Women Debate The "Chick Lit" Label  There's a debate raging in
The Guardian. Yesterday, DJ Connell threw down the gauntlet by
suggesting that "the 'chick-lit' label does nothing for humorous
female writers already suffering exclusion from an old boys'
club." Today, a chick-lit author responds:  Connell, who
deliberately avoided using her given name, Danielle, as an
author of humorous fiction, made her argument against the label
thusly:  Why do I find the chick-lit label so offensive? Because
it not only condemns a work of humour to the ghetto of the light
and frivolous but it is also ridiculously outdated. Who in
Playboy Mansion Hell still refers to a woman as a chick? When
you call a woman a chick you diminish her as a human being and
dismiss her as something less than intelligent...."Chick"
offends me but it is the tacking on of "lit" like an accessory
that really causes my testosterone levels to spike. Whatever lit
is, it is certainly not literature. It is much lower on the food
chain, something light and