ABSTRACT
After the release of Chick-Lit 2, something happened that could have set the course for chick lit to carry on as fiction that transgressed the mainstream or challenged the status quo, instead of becoming what it is now: career girls looking for love. When Chick-Lit 2 was reviewed in the Washington Post by Carolyn See, besides admitting that she sounded "like a grizzled old veteran down at the American Legion Hall with my medals clanking" when she demanded more plot, See observed, "You never saw so many wigs and crew cuts bleached white, or so many female genitalia .... Not many straight women here either. ... The National Endowment for the Arts [NEA] funded part of this enterprise, and it is couched in words and concepts that are sure to give Jesse Helms a conniption fit."
