Trixie is a generally derogatoryslang term referring to a youngurbanwhite woman, typically single and in her 20s or early 30s. The term originated during the 1990s inChicago,Illinois, with a popularsatirical website dedicated to theLincoln Park Trixie Society, a fictionalsocial club based in Chicago's upscaleLincoln Park neighborhood.[1]
Trixies are described as "social climbing, marriage-minded, money-hungry young ladies that seem to flock to the upwardly-mobile neighborhood of Lincoln Park".[2] Another description states that "every town has its Trixies. They're the women withKate Spade bags for every day of the week; the ex-sorority girls still lusting after big, dumbjocks; the women who go tolaw school to find husbands."[3] The stereotypical counterparts ofTrixies, and the men they usually end up marrying, are referred to in slang asChads.[4]
Shane DuBow ofNational Geographic, reporting about the Lincoln Park Trixie Society website, wrote that theTrixie stereotype describes a "blond, late-twenties woman with aponytail who works inPR ormarketing, drives a blackJetta, getsmanicures and no-foam skimlattes", noticing that the website looked like a straight-faced parody.[5]
The termTrixie was used by some Chicago businesses: a salad being named the "Trixie Salad" at a Chicago restaurant,[6] and a hair salon named the Trixie Girl Blow Dry Bar.[7]
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