You know the drill.
Everyone knows the drill.
The first rule of the reading club is that guys don't read.
The second rule of the reading club is that if guys do read, there's something wrong with them.
You know the rules.
You bought into them.
You pass them on like bad credit scores and head lice to your kids.
Keep it up.
Just don't tell anyone the rules.
You know them.
5 comments:
I do read but I can't really do the book club thing. I prefer to choose my own books and read them at my own pace.
But obviously guys read; I mean why else are there so many male writers?
Of course in the olden days you had genres like Westerns and Men's Adventure. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Mystery were also more male oriented, but since studies show women read more than men that's all changing.
Rules are made to be broken.
Well some rules.
**my computer and blogger are not playing well together today - so if this pops up twice please delete one**
RM -
I think the studies are off. I don't think men show an interest to filling out those "reader" studies or any kind of survey.
I've always been the big independent reader in our house while my husband was the main reader to the boys but just this last Christmas he just started to catch up and read all the books I've been buying him over the last few years. Now he has read more books than me this year alone by hundreds of pages (he read in the past but was always too busy with his job and that requires a lot of reading).
This new sprit of reading is even rubbing off on a friend of his - not quite the number of books but he's reading and that in itself is something. So yes I agree I think men are reading.
Back to the studies and changes in the genres. I think having the market flooded by women buying a certain type of YA is making it look like they are reading more than men. And really women love gabbing to someone taking a survey way more than a man.
Hey Connie,
I guess I better come clean about why I posted this bit today. Without revealing too much, I encountered something that got a lot of attention yesterday on Facebook -- a lot of chuckles were had -- and it was totally sexist and degrading toward males and reading. It was just one of those many things that we do, that people think is "okay," that helps perpetuate the myth about boys and reading and creates a culture of acceptance toward discounting a gender's abilities simply based on sex.
It's something that's still tolerated as far as bashing boys is concerned, because I know what people would say if there was a substitution with gender or ethnicity, for that matter, as far as what group was being targeted.
Anyway, I know that's not excessively clear, but sometimes people need to step back and think -- would I think this was still funny (or maybe offensive) if I substituted this (fill in the group) for that (guys, in general)?
Hopefully, you get the picture. Assigning certain intellectual characteristics on the basis of gender, ethnicity, religion, or anything else, is... well... you just know what that's called.
I try not to do it, or pass that stuff off as being funny. And if I ever do, I hope my own kids will have the guts to call me out on it.
So... boys... just remember: You are dumb. You never read. You only look at porn.
"They" said so.
How funny, I never considered your post a serious joke - just a good topic starter and considering I don't FB, I was left out of the loop and last I'm sure a lot of those boys look at those magazines for the informative news (hem hem)articles not just the pictures. At least they're reading - right? ;)
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