Keep this in mind the next time you see the claim that men hardly read compared to women. If you look at the sales numbers, women are mostly reading porn like harlequin romances, 50 shades, and the stuff from the video. And that's not even getting into the bizarre fanfiction they're into. Men, on the other hand, will simply watch a video instead of spending hours reading paperback porn.
The ratio of male to female readers probably balances out to about even if you didn't count smut or YA. The amount of women that read romance and exclusively YA books makes up most of the reading market.
A lot of modern stats are rooted in deliberately incorrect categorization. Women read more than men - if you consider smut to be “reading”. Half of gamers are women - if I you count a bunch of mobile non-games. The most profitable games are live service with loads of MTX - which is definitely not gambling masquerading as video games.
It's insane. We're at a point in history where there is literally no road map to copy, and retards are still doing things deliberately wrong just because it makes them money. Then they convince themselves that it's everyone else who's wrong because the money they made proves they did the right thing by lying.
You can trace a direct line from the popularity of Harry Potter to the demise of YA. Not that Harry Potter was girl power romance slock but it created a whole generation of readers who only would read YA and then it became twilight and the hunger games.
I dunno, there's something to that. I came across this video the other week and I'd say there's a plausible case to be made that modern literature just isn't being produced for a male audience, so men have just sort of tuned out.
Keep this in mind the next time you see the claim that men hardly read compared to women. If you look at the sales numbers, women are mostly reading porn like harlequin romances, 50 shades, and the stuff from the video. And that's not even getting into the bizarre fanfiction they're into. Men, on the other hand, will simply watch a video instead of spending hours reading paperback porn.
The ratio of male to female readers probably balances out to about even if you didn't count smut or YA. The amount of women that read romance and exclusively YA books makes up most of the reading market.
A lot of modern stats are rooted in deliberately incorrect categorization. Women read more than men - if you consider smut to be “reading”. Half of gamers are women - if I you count a bunch of mobile non-games. The most profitable games are live service with loads of MTX - which is definitely not gambling masquerading as video games.
It's insane. We're at a point in history where there is literally no road map to copy, and retards are still doing things deliberately wrong just because it makes them money. Then they convince themselves that it's everyone else who's wrong because the money they made proves they did the right thing by lying.
Exactly. If you manipulate the definitions you can warp the numbers into whatever you want them to be.
Women destroyed YA. You no longer get engaging and sometimes gritty stories. Instead it's girl power romance slock
You can trace a direct line from the popularity of Harry Potter to the demise of YA. Not that Harry Potter was girl power romance slock but it created a whole generation of readers who only would read YA and then it became twilight and the hunger games.
I honestly don't think you can blame Harry Potter. I'd say that Hunger Games is almost solely responsible because of the clones it spawned
I dunno, there's something to that. I came across this video the other week and I'd say there's a plausible case to be made that modern literature just isn't being produced for a male audience, so men have just sort of tuned out.
Modern literature may be trash, but we still have old books.