The term must have been widely enough used in early spring of 2000 because a journalist used it in a fairly knowledgeable way in the article [[Gross encounters: on the way to writing a profile of Paul Gross, the author discovers his fans are the real story. Reflections on celebrity worship, Internet love and Canada as the Holy Land]]: "The women seem tolerant of each other's "squicks" -- what turns one on grosses out another." | The term must have been widely enough used in early spring of 2000 because a journalist used it in a fairly knowledgeable way in the article [[Gross encounters: on the way to writing a profile of Paul Gross, the author discovers his fans are the real story. Reflections on celebrity worship, Internet love and Canada as the Holy Land]]: "The women seem tolerant of each other's "squicks" -- what turns one on grosses out another." |