[aresant]

Although it's from the distance past (1995) this article sheds a bit of light on the word "chick"

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

And several people and sexes are well represented with their very individualized take on the meaning of the word.

In my experience in Southern California "chick" is more or less synonymous with "dood" when referring to a third-party casually.

However it was probably a poor word choice to comment on an article that many seem to interpret as a gender discussion piece.

[weareconvo]

...any comments about the actual content of my post, or are we just going to talk about my odd use of SoCal surfer idioms for a while?

[jamesaguilar]

If you didn't mix your acidity into the content, this issue would never have come up. Hopefully this can be some kind of teachable moment for you and others who feel that extreme bluntness or rudeness have no effect on the bandwidth of a conversation. In fact, they are noise, and if you've read anything about signals processing, you know what effect this has.