Literacy in men is on the decline and everybody knows why. (a high effort thread)

[johnypvpgod]

I read the entirety of ascendance of a bookworm in a single summer. 33 volumes

 

[fr0st]

dnr

decalius fan spotted

 

[fr0st]

I read the entirety of ascendance of a bookworm in a single summer. 33 volumes

This only really applies to western novels light novels in japan are male majority (which can be argued is bad however this is moreso a niche subset of literature)

 

[johnypvpgod]

decalius fan spotted

The hs dxd edit in ur signature is soo moggers omfg where did you get it from

 

[fr0st]

The hs dxd edit in ur signature is soo moggers omfg where did you get it from

Also if you like light novels you should try out seirei-gensouki-konna-sekai-de-deaeta-kimi-ni- And mushoku tensei if you havent read it already.

 

[johnypvpgod]

Also if you like light novels you should try out seirei-gensouki-konna-sekai-de-deaeta-kimi-ni- And mushoku tensei if you havent read it already.

Ive read every good ln out there. Overlord mushoku konosuba arifureta etc.

seirei gensouki mc looked cuckish

 

[fr0st]

Ive read every good ln out there. Overlord mushoku konosuba arifureta etc.

seirei gensouki mc looked cuckish

It starts off slow but it picks up later on. Also the dxd light novels are good id recommend trying them there a bit hard to find online though. Also you got any LN recommendations? ive read pretty much everything.

 

[johnypvpgod]

It starts off slow but it picks up later on. Also the dxd light novels are good id recommend trying them there a bit hard to find online though. Also you got any LN recommendations? ive read pretty much everything.

Honzuki if you haven't read it yet, brilliant worldbuilding with a unique fantasy world. one of the 10 something light novels with over 10m sales

Kumo desuga but I feel like its power fantasy and not that well written. it was still entertaining

Toaru maybe but like you have to really get into it for it to be fun. some volumes are a drudge, i dropped it thrice because the overarching story has a weak impact due to the author's obsession with the status quo.

Apothecary diaries, shangri la frontier etc etc

Those are well known, I don't know any obscure ligtnovels.

 

[fr0st]

Honzuki if you haven't read it yet, brilliant worldbuilding with a unique fantasy world. one of the 10 something light novels with over 10m sales

Kumo desuga but I feel like its power fantasy and not that well written. it was still entertaining

Toaru maybe but like you have to really get into it for it to be fun. some volumes are a drudge, i dropped it thrice because the overarching story has a weak impact due to the author's obsession with the status quo.

Apothecary diaries, shangri la frontier etc etc

Those are well known, I don't know any obscure ligtnovels.

Thanks ive read everything but honzuki so im def gonna read it. ill finish this page and go try it out

 

[johnypvpgod]

Thanks ive read everything but honzuki so im def gonna read it. ill finish this page and go try it out

You're gonna love it. It actively hides so much of the lore until it's revealed that it makes for very satisfying payoffs.

The only part i didn't like is the occasional feeling of "this is childish" during some fight scenes. The author is a woman and ig blood boiling adrenaline is not something she understands that she can replicate in writing, you could say in this context it's similar to the writing of shojo manga, but that's something you'll judge for yourself.

 

[fr0st]

You're gonna love it. It actively hides so much of the lore until it's revealed that it makes for very satisfying payoffs.

The only part i didn't like is the occasional feeling of "this is childish" during some fight scenes. The author is a woman and ig blood boiling adrenaline is not something she understands that she can replicate in writing, you could say in this context it's similar to the writing of shojo manga, but that's something you'll judge for yourself.

its fine ive read my fair share of shojo so i can suspend my male urge to see two men yelling and killing eachother

 

[longjohnmong]

click on thread about men's literacy rates. niggas talking about reading anime and fight scenes lmao

 

[fr0st]

click on thread about men's literacy rates. niggas talking about reading anime and fight scenes lmao

