I used to think the word "chick" was a word that meant, "young woman or girl." Now I think it must be a prefix meaning "boring, stupid or embarrassing."

Chick movies, chick rock and chick lit (that's literature, of course) have mostly been, at best, uninteresting and, at worst, insipid - to the point that I wish I was swinging a penis instead of carrying around this box.

Although there isn't much that interests me in the way of female-authored film or books, there is a lot of good girl-made music out there. The problem is that girl bands, good or bad, push the fact that they are female so much that whether they are actually good or not seems unimportant.