@Perrid13 I was obsessed with Count of Monte Cristo in middle school too and I was a girl. It’s one of my favorite books; I have a tattoo of it. I was still able to relate to the story in an old book and the male main character
@omgmaddie has very low expectations for boys’ intelligence
@JestersWar@ellekarmawrites The majority of the books are focused on Katniss and her survival, not romance
If boys “can’t” relate to a book that fits all their genre requirements just because the MC doesn’t have a penis, you need to blame the patriarchy, not contemporary publishing
@Conrguy@natsfert Because our tax dollars should go towards making all public schools better, not going into the pocket of unaccredited for-profit venture capitalists or religious institutions
@you_donotyield@JagoSev8th@forestofcake Yup, there was a critic who called Dostoevsky’s work “below criticism”, which is 19th century for “slop”
I can’t think of another era in all of history where people became willingly illiterate because they didn’t like the quality of the contemporary literature being published
@JestersWar@ellekarmawrites How is fighting against a dystopian regime not about “male struggles”? Gale, Peeta, Haymitch, Plutarch, Finnick, Beetee were all struggling
Also I’m unclear how Katniss’s struggles & aspirations to survive and take down the Capitol are so gendered that boys can’t possible relate
@mai_kohar@hotgirlsooya The US education system was never hard science, it was always humanities based.
Also if you’re suggesting girls can’t learn hard science and boys can’t learn humanities, that’s a whole separate sexist issue
@guituary@ellekarmawrites Obviously women still learned to read and enjoyed reading even when the books were all “male books”, so why are men so weak that they’re willingly becoming illiterate after only 20 years of gender equality in publishing?