Scroll to literally anywhere else and you will see people talking about classical literature JFL

 

[longjohnmong]

Scroll to literally anywhere else and you will see people talking about classical literature JFL

no

 

[Hey dont talk to me]

ill read later

 

[fr0st]

no

 

[juliusorg]

Within a few years, men's reading habits have dropped tremendously. This is in part due to the publishers, yes but it's also the fault of men for allowing it to happen. Men's habits of reading fiction have gone from 35.1 percent in 2012 to just 27.7 percent in 2022 and obviously, you can infer that it must have gone down even more since then. Now if you're wondering why that is it's pretty simple. We only make books for women. Take the New York Times best-seller list. Almost all of them are written for women. They are love stories consisting of a woman protagonist "romancing" a man now women will say "Ooh what the matter with that women read too you incel!" well yes but at this rate men get disillusioned with reading due to the simple fact of there's nothing for them.


So why is it that publishers don't put out books for men? Well, the simple answer is you guessed it DEI. As much as I hate that word it is literally the cause of all of these problems. Publishers are looking for the next "feminist POC author speaking the truth" as opposed to a genuinely talented author regardless of race or gender. If you are a non-ethnic man and want to publish a book it's nearly impossible. This is in part due to politics but also the general public I'm sure we all know a person who's infantilized in the idea of a "woman intellectual" like its some merit to be a woman and to be smart. When in reality by pointing out that there is a woman who achieved something impressive you are inadvertently saying that it's uncommon for women to be smart or talented writers. Now I'm sure many of you are snorting derivatively at that last comment saying "Oh well foids are pretty stupid I mean look at all the smart guys compared to women!" now I shouldn't have to explain the fact that thinking half of the population is dumber than the other half is retarded but I will do so for an argumentative sake. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8858829/ This study outlines that men tend to overestimate intelligence as opposed to women. I think it's obvious on why so I won't go into detail but just know just because you read a Kafka book and get good grades on you're pre calc homework does not mean you in necessarily smarter than the average. Women and men have been noted to have equally comparable IQ traits however in one study they suggested that women have a higher average while men have a higher drastic measure meaning men have the smartertest and dumbest people as opposed to women. Take that as you will.


Now then leaning back to the main topic. I believe another contributing factor in the divide between men's literacy rates and women's in the general culture around literature nowadays. If you search "books" on TikTok you will one hundred percent see some fat whore with thick oval glasses rating a "spice book" Books have become synonymous with smut if you ask a girl about the latest book she read she will most likely tell you about the latest "spicy" novel that she got from booktok. I myself have experienced this first-hand im sure many of you have read my thread but to summarize it I took my cousin to the library and instead of getting an actually insightful good book she bought some fucking smut book about a king and a girl or some shit. There was an entire SECTION dedicated to these types of books. Do you understand how fucking crazy that is? A state library yes a state library a federal building funded by taxpayers is pushing porn directly in the store. And the best part? The woman didn't even ask her age and just gave it to her (she's 13)... dude gas station owners selling playboys have more morals than these whores holy fucking shit.


Moreover, the best-selling book in 2024 was "The Women" by Kristin Hannah do you want to guess where a male writer stood on this list? It was the 21st....do you understand that? Out of all the books, a male author only ranked 21st on the best sellers. And guess what? It's a remake of Huckleberry Finn. And guess what? IT WAS A FUCKING REMAKE TELLING IT THOUGH THE LENS OF THE SLAVE JIM!!! Yes! So if you want to read a male author book you need to listen through the slog of racial politics and 5th-grade satire and political commentary fun! So as you can see there are no books made for the average male they all either involve some plot about feminist ideals, female romance, gender politics, or racial commentary. And women blame men saying "Op the moids are just getting dumber! the girlies are standing up and getting smarter because the patriarchy is toppling 4B amiright?" No this is a direct result of you're campaign to shift literature from predominantly male dominated to female-dominated. I can not think of a single fiction book I have read in the past years that was contemporary. Long are the days of insightful books such as "Metamorphosis" or "war and Peace" No we have entered the dawn of porn and surface-level gender politics.



