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The "Dirt" on Hit Girl

By Dan Horn
April 26, 2010 - 17:07

Earlier today, just moments before airing a special news report devoted to teaching tragically helpless Californians how to check their automobiles' oil levels, Fox 5 San Diego eagerly dove on the not-really-a-news-scoop grenade that is the latest cultural trend, "dirty girls," so dubbed by many a mainstream media outlet.

"Dirty girls" references a growing percentage of American women who just can't seem to outgrow their sorority house binge-drinking glory days. Dirty girls usually fall into one (or both) of two categories: (1) those who share the same meat-headed, knuckle-dragging social characteristics of their phallus-bearing counterparts, or (2) those who are simply train wreck sleaze-bags. In Fox 5's finger-pointing flurry, magazine columnist and TV personality Chelsea Handler and the comic-book-to-movie character Hit Girl from Kick-Ass were tagged as two of the movement's poster children.

Handler may be somewhat of an outspoken lush, but, being a brilliantly witty and scathing social commentator puts her so far removed from the "dirty girls," Fox's label doesn't seem to stick. I mean, come on. Chelsea's made a career out of verbally berating the very women the news program lumped her in with.

As for Hit Girl, if being an extremely badass, well-trained, and disciplined crime-fighter makes you "dirty," then what do you call degenerate "role-models" like Lindsay Lohan, or famous-for-being-rich-and/or-being-in-a-sextape pop-culture parasites like Kim Kardashian? I'm just saying...

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