Comments on: I Am Not Chick Lit http://www.banane.com/2006/11/08/i-am-not-chick-lit/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:26:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nancy http://www.banane.com/2006/11/08/i-am-not-chick-lit/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Nancy Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:39:38 +0000 http://www.banane.com/2006/11/08/i-am-not-chick-lit/#comment-542 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 <i>avec curlers</i>, but they're just as likely to be picking up motor oil as nail polish. 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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