Many of you may be thinking "Oh well fr0st what about nonfiction? I've seen a lot of guys talking about that!" well that's another can of worms. As much as you may disagree fiction is necessary for the young reader. Not only can you gain immense knowledge from fiction it also sets up good habits amongst readers and gets them engaged with reading. However, if most of the fiction is targeted at women and the only fiction you can find is in the form of older novels that will dissuade men from trying it. Moreover, nonfiction has taken a drastic decline in quality over the years. The most popular nonfiction books as of now are "the anxious generation" (written about phone-based life) and "the house of my mother" which hilariously is about a fucking Youtuber kid who lived through a family channel (yes that's real look the book up) and the JFK conspiracy. Written by the authors who made the "nazi conspiracy" and best of all! "Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old" which is about women aging. Now I shouldn't have to tell you that all of these are absolutely atrocious. Compare this to "how age works" by David Crystal. or "introductory lectures on psychoanalysis" by Sigmund Freud. I mean it's ridiculous how far we have fallen from actual intellectuals writing things to the average author being a midwit housewife who started writing for fun and wrote a book about a king raping a slave or whatever "dark romance" women enjoy.


The decline in men's writing is also an integral factor we need to take into effect. Now before you dogpile on me look at it objectively. Nowadays everyone is writing a book. Whether is some Instagram health influencer or a politician it feels like every famous person is writing a book about their life. Whether it's Melania Trump or Vivek Ramaswamy everyone is keen on having a bestseller. Now the issue with this is that it clouds the book world with idiots. Many of you may wonder "Why is it that back in the day books were so much better?" well it's simple back then if you wanted to write a book you needed to be smart accomplished and have connections. Nowadays if you have 100k followers on Instagram you can get a best seller. Actual intellectuals can not get their books pushed out because of the saturation in the market. As well as of course the decline in attention span but I'll leave that to someone else. My point is people are putting too much emphasis on the author as opposed to the book. People will buy the latest robert greene book not because of the contents its because of "ooh robert greene I love him!" when in reality his books are made for midwits comprised of average middle school level psychology targeted at frat bros to "pick up bitches" it's written in a way that attracts pseudo-intellectuals. Now you may contribute this to the decline in critical thinking but honestly, I blame it on the publishing industry because like I said before the only books being released and marketed are for women so when a man finds a book targeted at him regardless of quality he will latch onto it claiming it to be gospel when in reality its utter dogshit.


My final point is the education systems push to stray themselves from reading. College students report that they can not read a book a week which is something that would have been deemed utterly foolish 30 years ago. The reason? Schools have stopped requiring intense reading exercises. and yes yes we all understand phonics etc. etc. but when was the last time "for the students on the forum" that you were required to read a whole book? You can say correct? They only ask you to read a portion of it and let's be honest you don't even do that you ask Chatgpt for a synopsis and write that. Now it's not just the fault of the students but the teachers as well because they simply have dumbed down the curriculum. They no longer create answers and questions that enforce you to actually read the book instead they structure them in a way that is deemed "more inclusive to the broader intelligence" In other words they make the questions easier because they want to be inclusive to retards. Now I'm not suggesting we should force kids to read no in fact that would do even more harm as it would build a negative connection to reading and they would see it as a chore or homework. Instead, this circles back to my main point women have the option to read for fun and men don't. Women can read academically in school and then go home and read the latest New York Times bestseller yet men don't have that luxury their only form of entertainment is to go home and play Fortnite while jerking off to femboy bdsm catboy roleplay while scrolling on TikTok. Women have marketing advertising and encouragement to read in the form of posters libraries parents etc. However, men do not have any of that almost every book ad is targeted towards women in one way or another. Of course, reading in general is on the decline im sure most of you know that Gen Alpha can't even read in the 5th grade however it's much more noticeable recreationally in men as opposed to women.



