Battle of the sexes.... I'm curious

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

If a girl wants a friend to tell a co-worker that someone likes him without revealing that she's the one who likes him, that's a flash back to junior high school. And it's LAME.

If someone tells a friend that she likes a co-worker in confidence, and that friend decides to tease the co-worker about someone having a crush on him, that friend is flirting with violating a confidence without actually violating it. That is childish. And LAME.

If someone tells a friend that she likes a co-worker and specifically says not to mention anything about it to him, but the friend says something to him anyway, that's childish and a little mean. It's also totally LAME.

If two girls chat about a co-worker one of them fancies, even if it involves a bit o' recon and gossip to learn more about him, that's typical girl behavior in the work place and is a perfectly acceptable kind of high school lame, but it's not childish or LAME in all caps. Heh.