This article is interesting in light of Mike's long-ago post about the girls' books he read as a kid. I too read Beverly Cleary's Ramona books, as well as more than one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder saga; plus, I read a few Nancy Drews to complement my reading of the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Tom Corbett, and Alfred Hitchock and the Three Investigators' book series. I believe I also read some Pipi Longstocking too...
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That is an interesting article; I guess I'm skeptical about gender generalizations like: "[Boys] don't set out looking for story and relationship. They set out looking for information."
Really? Because there's something hard-wired in male chromosomes that makes them not like stories? I just don't buy it. Then again, men are from Mars and women are from Venus. And men hate asking for directions, and talking about their feelings.
I can certainly buy that adult males may have some of these traits, but haven't we agreed by now that it's mostly (or even all) social conditioning?
I liked girl books when I was younger -- Ramona, Judy Blume, those youth-porn V.C. Andrews books. And now, as an adult, I probably still like "girl" books, at least if it means I'm reading for story, rather than information.
Reading for information sounds terribly boring.
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