Guys and Chick Litt.

Red_Marauder

It began when my girlfriend and I moved in together back in college - a Cosmo she left lying around here, a Cecilia Ahern there. At first it was slow to develop.

But it wasn't long before the darling, although nigglingly silly, reading material of the modern 23 year old white female began to permeate my life.

I'd get home from college by myself, and all I'd think of was how things were going to turn out between Rosie and Alex... I'd titter along with the girls of "Where Rainbows End" with a hot cocoa... and wonder, did 10 tips for bigger hair apply to men too?

I suppose it was a sort of sisterly comfort. But I do admit I once turned down a night down the pub to finish "I Never Fancied Him Anyway"

So guys, would you ever read your girlfriends chick litt? Would you judge your mates for doing so?

And girls, would you care if they stole your Cosmo?

brummytom

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ottostreet

I can't read my girlfriends 'chick litt'.

who knows what shes reading?

AlmightyCushion

Red_Marauder wrote: »

But I do admit I once turned down a night down the pub to finish "I Never Fancied Him Anyway"

Was this before or after you handed your testicles to your girlfriend on a plate?

Jesus Wept

clit?

Herbal Deity

Wait, what the hell is chick litt?

Are there two Ts in literature these days?

My answer to the poll question is, if it deteriorates one's ability to spell and hence abbreviate properly, then no, it's not acceptable.

ptch.

brendansmith

Herbal Deity wrote: »

Wait, what the hell is chick litt?

You are so yesterday honey. Thats the hot new thing right now, I read it in Vouge.

mikom

Red_Marauder wrote: »

So guys, would you ever read your girlfriends chick litt?
And girls, would you care if they stole your Cosmo?

Was in town the other day, so decided I'll treat myself and splash out on a copy of Vogue.
That's me barred from Easons for the foreseeable future...

OutlawPete

You know the way sometimes you say two words and first letter on each is swapped.

Would be well embarrassing to go into Eason's (Waterstone's Brummy ) and ask where the 'Lhick Clit' section is.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Only if his other half is called Frank

Never, and I tend to keep it that way too...

bluto63

It's not acceptable if the drivel she's reading is called something such as 'I Never Fancied Him Anyway'

Dudess

OutlawPete wrote: »

Would be well embarrassing to go into Eason's (Waterstone's Brummy ) and ask where the 'Lhick Clit' section is.

A lot of fellas still wouldn't be able to find it though... :pac:

OutlawPete

I read The Time Traveler's Wife, was better than the movie.

Usually don't mind a good love story on film either, if it has a good script, I'll watch anything.

Favourite love story movie would be Frankie & Johnny, the Al Pacino and Michelle Ppffhheiereerrr one, not the Elvis one.

Also, who hasn't cried when Rob Lowe leaves Demi Moore in About Last Night and says it was a mistake to move in with her.

I'm welling up now ffs

Victor

Red_Marauder wrote: »

I suppose it was a sort of sisterly comfort. But I do admit I once turned down a night down the pub to finish "I Never Fancied Him Anyway"

At the end of a night out, while waiting for a hackney, I realised I had Cauldron in my pocket and despite some young one in the queue trying to chat me up, I stuck with the guys trying to sink an aircraft carrier.

Xavi6

Only if his other half is called Frank

The-Rigger wrote: »

clit?

I knew a Father CLINT Power....

K4t

No

One of the most intelligent guys I know, an English student, has publicly confessed his adoration for the Twilight series. They are not the most well written books around and literary snobs will of course look down upon them, but they serve a purpose and are light relief, relief which can be enjoyed by both women and men. I don't read chick lit however and hope to never feel the need do so. Give me Wuthering Heights anyday.

Edit: The answer is yes, and my friend would take anyone here in a fight fyi.

Dudess

K4t wrote: »

they serve a purpose and are light relief, relief which can be enjoyed by both women and men.

Are we still talking about the clit?

OutlawPete

K4t wrote: »

they serve a purpose and are light relief, relief which can be enjoyed by both women and men.

Dudess wrote: »

Are we still talking about the clit?

:pac:

Agricola

Wouldnt read it myself. Not because I need to bolster my macho image (sculpting a gun as i type with one hand )but because I wouldnt find it remotely interesting. It would bore me to tears. In the same way that the majority of women wouldnt read Top Gear magazine or buy the latest issue of Custom PC. Yeah, its a stereotype but that doesnt make it untrue.

OP if you like it read away.


Ya puff!

OutlawPete

OutlawPete wrote: »

You know the way sometimes you say two words and first letter on each is swapped.

