What happened to the adventure books for boys and men that used to be so prevalent once upon a time? Did they get replaced by other media? Pushed out by female domination? Dropped by big companies for all the typical political reasons?
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I'll throw out the devil's advocate here and say that publishing became female oriented because that's literally the largest market for it. Once technology advanced enough to give women free time, reading became one of their biggest pastimes and it hasn't left since. Whereas most men who were ever into reading grew out of it as they aged as they instead went on actual adventures instead.
Its basic capitalism, and also why the "young adult" genre, AKA the only time boys and girls intersect as a market, is the most popular by a long shot.
Publishing companies have been somewhat dominated by women for decades, but it only became more absolute in the last 20 years. Worse still, they're probably rife with danger hair millennials who became utterly warped and deranged after all the communist-feminist grooming in university.
Longer than that. So publishing for the most part is rather low paying. It mostly attracted women that wanted jobs but didn't need jobs. You come from an upper class background and/or have a high earning husband then it makes it ok to take a job that on its face seems glamorous but pays terribly because you literally don't need the money.