In conclusion, literature, in general, has taken a swing from emphasizing accomplished intellectual authors who write genuinely insightful meaningful pieces of media to slop written by housewives while they drink their chardonnay and schlick themselves to their bdsm rape romance books. This is also in part due to the publishing industry and school curriculum but is more pushed by the broader culture that revolves around reading and intellectualism. Women have the options of both reading for fun and reading for education however men do not have such luxuries and instead associate reading as a chore or homework. In order to change this we need more male authors making books for men about predominantly male things such as fighting dragons saving princesses going on adventures with a group of friends etc. We must also start to push reading programs for younger men and persuade them to take more literary entertainment as opposed to short-form content. But what do I know I'm just a retard who browses incel websites.

Sources.

The Men-Women Split in Reading is Real—and Persists Amid Historical Rate Declines

What does the data tell us about reading rates by gender?

www.arts.gov

Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis?

The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

www.vox.com

Gender Differences in Self-Estimated Intelligence: Exploring the Male Hubris, Female Humility Problem - PMC

Despite evidence from cognitive psychology that men and women are equal in measured intelligence, gender differences in self-estimated intelligence (SEI) are widely reported with males providing systematically higher estimates than females. This has ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Why don’t straight men read novels?

Men often read non-fiction books in the name of self-improvement – but many are reluctant to pick up works of fiction

www.dazeddigital.com

love the post lol so true, reading is law if ur above 110 iq

 

[TiktokUser]

As much as you may disagree fiction is necessary for the young reader. Not only can you gain immense knowledge from fiction it also sets up good habits amongst readers and gets them engaged with reading.

love the post lol so true, reading is law if ur above 110 iq

Reading fictional books is no different from watching movies or shows, it’s all mostly garbage slop that doesn’t benefit you. Yet for some reason, people put reading books on a pedestal, when much more emotion and symbolism can be conveyed in movies and shows.

Modern women score higher IQs than contemporary men, but not men from previous generations. This isn’t because they’ve become smarter, but because men don’t care lmao. The school system literally rewards obedience, making you sit in a classroom for six hours where you’re forced to take notes like a good goyim.

 

[TiktokUser]

Words words words anyways this is a good thing

Fiction is garbage; novels are nothing but a waste of time.

Saying that men reading novels less is a bad thing is like saying women playing video games less is a bad thing.
How is spending less time on pointless entertainment anything but a positive?
The worship of novels is entirely unjustified and absurd. They should be viewed as nothing but trash.

Exactly. Bro really wrote a whole essay just to say that women read fictional slop

 

[Comebackkid]

Reading don't provide money nor pussies

 

[JustHereToLooksmax]

I'm writing a pretty lengthy response to this, so just a heads up. Feel free to ignore or skim through it; I'm mostly writing it for me anyway.

Mirin' high effort

 

[sonar bugnar]

DEI is nigger aids

 

[Bugmaxxed]

yeah dnr

 

[PARISIEN]

I read one punch man and Baki

 

[buddhistking]

Inb4 IT'S DA JOOZ lol

 

[JustHereToLooksmax]

Inb4 IT'S DA JOOZ lol

They are getting close. Look at textrel

DEI is nigger aids

JFL
Most DEI recipients are white women and faggot white men, you have to be some form of gay to get it, the only link it has with blacks is that white SFcels and coomservatives use it against them.

 

[sonar bugnar]

They are getting close. Look at textrel

JFL
Most DEI recipients are white women and faggot white men, you have to be some form of gay to get it, the only link it has with blacks is that white SFcels and coomservatives use it against them.

