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@bhoomii94 I have a kobo libra colour, I like that you can annotate and draw on it. Was worth it for me.

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@manishsinhav @MattLaneWrites Because it isn't true. Men and women write about their experiences in the same way, the only difference is the male PoV is seen as the human experience and the female PoV is other.

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@estherzelda0514 I am currently reading about the history of beans and whenever you say you're a reader to men they will say "WHAT MINOTAUR PORN ARE YOU READING"

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@ConradBastable Maybe I'm being a doomer, but it just feels like we are moving to a more illiterate society and reading as a pastime is slowly dying out.

I don't think it's reversible when ppl spend so much of the their spare time on their phones which also destroys attention spans.

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@lampwright4 @Mr_Boffin Outside of something very good, like Austen, I have never had an interest in romance. I think the automatic assumption that all girls/women want to read it is odd.

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@magicinthealps The men on this site make my skin crawl, genuinely repugnant.

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@hbolton I've been saying all day it took from the 1960's to a few years ago for kids books to go from male dominated to female dominated.

They did not want to let that audience go, boys haven't been reading for a long time and adult men love playing victim.

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Americans show heartwarming movies on Christmas Day and Brits gather round to see who's going to die on Eastenders.

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what do americans think christmas in the UK actually is? i keep seeing "this is so christmas in the UK coded" what does that mean

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@butleriano If a few sex scenes makes something porn then the overwhelming majority of tv shows & movies are porn.

HBO is just wall to wall hardcore pornography. Game of Thrones is porn.

Actual erotica is a small share of the market. Most romance is not wall to wall sex.

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@ElviraLuUnLivre to turn off the playstation first and they don't want to.

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@ElviraLuUnLivre When I was growing up, my mum read to me and my brother, took us to the library every week, bought us books etc.
I read many, he read about 2 our entire childhood. Most books had male leads then, he just prefered videogames.

There are plenty of books for boys but they have

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@alziclio @Kinkerbell__ Not even old stuff, 75% of kids books had male leads till 5/10 years ago.

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@ChrisOhnimus @2ProbablyNever Men like saying that men are interested in things and women are interested in people when it paints men in a good light, but not when someone points out this is why girls like fictional stories and boys like tech.

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@HaltsSpider @jnoisecat So anything that isn't 100% action even when its about men, is for girls and we're wondering why boys prefer video games?

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I have never read currently published books, so I am very baffled at the "if something wasn't straight from the printer there's nothing for me" you can still buy 5 year old books in Barnes & Noble? What's wrong with those books? If they sell well they'd release more.

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@SirEdvin It's because men have been granted full humanity and seen as the default of humanity for all of history, whereas women are other, the sex class.

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@AshieDeathPale @PagesUnbound @hilarym99 I don't read them but the men are saying they're gay now so boys can't read them.

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@st_louis_stan @Etanarachel If female protagonists outnumber male ones 2 to 1, how does that equate to none about boys?

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@MissesDread No the blue haired lesbians will kill them if they try to write.

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@AndrewWittstadt The key part they're missing is that while most readers are women, most women don't read.
The publishing industry is desperately catering to romance readers since that's the only thing keeping the lights on.