Sarah Rees Brennan: lbardugo: BASICALLY i’m really angry because it seems that nowadays a...
BASICALLY i’m really angry because it seems that nowadays a lot more young adult books are geared toward girls rather than guys which is fine but i’m a guy and while guys *can* read about girls falling in love with the perfect guy while trying to save the world… it’s not really…
I don’t really see how the original post was telling women to be “silent.” Sure, there are absolutely people out there who are trying to put us down and all, but this guy was just asking for book recommendations. He says he “can read about girls falling in love” but it’s just hard for him to relate to. I totally get that. I’ve read books where a guy was describing his attraction to some girl, and I think, “Well that’s cool, but she doesn’t really do it for me. I’d rather be reading a lengthy description of the many fine physical and mental attributes of Jace Wayland through Clary’s eyes.” Girls want to read romance from a girl’s point of view, and guys want to read romance from a guy’s point of view. I don’t think that’s sexist.
He is in luck: the majority of books are still written from a guy’s point of view.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110503151607.htm
http://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/38016.html
‘half of YA award winners in the past twelve years had male protagonists, 15% had both male and female protagonists, and 36% had female protagonists’
The fact that people are saying they are ANGRY because there are now more books written about girls than there used to be (ignoring the fact there are still many about guys, and more attention is given to them) seems rather silencing of women to me.
I’m not saying it was meant that way. I’m not saying that people can’t have personal preferences, because all people do.
But think about how the world informs those personal preferences, and about the world you want to live in.
Eff to the yeah. SRB with the good sense.