Are you blind niggers are being hired all over the place now more than ever

 

[normie_joe]

Within a few years, men's reading habits have dropped tremendously. This is in part due to the publishers, yes but it's also the fault of men for allowing it to happen. Men's habits of reading fiction have gone from 35.1 percent in 2012 to just 27.7 percent in 2022 and obviously, you can infer that it must have gone down even more since then. Now if you're wondering why that is it's pretty simple. We only make books for women. Take the New York Times best-seller list. Almost all of them are written for women. They are love stories consisting of a woman protagonist "romancing" a man now women will say "Ooh what the matter with that women read too you incel!" well yes but at this rate men get disillusioned with reading due to the simple fact of there's nothing for them.


So why is it that publishers don't put out books for men? Well, the simple answer is you guessed it DEI. As much as I hate that word it is literally the cause of all of these problems. Publishers are looking for the next "feminist POC author speaking the truth" as opposed to a genuinely talented author regardless of race or gender. If you are a non-ethnic man and want to publish a book it's nearly impossible. This is in part due to politics but also the general public I'm sure we all know a person who's infantilized in the idea of a "woman intellectual" like its some merit to be a woman and to be smart. When in reality by pointing out that there is a woman who achieved something impressive you are inadvertently saying that it's uncommon for women to be smart or talented writers. Now I'm sure many of you are snorting derivatively at that last comment saying "Oh well foids are pretty stupid I mean look at all the smart guys compared to women!" now I shouldn't have to explain the fact that thinking half of the population is dumber than the other half is retarded but I will do so for an argumentative sake. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8858829/ This study outlines that men tend to overestimate intelligence as opposed to women. I think it's obvious on why so I won't go into detail but just know just because you read a Kafka book and get good grades on you're pre calc homework does not mean you in necessarily smarter than the average. Women and men have been noted to have equally comparable IQ traits however in one study they suggested that women have a higher average while men have a higher drastic measure meaning men have the smartertest and dumbest people as opposed to women. Take that as you will.


Now then leaning back to the main topic. I believe another contributing factor in the divide between men's literacy rates and women's in the general culture around literature nowadays. If you search "books" on TikTok you will one hundred percent see some fat whore with thick oval glasses rating a "spice book" Books have become synonymous with smut if you ask a girl about the latest book she read she will most likely tell you about the latest "spicy" novel that she got from booktok. I myself have experienced this first-hand im sure many of you have read my thread but to summarize it I took my cousin to the library and instead of getting an actually insightful good book she bought some fucking smut book about a king and a girl or some shit. There was an entire SECTION dedicated to these types of books. Do you understand how fucking crazy that is? A state library yes a state library a federal building funded by taxpayers is pushing porn directly in the store. And the best part? The woman didn't even ask her age and just gave it to her (she's 13)... dude gas station owners selling playboys have more morals than these whores holy fucking shit.


Moreover, the best-selling book in 2024 was "The Women" by Kristin Hannah do you want to guess where a male writer stood on this list? It was the 21st....do you understand that? Out of all the books, a male author only ranked 21st on the best sellers. And guess what? It's a remake of Huckleberry Finn. And guess what? IT WAS A FUCKING REMAKE TELLING IT THOUGH THE LENS OF THE SLAVE JIM!!! Yes! So if you want to read a male author book you need to listen through the slog of racial politics and 5th-grade satire and political commentary fun! So as you can see there are no books made for the average male they all either involve some plot about feminist ideals, female romance, gender politics, or racial commentary. And women blame men saying "Op the moids are just getting dumber! the girlies are standing up and getting smarter because the patriarchy is toppling 4B amiright?" No this is a direct result of you're campaign to shift literature from predominantly male dominated to female-dominated. I can not think of a single fiction book I have read in the past years that was contemporary. Long are the days of insightful books such as "Metamorphosis" or "war and Peace" No we have entered the dawn of porn and surface-level gender politics.



