Emma Camp on: "Books for Boys"

Of course books for girls--like pretty much everything else for girls...good! Everything should be maximally shifted girlward! And wymynward, ofc!

   Books for boys, however...REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

   Many have argued that pretty much all education has been "feminized." There's certainly a lot of evidence for that claim.

   Here's from the piece:

The first article to spark discussion was an essay in Slate from writer Luke Winkie. Mr. Winkie says that, as a young boy, he loved Gary Paulsen’s survival classic “Hatchet.” But he realized in adulthood that some women who were assigned the book in school absolutely hated it. As Mr. Winkie’s wife told him, “There simply has to be a better way to reach the hearts and minds of would-be incels other than, like, a story about a kid finding self-actualization with a weapon.”

facepalm

   What woke horseshit.

   First: a hatchet's a tool... But nitpicking aside: what an idiotic comment.

   Books 4 girlz!!! woooooo

   Books for boys: TOTALLY SEXIST YOU SEXIST

   At one point someone suggests that boys ought to just suck it up and "read some Judy Blume."

   Now, I'm unfamiliar with the ouvre of Ms. Blume, but I have a vague idea that it's about junior high girls or whatever being girly.

   Yeah...zero interest.

   You want to keep turning boys off of reading?

   Well, that's a great way to do it.

   OTOH, a quick search of the book Hatchet indicates that it's about a kid who survives a plane crash in Alaska or somewhere, and fights to survive...

   So, yeah...one of these books sounds awesome...the other...shoot me.

   Brace yourselves:

   People are different.

   And the average girl is different than the average boy.

   And their interests also differ.

   You'd think that feminists would have learned a lesson from the past 75 or whatever years...but you'd be wrong. They're a dim and vindictive lot. The lesson they take from the attempt to make women fit a mold made for men is: TIME FOR REVENGE, FUCKERS...LET'S SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT...

   That's a reason so few people consider themselves feminists anymore.

   Jonny Quest has been railing against the crapification of literature for at least a decade--long before it dawned on me that a lot of what she was appalled by was political correctness/wokification. It started with a kind of unfocused dissatisfaction with many of the novels she reads--and she reads a lot of novels. Then she concluded that it was mainly the absence of any actual stories--and that criticism remains. Then she began noticing the inescapable wokification...

   She has a tendency to throw away books she really hates--and I've been finding more and more books in the trash over the past several years. She now says that finding out that a book has been nominated for the Booker prize is nearly sufficient for her to avoid it...

   Anyway.

   Complaining about this problem probably won't solve it. The best way to get more books for boys out there is for men to write them. Many will be shot down by the female/woke-dominated publishing industry...but if there's a market for them, many will get through.