Rebecca Swain, blogging at the Orlando Sentinal, has posted about this anonymous & rather painful rant, Chick Lit is Hurting America.

Swain writes

The argument is this: Chick lit is a type of ideological state apparatus used by the elite classes as a tool to systematically oppress women in lower classes and is bad for literature in general because it takes up precious shelf space that could be dedicated to serious literature.

This is extrapolated into an argument that seems to suggest that chick lit will eventually bring down culture as we know it.

Oh. My. Sweet. Lord.

Bridget Jones, I hardly knew ye . . .

[UPDATE: link no longer works, sorry…]