Many of you may be thinking "Oh well fr0st what about nonfiction? I've seen a lot of guys talking about that!" well that's another can of worms. As much as you may disagree fiction is necessary for the young reader. Not only can you gain immense knowledge from fiction it also sets up good habits amongst readers and gets them engaged with reading. However, if most of the fiction is targeted at women and the only fiction you can find is in the form of older novels that will dissuade men from trying it. Moreover, nonfiction has taken a drastic decline in quality over the years. The most popular nonfiction books as of now are "the anxious generation" (written about phone-based life) and "the house of my mother" which hilariously is about a fucking Youtuber kid who lived through a family channel (yes that's real look the book up) and the JFK conspiracy. Written by the authors who made the "nazi conspiracy" and best of all! "Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old" which is about women aging. Now I shouldn't have to tell you that all of these are absolutely atrocious. Compare this to "how age works" by David Crystal. or "introductory lectures on psychoanalysis" by Sigmund Freud. I mean it's ridiculous how far we have fallen from actual intellectuals writing things to the average author being a midwit housewife who started writing for fun and wrote a book about a king raping a slave or whatever "dark romance" women enjoy.


The decline in men's writing is also an integral factor we need to take into effect. Now before you dogpile on me look at it objectively. Nowadays everyone is writing a book. Whether is some Instagram health influencer or a politician it feels like every famous person is writing a book about their life. Whether it's Melania Trump or Vivek Ramaswamy everyone is keen on having a bestseller. Now the issue with this is that it clouds the book world with idiots. Many of you may wonder "Why is it that back in the day books were so much better?" well it's simple back then if you wanted to write a book you needed to be smart accomplished and have connections. Nowadays if you have 100k followers on Instagram you can get a best seller. Actual intellectuals can not get their books pushed out because of the saturation in the market. As well as of course the decline in attention span but I'll leave that to someone else. My point is people are putting too much emphasis on the author as opposed to the book. People will buy the latest robert greene book not because of the contents its because of "ooh robert greene I love him!" when in reality his books are made for midwits comprised of average middle school level psychology targeted at frat bros to "pick up bitches" it's written in a way that attracts pseudo-intellectuals. Now you may contribute this to the decline in critical thinking but honestly, I blame it on the publishing industry because like I said before the only books being released and marketed are for women so when a man finds a book targeted at him regardless of quality he will latch onto it claiming it to be gospel when in reality its utter dogshit.


My final point is the education systems push to stray themselves from reading. College students report that they can not read a book a week which is something that would have been deemed utterly foolish 30 years ago. The reason? Schools have stopped requiring intense reading exercises. and yes yes we all understand phonics etc. etc. but when was the last time "for the students on the forum" that you were required to read a whole book? You can say correct? They only ask you to read a portion of it and let's be honest you don't even do that you ask Chatgpt for a synopsis and write that. Now it's not just the fault of the students but the teachers as well because they simply have dumbed down the curriculum. They no longer create answers and questions that enforce you to actually read the book instead they structure them in a way that is deemed "more inclusive to the broader intelligence" In other words they make the questions easier because they want to be inclusive to retards. Now I'm not suggesting we should force kids to read no in fact that would do even more harm as it would build a negative connection to reading and they would see it as a chore or homework. Instead, this circles back to my main point women have the option to read for fun and men don't. Women can read academically in school and then go home and read the latest New York Times bestseller yet men don't have that luxury their only form of entertainment is to go home and play Fortnite while jerking off to femboy bdsm catboy roleplay while scrolling on TikTok. Women have marketing advertising and encouragement to read in the form of posters libraries parents etc. However, men do not have any of that almost every book ad is targeted towards women in one way or another. Of course, reading in general is on the decline im sure most of you know that Gen Alpha can't even read in the 5th grade however it's much more noticeable recreationally in men as opposed to women.



In conclusion, literature, in general, has taken a swing from emphasizing accomplished intellectual authors who write genuinely insightful meaningful pieces of media to slop written by housewives while they drink their chardonnay and schlick themselves to their bdsm rape romance books. This is also in part due to the publishing industry and school curriculum but is more pushed by the broader culture that revolves around reading and intellectualism. Women have the options of both reading for fun and reading for education however men do not have such luxuries and instead associate reading as a chore or homework. In order to change this we need more male authors making books for men about predominantly male things such as fighting dragons saving princesses going on adventures with a group of friends etc. We must also start to push reading programs for younger men and persuade them to take more literary entertainment as opposed to short-form content. But what do I know I'm just a retard who browses incel websites.

