweet.

Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

it's only freaky in that situation if you tell them/others about it afterwards. e.g.

kate:"hur hur hur i saw this dude on the bus the other day and i totally went home a cracked one off"
dude:"holy shit"

ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it never occurred to me until you said that that she might have been 'using' me in that manner.

Ah, what the hell, as you say, if you don't know it don't matter. Thats another reason I'm glad I didn't know.

"I thought of you last night"
"Oh did you?"
"Mmmm. Twice."

Like I say.

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

i think i've said this before but i've kind of started to hate the word "creepy," if only because i've heard it used to describe pretty much every human activity there is, from bartleby-esque passiveness to theater major extrovert annoyingness.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

hating on words is kind of creepy.

ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, but it's a convenient word. It's somewhere between "a bit strange but harmless" and "seriously disturbing stalker type behaviour, call the men in white suits now".

I guess I'm trying to say "is this something I should worry about/try to change". Blame CBT, I've overanalysing my thoughtpatterns even more than ever now.

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah good point JD. Crushes are not ANYTHING just on their own, judgement totally context-dependent. Plus you could argue that it's 'creepier' or whatever to crush on/masturbate over people you DO know and this thread could've been about that instead and oh the humanity.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

but then is it creepy to overanalyse one's thought patterns?

ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is it worse or better to have wank fantasies about people you *do* know? I mean, that's a whole nother can of worms.

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

depends whether you tell them/others about it i think.

ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

e.g.

ken "hey stevem i totally cracked one off the other night after thinking about you"
stevem "woot!"

ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think crushes on people you just see in passing and most likely won't see again are fine and kinda sweet, really, in a pathetically melancholy "waterloo sunset" sort of way.

getting crushes on people you see regularly has 'creepy' potential, but is ok as long as you don't make it embarrassingly obvious.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's what I thought. x-post.

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

stevem "i've been waiting for someone to tell me something like that all my life"
ken "er.. dude"

ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Fantasies are just that, you're not hurting anybody by including them in your thoughts/fantasies. It's creepy when you start talking about it though.

Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

STOP CREEPING ME OUT KEN

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose I'm getting led down another derailment on my own thread, but to what extent is one responsible for/should one worry about wank fantasies?

On one level, it's kind of like dreams, free association, that though one may start thinking about something or someone, the erotic imagination goes where it likes - and that's the whole point of fantasy.

I mean, as with any other sexual deviancy, it's where things stop being fantasy and start being *acted* upon that it becomes wrong.

Sorry, I am thinking wrongly today. I'm not feeling well.

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make. Should I feel guilty if I were to think about say Johnny Depp in a sexual way? of course not. They are your private thoughts so what's the problem?

Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure what point I'm trying to make, either. In fact, I should probably drop the whole thing before I end up incriminating myself.

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think the problem is when it spills out of fantasy territory and into real life. Like if some random bloke you FAP with suddenly finds out that you've been thinking about him in a manner he's not entirely comfortable with. I *know* it's not his fault, and it's natural, but it doesn't have to be explicitly stated that "I think about you when I'm wanking" as it can cause awkwardness.

I don't think it would surprise Johnny Depp to find out that some strangers fantasise about him. Occupational hazard. But I bet it weirds him out a bit too.

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I think if you're a celebrity, it's kind of par for the course that people are going to wank over you!

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljbceaUNRe1qzjujmo1_400.png

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:16 (fourteen years ago)

kind of hurt that u posted our private convo

D-40, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:19 (fourteen years ago)

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Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:20 (fourteen years ago)

if these don't sound creepy, it's because you're not reading them in the creepy voice

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:20 (fourteen years ago)

http://i52.tinypic.com/biqb83.jpg

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://i54.tinypic.com/fadbsx.jpg

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:25 (fourteen years ago)

jack nicholson's put on some weight for his new role

D-40, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:27 (fourteen years ago)

date w/ my crush tonite!!!!!! nervous and stoked!!!!

gr8080, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:27 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9nPf7w7pDI

creeeeeeeeepy

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:30 (fourteen years ago)

grady, lead off by saying "i've been thinking about you for a long time. and i always will." in a slingblade voice

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

^^^

and copy one of the above notes into a card. just give it to her and nod knowingly as she reads it. she'll be putty in your hands in no time.

ENBB, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:33 (fourteen years ago)

ok hang on i'm printing out this thread

gr8080, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:36 (fourteen years ago)

just refer to this thread during the hot date. and then, if she catches you, tell her that tbh, you're so nervous about this hot date that you're relying on the internet to feed you good lines. because the date is that important to you.

in a slingblade voice.

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:37 (fourteen years ago)

ooh, ooh, first chance you get, tell her that you can't decide if you want to die first, so you don't have to suffer through the agony of her death, or if you want her to die first so that she doesn't have to be alone.

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:38 (fourteen years ago)

it's always good to know that someone's thinking about you

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:39 (fourteen years ago)

shit i gotta print out another page now

gr8080, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:40 (fourteen years ago)

good luck on your crush date for real though!

Z S, Friday, 15 April 2011 02:44 (fourteen years ago)


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