LUCY-ANN HOLMES: WHY I LOVE CHICK LIT

The founder of No More Page 3 on why chick lit is the best, despite its embarrassing name People despair at the term ‘chick lit’ and I can understand this. If someone called me ‘chick’ to my face, I’d ask them if they were feeling all right: 'A chick? As in a baby chicken? What if I call you ‘puppy’? Is that not a bit patronising and infantalising?' Imagine if we’d called a genre of literature aimed at men ‘puppylit’?  You’re right, it couldn’t sound more condescending if it tried. It’s also impossible to do any ‘puppylit’ imagining without first completely swapping the power structures that have been in place for hundreds of years.  Men would have had to be denied a vote and kept in the home while women did the ‘world leader-y stuff’ – then it’s a bit easier to see how the less ‘important’ half of society could be referred to with language used for cute animals or pets. READ MORE >