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Years ago, I remember seeing some kind of interactive flash thing that had a tree of subgenres of what is now known as EDM - House, Acid House, Rave, Breakbeat, Drum & Bass, Jungle, etc - with examples and definitions. It was quite eye-opening given that I hadn't heard of about half of them.
If any kind of subgenre classification is helpful to someone then what's the problem?
That said, I do think there is a bit of ghettoisation involved with Women's Fiction (and I don't think it's the same as Chick Lit, although it might be a superset), like we can park this stuff over here and safely ignore it. The problem is with the name rather than the content.
I have certainly seen things (jokingly) described as Dad-Lit: Sharpe, Reacher, that kind of thing. It's not (yet) a recognised genre anywhere, I don't think.
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