# You have a date, because Chick “dresses up” old tract! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 8, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979 "2011-03-08T23:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979/21 "2011-03-11T16:19:25Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > She sure was an _ugly_ baby. Yeah, because she’s the recycled boy-baby with a bow in her hair, playing with the same odd-looking toy. Curiously enough, both boy and girl babies had a doll, suggesting that gender stereotyping in Chick World doesn’t begin until later in childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979/22 "2011-03-11T20:14:27Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Yeah, because she’s the recycled boy-baby with a bow in her hair, playing with the same odd-looking toy. In the Creole version linked to above the baby is naked except for some kind of necklace and anklet and playing with a drum made out of a log. At least Jack has seen _Roots_ (‘he went into the forest to chop a tree to make himself a drum and that’s how the slavers cotched him’). ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979/23 "2011-03-11T21:48:05Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > In one of his tracts- [this one](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp)- a student mentions the Bible and the professor yells “I could have you jailed for that!” > [@shy\_guy](#): > > My favorite part from that one is where the professor goes batshit insane and just screams “FACTS! FACTS FACTS!” I like how the Jesus-freak kid says “isn’t losing something the opposite of evolution?” - such a stab in the heart of the professors logic! And not _completely misunderstanding the theory of evolution_ at all! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979/24 "2011-03-11T22:22:19Z")
bi\* ??? What in the world does bi\* mean? (checks footnote) Oooohhhhh! Bisexual! I would have never figured that out. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979/25 "2011-03-11T23:59:41Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I wish I had had a crazy ass professor like that. I so would have messed with his head – coming up with all kinds of fucked up theories. Please trust me on this, **Guin**. No, no you don’t wish for that. I had a really crazy ass instructor in Monterey. She was so crazy that messing with her only gave the messer, not the messee, a migraine. That class scarred all of us in it for life, I fear. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979/26 "2011-03-12T20:34:56Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > bi\* ??? > What in the world does bi\* mean? > (checks footnote) > Oooohhhhh! Bisexual! I would have never figured that out. It’s because they “don’t show what we did next”. Though I understand it’s in the Chick Deleted Scenes, though those are $16 per copy instead of 16 cents. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979/27 "2011-03-12T21:29:14Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > She sure was an _ugly_ baby. > [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Yeah, because she’s the recycled boy-baby with a bow in her hair, playing with the same odd-looking toy. > > Curiously enough, both boy and girl babies had a doll, suggesting that gender stereotyping in Chick World doesn’t begin until later in childhood. I’ve always taken the ugly **expression** that Chick puts on the baby’s face to suggest that everyone tends to be selfish and demanding from birth. All doubt was removed for me by the early pages of [_ **Bad Bob** _](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0021/0021_01.asp). The message is clear that little ones come out sinful and require early discipline to develop at all on the straight and narrow. Some of his other tracts seem to contradict that, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979.md?page=1)