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  • There's the "token black" (usually sassy, calls the main female character "grrl"), the "token asian" (usually works with computers and uses chopsticks to eat every meal) and the "token fat friend" (rare because pretty people tend to always have pretty friends, but this token is usually only there to, indeed, make the lead look prettier).

    Archive 2009-12-01 Glenn Dunks 2009

  • There's the "token black" (usually sassy, calls the main female character "grrl"), the "token asian" (usually works with computers and uses chopsticks to eat every meal) and the "token fat friend" (rare because pretty people tend to always have pretty friends, but this token is usually only there to, indeed, make the lead look prettier).

    The Token Gay Glenn Dunks 2009

  • Aren't you supposed to spell it "grrl" when you use it like that?

    "It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Yes, even this science grrl sometimes wishes against reality.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Eileen sez, For Lovelace Day, I chatted with geek-grrl guru and virtual-worlds visionary Linda Stone, who tells how she introduced Apple-like compassion to Microsoft's rough-and-ready corporate culture.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Over seven albums made between 1995 and 2005, preeminent riot-grrl band Sleater Kinney moved from scrappy punk to a bigger, more mainstream rock style.

    Review of Corin Tucker Band at the Black Cat Mark Jenkins 2010

  • Over seven albums made between 1995 and 2005, preeminent riot-grrl band Sleater Kinney moved from scrappy punk to a bigger, more mainstream rock style.

    In concert: Corin Tucker Band at Black Cat Click Track 2010

  • Yes, even this science grrl sometimes wishes against reality.

    Book Review: Pink Brain, Blue Brain by Lise Eliot 2009

  • (I hear ST is releasing a study on the latter, and will reserve judgment until I've read it.) local grrl

    Parking as Far as the Eye Can See « PubliCola 2010

  • Seeing Gambit do his card trick and weild his staff just made the fan-grrl inside me squee.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

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