Spoonerisms.

http://en.pikiwedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism

:pac:

Miguel_Sanchez

Don't read it myself but then again my girlfriend reads good books so the temptation wouldn't be there.

General Zod

Dudess wrote: »

A lot of fellas still wouldn't be able to find it though... :pac:

as long as we found what we wanted it doesn't matter :P

Wazdakka

Only if his other half is called Frank

You're a man Damnit...
Act like it.

If you're going to read all this sensitive lovey dovey chick lit crap, then it better have pictures of naked women in it..

And even then, you should only be pretending to read it so that you can look at the pictures of naked women without you'r girlfriend knowing.

There are completely legitimate books where both genders can read,
But if you are a man.. and start actually caring if X will get with Y after he cheated with Z's sister but it's ok because it was a midlife crisis.. ect..ect.. You are reading the wrong book!!
And chances are, if you've gotten that far into it..
You have The Ghey..

Oh and for all those guys that think Twilight is legitimate`Sci-fi or fantasy...

IT'S NOT!!

It's written for 13 year old girls.
If you like it, I suggest you buy some tampax little lady, Because if you've never had a period before you are probably dangerously close to getting one soon.

dr.bollocko

Only if his other half is called Frank

Vaccuous masturbatorial drivel for pre-menopausal women?
...
I'll stick with autotrader thanks.

OutlawPete

Deleted User wrote: »

Spoonerisms.

http://en.pikiwedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism

:pac:

How VERY dare you.

prinz

Red_Marauder wrote: »

So guys, would you ever read your girlfriends chick litt? Would you judge your mates for doing so?And girls, would you care if they stole your Cosmo?

Have done, only because I was in bed with the flu and didn't feel like getting up, the only thing within reaching distance was the OH's pile of crap. Weird thing is Cosmo and the likes are actually more interesting than the usual lads mags.

Herbal Deity wrote: »

Wait, what the hell is chick litt?
Are there two Ts in literature these days?

Far as I know those two were always there :rolleyes:;)

we'llallhavetea_old

OutlawPete wrote: »

I'm welling up now ffs

lmfao!

i dunno how anyone reads chick lit. its woeful sh!te. SH!TE I TELLS YE.

3qsmavrod5twfe

Only if his other half is called Frank

I have one simple rule if my OH asks me to read something, and it goes like this.

Can the plot be summarised as "One woman's struggle to <whatever>". If so I'm not reading it.*

*N.B. As always there is an exception to the rule. The exception is that if <whatever> is "lay waste to a post-apocalyptic world with her cadre of highly sexed lesbian nude Heidi Klum look-a-likes" and it is a pop-up-book I might give that the 3 to 5 minutes it would require.

Red_Marauder

No

Herbal Deity wrote: »

Wait, what the hell is chick litt?

Are there two Ts in literature these days?

My answer to the poll question is, if it deteriorates one's ability to spell and hence abbreviate properly, then no, it's not acceptable.

Litt is in reference to the latin Litterae. Such as, one might be awarded an M.Litt.
You know, Chick litt. being particularly high brow stuff, it deserves the latin.

They are not the most well written books around and literary snobs will of course look down upon them, but they serve a purpose and are light relief, relief which can be enjoyed by both women and men.

Exactly. I wouldn't consider myself dumb, but you don't have to be dumb to enjoy light entertainment... Posting in AH, for example!

Naos

Okay, okay.

I'll admit to it, I once read a Chick book

It was 2005 and I was living in Spain at the time and just fancyied something to read in English so as to give me a break from all the Spanish literature.

I had exhausted all the other books in the apartment and didn't fancy reading them twice, so stumbled across a book called 'Promises, Promises'* that a lass left after her visit, so decided to tackle that.

It started off slow and I'll admit, it was a tad embarrasing. I'd carefully hide the cover as I took it out on the train as it was a big picture of two engagement rings.

It was a thick book and I spent quite a bit of time reading it, got into it and all was great. Would Sarah** get to open her cafe and if so would it be a success? Would Jim and Anne get back together?

This however grew tiresome and my masculine side craved the ending and promised never to read another one of these books again, so I read on with much haste and some slight anticipation.

A week or so later, I go to the ending. It shocked me to say the least, my first experience with a Chick Lit and this was it.

I'm going to put a spoiler over the ending, just incase someone is reading this book at the moment:

To be continued.

I wanted to rip that book apart with absolute fury.

* Cannot think of name but was something like this.
** Characters names are made up.

