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Giving "chick flicks" flack
An L.A. Times story tackles the problematic labeling of "chick flicks."
Rebecca Traister [2005-11-13]

  • Chick flicks = pink

    This story reminds of something I saw on Sports Center last night (yes, "chicks" do watch ESPN). The University of Iowa has a pink visitors' locker room, with pink showers, pink carpets and pink urinals (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9517000/). It refers, of course, to the idea that the worst thing you could call a guy is a girl. (Left unexamined is the idea that men are so easily threatened.) Chick lit and movies are just more of the pink.

    -- I'd rather not say
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    Monday, November 14, 2005 05:55 AM
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