# Things I have learnt from Chick Lit

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-chick-lit/399312>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 9, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-chick-lit/399312 "2007-04-09T14:36:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-chick-lit/399312/21 "2007-04-09T21:42:41Z")

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The heroine’s boss is always a posh slave-driver called something like Letitia or Olivia.

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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-chick-lit/399312/22 "2007-04-09T22:17:03Z")

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Women in their twenties have the emotional maturity of nine year olds, with a overweening sense of entitlement to everything without the least shred of compromise: if they don’t have a ruggedly handsome yet inwardly sensitive boyfriend, a glamorous job as a jetsetting fashion editor, a lavish apartment and the body and face of a Guess jeans model, this is somehow the fault of the universe. It must be put right.

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**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-chick-lit/399312/23 "2007-04-10T01:43:49Z")

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[QUOTE=Scissorjack]  
Women in their twenties have the emotional maturity of nine year olds, with a overweening sense of entitlement to everything without the least shred of compromise  
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Well, at least _that’s_ plausible, for some cases at any rate.

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-chick-lit/399312/24 "2007-04-10T02:20:13Z")

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Was **The Shell Seekers** an exception to the age limit rule?

Then too, sometimes romantic things happen to women over forty (ninety, even!) and they still like to read about it.

What I learned from chick lit: Women are always the same age on the inside.

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