@pasztecinka To play devil's advocate, a lot of people are obviously going to be given GTA 6 for Christmas.
It's a lot easier to ask someone to buy you GTA 6 than a playstation voucher to buy GTA 6
Shockingly, when you read more than one book a year, you have plenty of room in your reading list to enjoy both trashy romance novels AND quality pieces of literature. Itโs called having range!
I read prolifically as a child, itโs basically all I ever did, and I read books with both male and female protagonists. Maybe itโs just my feminine psyche, but I donโt think thereโs a male inability to enjoy books with female characters. This is a targeted anti-boy campaign.
Since everyone on here seems to be talking about men and boys not reading I figured I'd do the part of a good son and recommend people to check out my father's historical fiction novels
https://t.co/PDfmXMbCeM
@Critical_Scribe The solution is to try and push men and boys to indie authors
There's plenty of independent authors writing books that do appeal to men. They aren't necessarily in your retail stores, but they are on amazon making ebooks
@CulturalAlan And the worst thing is, you walk into the 2nd hand bookstore next door and it's a pretty even split of books marketed to men, women or both
"Teach your boys to read stories about girls, for girls, by girls"
I was at a Barnes and Noble recently and the entire sci-fi section was just one six foot long bookshelf.
At the entrance of the store, you are surrounded by aisles and aisles of wrapping around bookshelves filled with pastel colored covers, and books with titles that all follow the same naming convention "Something of Something" usually with the word thorn, rose, blood, court, crow, in various orders.
90% of those books are about women, for women, by women and they have all come out in the last decade. This trend is across all age brackets.
Sure there are male authors writing for male interests, but they get a tiny fraction of shelf space compared to female authors. They also get a fraction of the publishing deals. So I walk into a bookstore that is filled with books for people who are not me, then I'm walking out.
If you're looking for new fiction to read, and you are a man, the absolute, absolute, absolute last place you should look is the bookshop's 'staff recommends' shelf.
There is no lack of books with boy protagonists doing boy things. Boys stopped reading because ever since girls started outperforming them in school, they now believe that reading is gay
@CalamityPink I don't disagree with this, but manga and comic books in general is reading.
I've heard many times, myself included, of men who were reading comics and eventually started reading prose fiction, especially manga since manga are based off light novels
If I had art displayed in a museum and it scared a bitch so much that she spent 10 minutes literally crying on camera over it, I'd probably cum instantly
@Mellow24x@Sareniia That would be fine, if the combat was fun. But it's just stand there and watch these dude's whack each other
Aggroed more than 1 guy? You dead
Their number bigger than yours? Your probably dead
Game got shit combat, is nothing but combat and has no rizz too
@AnimediaHQ Did you actually watch these or just the youtube essays?
GITS: SAC is a police procedural. It's great, but it's about as deep as a kiddie pool. The movies, you might have a point with, but not SAC
Perfect Blue's storytelling is clear as day