Comics To Film News 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... © Copyright 2002-2026 by Toon Doctor Inc. - All rights Reserved. All other texts, images, characters and trademarks are copyright their respective owners. Use of material in this document (including reproduction, modification, distribution, electronic transmission or republication) without prior written permission is strictly prohibited.