Sources.

The Men-Women Split in Reading is Real—and Persists Amid Historical Rate Declines

What does the data tell us about reading rates by gender?

www.arts.gov

Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis?

The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

www.vox.com

Gender Differences in Self-Estimated Intelligence: Exploring the Male Hubris, Female Humility Problem - PMC

Despite evidence from cognitive psychology that men and women are equal in measured intelligence, gender differences in self-estimated intelligence (SEI) are widely reported with males providing systematically higher estimates than females. This has ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Why don’t straight men read novels?

Men often read non-fiction books in the name of self-improvement – but many are reluctant to pick up works of fiction

www.dazeddigital.com

Very seldom, if at all do I read a single pixel of a .org essay.

But I read every word.

I bought a kobo recently and put away my Steamdeck for bedtime.

Got some Stephen King, some old Roald Dahl books, and even classics I've never read like Fahrenheit 451, and Mice and men.

Been a long while since I got back into reading and man has my attention span dwindled due to tiktok rot, but I'm grinding through them the best I can

 

[JustHereToLooksmax]

Very seldom, if at all do I read a single pixel of a .org essay.

But I read every word.

I bought a kobo recently and put away my Steamdeck for bedtime.

Got some Stephen King, some old Roald Dahl books, and even classics I've never read like Fahrenheit 451, and Mice and men.

Been a long while since I got back into reading and man has my attention span dwindled due to tiktok rot, but I'm grinding through them the best I can

I am reading on black holes and quantum physics rn. Will read Animal Farm and read 1984 again soon.

 

[fr0st]

Very seldom, if at all do I read a single pixel of a .org essay.

But I read every word.

I bought a kobo recently and put away my Steamdeck for bedtime.

Got some Stephen King, some old Roald Dahl books, and even classics I've never read like Fahrenheit 451, and Mice and men.

Been a long while since I got back into reading and man has my attention span dwindled due to tiktok rot, but I'm grinding through them the best I can

Thank you for reading good luck on your reading endeavors it gets much easier as you continue to read eventually you will be able to finish books in days.

 

[ominion]

Can you post this in tiktok form with a backgroud video of fortnite ??



DNR

 

[JustHereToLooksmax]

Can you post this in tiktok form with a backgroud video of fortnite ??



DNR

Exactly his point JFL

Please tell me this is sarcasm

 

[ominion]

Exactly his point JFL

Please tell me this is sarcasm

Bro, that's what everybody is consooming nowadays. i meant it seriously btw

 

[deadmanwalking]

This forum doesn't deserve this thread, well formulated. Indeed it is a big problem that is directly caused by the general societal decay and rot which is caused by, you name it, the international Jew.

 

[deadmanwalking]

Never mind you're a homo faggot weeb cosplayer, why even post this thread if you're part of the problem?

 

[fr0st]

Never mind you're a homo faggot weeb cosplayer, why even post this thread if you're part of the problem?

weeb is fine but homo? calm down

 

[deadmanwalking]

weeb is fine but homo? calm down

I'm not even going to argue, you're a cognitive dissonant homosexual that indulges into gender inversive gay porn. I notice this, nearly all anime profile picture users are all homosexual pedophilic groypers

 

[thales20]

Cant wait for faggots to type "DNR" and literally prove my point.

sorry bro but



bump for the effort tho

 

[looksmaxxed]

literacy is simply not important in a declining society. the people who survive will be violent men whose intelligence is innate and adapted to harsh unforgiving environments and not derived through education or training.

 

[fr0st]

literacy is simply not important in a declining society. the people who survive will be violent men whose intelligence is innate and adapted to harsh unforgiving environments and not derived through education or training.

