You're right! It's a less belittling, but the new label contains the same concept - separating women's fiction from the fiction genre. I notice there isn't a separate category for fiction with male main characters. Somehow women's fiction has the connotation of something less serious, in the same way that chick lit is.Kieran_Obrien wrote: โ26 Feb 2018, 16:27 "Women's contemporary fiction" kinda just sounds like a more fancy way of saying chick lit to me but how we call things changes our perspective on it, and I prefer the term to chick lit!
Do you consider the book to be Chick Lit?
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Re: Do you consider the book to be Chick Lit?
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It's true that men like to fix things. Women will offer advice, but sometimes know that the person just want someone to listen and offer support.lauren1 wrote: โ27 Feb 2018, 09:36 The Reel Sisters is a book for women. It deals with five leading ladies and their life's issues. They vent to one another and get on with life whereas, typically if a woman vents to a man, he want to "fix it" for her. In order for this book to not be "chick lit", it would have to involve men with solutions to their problems. (All my opinion.)
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I agree with this so much. Thank you! I don't think it's chick lit, but I also wouldn't classify Little Women as chick lit and probably many would. It just sounds so negative. xDKatherine Smith wrote: โ23 Feb 2018, 16:01 I don't think that the book is a chick lit because if the main characters were all guys there would not be an issue. I like that the book is delving into the lives of four young women. I agree that the book does hit many of those themes, but every book deals with some aspects of relationships.
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Ah, I see. I personally wouldn't take offence - doubt it that anyone will - but it is a nice way of seeing that point as well..Kieran_Obrien wrote: โ26 Feb 2018, 13:07When I began the thread I didn't know too much about Chick Lit so I just wanted to be careful; someone might take issue with the term itself (women = chicks has always sounded funny to me) or perhaps the term was outdated in a world where feminism is on the rise!innah96 wrote: โ26 Feb 2018, 09:58Kieran_Obrien wrote: โ22 Feb 2018, 09:23 Perhaps the term is a bit offensive, but do you consider the Reel Sisters to be Chick Lit?
I think there's maybe a bit more going on in the narrative that opens up it's genre slightly, but it does hit all the chick lit tropes!
I'm a guy and I found it reasonably enjoyable anyway!
I haven't read the book, but I wanted to point out that for me, Chick Lit doesn't associate me on anything offensive. I wonder why you would think it might be offensive for some people?
Just curious
After reading the thread though it seems to me that chick lit is just as much a marketing style as much as it is a genre.
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That is exactly what I was thinking. And also, is it insinuating that man can't read books with mostly women protagonists? I don't think that is the case. Mostly chick lit are books with a lot of romance, and even that shouldn't be the case.Emma13 wrote: โ24 Feb 2018, 10:33 It is an interesting question. Just because the main characters in a book are male, we don't assume that only men will read it, so why do we make the opposite assumption with books about women? I guess we still have this idea that the default character is a male (probably white and straight, too).
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