Grrl

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). ❋ Glenn Dunks (2009)

Aren't you supposed to spell it "grrl" when you use it like that? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

My philosophy's always been that the way to confront gender barriers is to stop drawing lines, and that's why I've always strongly aimed to be "person writing about games who is, among other things, female," rather than to really stress the whole grrl-power thing. ❋ SVGL (2009)

The dialogue is okay for most of the characters, but then we'll have random things like a 14-year-old "riot grrl" dramatically saying "What are you saying?" or a block paragraph written in Stephen King's explanatory voice that, I promise, is actually the voice of a mourning housewife. ❋ Intertribal (2010)

Yes, even this science grrl sometimes wishes against reality. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Click Track (2010)

It seems like every other story in the past month had a science grrl at its core. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I predict that it will achieve the accolade of inclusion in the OED well before such redundant items as "grrl". ❋ Unknown (2011)

(I hear ST is releasing a study on the latter, and will reserve judgment until I've read it.) local grrl ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's aimed at grrls, because she's a very techno-savvy grrl, and it seems like grrls are underrepresented in cyberspace. ❋ Frankwu (2009)

What it looks like is a stereotypical 'grrl power' book, and I can't imagine that the type of women that this book epitomizes even knows what a comic book is, let alone would be remotely interested in it. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the end of its nearly 10-year run the band had morphed from scrappy riot grrl punks to a full-fledged rock-and-roll freight train. ❋ David Malitz (2010)

Seeing Gambit do his card trick and weild his staff just made the fan-grrl inside me squee. ❋ Lyda222 (2009)