Alessandra

Only if his other half is called Frank

I'm a girl and I hate everything to do with "chick lit". For the most part it stereotypes our gender as being obsessed with men and how badly they treat us. The constant need to discuss handbags and shoes just says we have little else going on in our brain. I often wonder if men realise that these books do not reflect the way every woman thinks and behaves..

pickarooney

Deleted User wrote: »

Spoonerisms.

http://en.pikiwedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism

:pac:

I find chick lit tends to fall into two categories - shining white and coated black.

tech77

Herbal Deity wrote: »

Wait, what the hell is chick litt?

Are there two Ts in literature these days?

Of course there are two t's in literature.
Of course it's "lit" and not "litt".

So you both fail.

Ticktactoe

If i seen my OH picking up a girl magazine and reading parts of it, it wouldn't bother me. I find that if he is reading it he is just having a nose at what these magazines 'think' is going on in womens heads.

Also to note, I read Top gear magazines and Comp/pc magazines. Not all women limit their reading material to love/hate relationship fiction/drivel.

Must say, if he was constantly doing it and bringing home more girly mags than i was then I would start to get worried! :eek:

tman

I ordered one of the true blood books to tide me over until the next season starts, didn't realise they were girly books until my GF started taking the piss out of me for buying it...
The bastards have taken vampires from us now as well! Pretty soon we'll have nothing left!!!:(

we'llallhavetea_old

tman wrote: »

I ordered one of the true blood books to tide me over until the next season starts, didn't realise they were girly books until my GF started taking the piss out of me for buying it...
The bastards have taken vampires from us now as well! Pretty soon we'll have nothing left!!!:(

's ok, there's a considerable amount of filth in true blood!
roll on the 26th feb!

Buford T Justice

Where's the Atari Jaguar option on this poll?

bonerm

Only if his other half is called Frank

Red_Marauder wrote: »

So guys, would you ever read your girlfriends chick litt? Would you judge your mates for doing so?

Personally I wouldn't , but a pretty little thing like you can do whatever she wants.

Sleepy

Have to say I'd consider 'The Time Travellers Wife' to be more literature than chick-lit. Very well written book and I enjoyed it.

Read Bridget Jones whilst out of reading material on a holiday once. Wanted to beat her to death with her own fluffy bunny slippers by the end of it.

The only other thing I can think of I've read that might count as "chick-lit" would be Polo by Jillie Cooper but that was more 'soft-core porn for ladies' imho.

I'll read the side of a corn flakes packet if there's nothing else around but it'll be a cold day in hell before I read a Georgina Ahern "novel".

ScumLord

Womens mags are awful, they don't even have nice looking birds in them. All the models are usually some sort of stick thin Heroin addict looking yolk.

pickarooney

pickarooney wrote: »

I find chick lit tends to fall into two categories - shining white and coated black.

Indeed, most of them seem like they were written by Brad and Angelina's kid, Shiloh Pitt.

Victor

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Where's the Atari Jaguar option on this poll?

Surely it would be more a "widowed and remarried" or "jilted at the alter" option?

pickarooney

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed, most of them seem like they were written by Brad and Angelina's kid, Shiloh Pitt.

School playground's got to be tough for that kid.

Latchy

I always flick through Cosmopoliton when I'm in the doctors / dentists waiting room .There's enough intresting stuff there to satisfy all curiositys ...even if it's just temporally

GLaDOS

Only if his other half is called Frank

My woman loves Terry Pratchett and hates twilight even more than I do, so it's not really an issue for me

OutlawPete

Latchy wrote: »

I always steal Cosmopoliton when I'm in the doctors / dentists waiting room .There's enough intresting stuff there to satisfy all curiositys ...even if it's just temporally

Ahem .. fixy ..

Latchy

OutlawPete wrote: »

Ahem ...I just tear the centrefold pages out myself

Fixy

Karl Hungus

No

Meh, read whatever you like. God knows, if I gave two ****s what people thought of what I read, I'd have had to put away all the Terry Pratchett books and graphic novels years ago. "What ya reading that kids stuff for, eh?"

OutlawPete

Latchy wrote: »

Fixy

Actually, I have nicked the odd newspaper in my time from Chinese takeaways

I know they do always be a few weeks old but they always have some deadly article or news report you never read and sure .. okay, okay .. you got me, I'm a thief

Latchy

OutlawPete wrote: »

Actually, I have nicked the odd newspaper in my time from Chinese takeaways

Use to be chippys wrapped your fish and chips in newspaper for free but you couldn't read it afterwards :pac:

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I see im in a poll!