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I Am Not Chick Lit

Started by banane · 1 year ago

Breaking news… got an SMS from the Real Jelly (she’s aliiiiiive!) about how she’s in Target, and saw our friend’s book for sale.

The book? “This Is Not Chick Lit”. The friend? Elizabeth (link to the right on blogroll). Oh so many feelings… pride! Go Beth! Sadness… are we the women in curlers roaming the aisles, [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • At what point does the descriptive "chick" become derogatory? If it means writing by women, for women, that alone shouldn't earn it a critical classification.

    It seems that when just women socialize, it's deemed 'chick talk', which I find funny, since I pretty much speak about the same subjects with my guy friends as I do with my women friends. In fact, more 'war of the sexes' talk gets dished with certain guy friends than between the girls.

    All that aside, I'll check out the book. Anthologies of good fiction, they're right up my alley, whether penned by chicks or otherwise!
    Congrats to your friend for scoring the shelfspace at Target, too. Maybe our demographic IS in there with avec curlers, but they're just as likely to be picking up motor oil as nail polish.

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