Chick Lit Forever!
Don't worry. I still hate romance novels. I still disdain fem lit. I still think Darcy is a girl, and Bridget Jones would have done better if she had kept her diary to herself. And I only read Gossip Girl so I can be ahead of the T.V. show... And you know why? It's not because I'm a chauvinist. I mean, not only. It's because George Eliot herself said I should, and I don't dare disagree with her.
Her essay "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" is hilarious, and it still applies to almost every book in the genre, as well as most movies of the romantic comedy variety. Nobody who endeavors to teach, critique, or even chat about scribblings by the decorative sex can afford not to have read it. So do. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll wish it weren't so true. And you can blame your prejudices on me. Best of all worlds.
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I wrote a stinging comment in response to this and then backspaced it out of guilt. Consider yourself reprieved.
Everyone please pray for this member of the decorative sex who is beginning PhD comps October 6th.
But I love it when girls get sassy... it's sort of titillating. So no guilt next time, please.
(And you know Georgie and I are right about chick lit. Deep in your heart you do.)
Jeremy said the other day that you'd been reading your pretty little head off for these comps... all joking aside, I think we're all very proud of you for beating us all there. Blow 'em away!
"The DECORATIVE SEX"???
Well, only in the upper classes. In the toiling estates, everyone's a drudge.
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