Trixie (woman)

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A Trixie is a generally derogatory slang term referring to a young urban white woman, typically single and in her late 20's or early 30's. The term originated during the 1990's in Chicago, Illinois. The term was further popularlized by a satirical Website dedicated to the Lincoln Park Trixie Society, a fictional social club based in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Trixies are typically depicted as "social climbing, marriage-minded, money-hungry young ladies that seem to flock to the upwardly-mobile neighborhood of Lincoln Park."[1] Another description calls them "the women with Kate Spade bags for every day of the week; the ex-sorority girls still lusting after big, dumb jocks; the women who go to law school to find husbands."[2]

As such, "Trixies" are not unique to Chicago but representative of a stereotyped subculture in contemporary America. According to National Geographic, this stereotype describes a "blond, late-twenties woman with a ponytail who works in PR or marketing, drives a black Jetta, gets manicures and no-foam skim lattes."[3] The equally stereotyped male counterparts of Trixies are generically given the name "Chad."