The YA genre for books is so utterly fucked and stuffed with girls, gays, and characters whining about racism that it's driving boys away from reading. If you're a heterosexual male 10-17 and have outgrown kid books and are looking for the next step, you're kind of fucked if you look at Young Adult. It appeals to no one but middle-aged women now.

When I was a kid in the 90's I grew up on the Biggles books - a series of daring, heroism and adventure about a WW1 fighter pilot written by.... a WW1 fighter pilot.

Even then, the process of sanitizing and pussifying children's media was WELL underway, having begun in the 50's, as you can read toward the bottom of that wikipedia article.

Today, there's basically nothing for boys that's produced in the west, that is anything more than a story about how the best thing they can do for the world is to shut up, lie down and die.

The YA genre for books is so utterly fucked and stuffed with girls, gays, and characters whining about racism that it's driving boys away from reading. If you're a heterosexual male 10-17 and have outgrown kid books and are looking for the next step, you're kind of fucked if you look at Young Adult. It appeals to no one but middle-aged women now.

When I was a kid in the 90's I grew up on the Biggles books - a series of daring, heroism and adventure about a WW1 pilot written by.... a WW1 fighter pilot.

Even then, the process of sanitizing and pussifying children's media was WELL underway, having begun in the 50's, as you can read toward the bottom of that wikipedia article.

Today, there's basically nothing for boys that's produced in the west, that is anything more than a story about how the best thing they can do for the world is to shut up, lie down and die.