Society wont devolve into neo tribalism so i dont get your point there will always be room for scholars thats how society evolves

 

[wishIwasSalludon]

Dnr

 

[Gaygymmaxx]

Within a few years, men's reading habits have dropped tremendously. This is in part due to the publishers, yes but it's also the fault of men for allowing it to happen. Men's habits of reading fiction have gone from 35.1 percent in 2012 to just 27.7 percent in 2022 and obviously, you can infer that it must have gone down even more since then. Now if you're wondering why that is it's pretty simple. We only make books for women. Take the New York Times best-seller list. Almost all of them are written for women. They are love stories consisting of a woman protagonist "romancing" a man now women will say "Ooh what the matter with that women read too you incel!" well yes but at this rate men get disillusioned with reading due to the simple fact of there's nothing for them.


So why is it that publishers don't put out books for men? Well, the simple answer is you guessed it DEI. As much as I hate that word it is literally the cause of all of these problems. Publishers are looking for the next "feminist POC author speaking the truth" as opposed to a genuinely talented author regardless of race or gender. If you are a non-ethnic man and want to publish a book it's nearly impossible. This is in part due to politics but also the general public I'm sure we all know a person who's infantilized in the idea of a "woman intellectual" like its some merit to be a woman and to be smart. When in reality by pointing out that there is a woman who achieved something impressive you are inadvertently saying that it's uncommon for women to be smart or talented writers. Now I'm sure many of you are snorting derivatively at that last comment saying "Oh well foids are pretty stupid I mean look at all the smart guys compared to women!" now I shouldn't have to explain the fact that thinking half of the population is dumber than the other half is retarded but I will do so for an argumentative sake. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8858829/ This study outlines that men tend to overestimate intelligence as opposed to women. I think it's obvious on why so I won't go into detail but just know just because you read a Kafka book and get good grades on you're pre calc homework does not mean you in necessarily smarter than the average. Women and men have been noted to have equally comparable IQ traits however in one study they suggested that women have a higher average while men have a higher drastic measure meaning men have the smartertest and dumbest people as opposed to women. Take that as you will.


Now then leaning back to the main topic. I believe another contributing factor in the divide between men's literacy rates and women's in the general culture around literature nowadays. If you search "books" on TikTok you will one hundred percent see some fat whore with thick oval glasses rating a "spice book" Books have become synonymous with smut if you ask a girl about the latest book she read she will most likely tell you about the latest "spicy" novel that she got from booktok. I myself have experienced this first-hand im sure many of you have read my thread but to summarize it I took my cousin to the library and instead of getting an actually insightful good book she bought some fucking smut book about a king and a girl or some shit. There was an entire SECTION dedicated to these types of books. Do you understand how fucking crazy that is? A state library yes a state library a federal building funded by taxpayers is pushing porn directly in the store. And the best part? The woman didn't even ask her age and just gave it to her (she's 13)... dude gas station owners selling playboys have more morals than these whores holy fucking shit.


Moreover, the best-selling book in 2024 was "The Women" by Kristin Hannah do you want to guess where a male writer stood on this list? It was the 21st....do you understand that? Out of all the books, a male author only ranked 21st on the best sellers. And guess what? It's a remake of Huckleberry Finn. And guess what? IT WAS A FUCKING REMAKE TELLING IT THOUGH THE LENS OF THE SLAVE JIM!!! Yes! So if you want to read a male author book you need to listen through the slog of racial politics and 5th-grade satire and political commentary fun! So as you can see there are no books made for the average male they all either involve some plot about feminist ideals, female romance, gender politics, or racial commentary. And women blame men saying "Op the moids are just getting dumber! the girlies are standing up and getting smarter because the patriarchy is toppling 4B amiright?" No this is a direct result of you're campaign to shift literature from predominantly male dominated to female-dominated. I can not think of a single fiction book I have read in the past years that was contemporary. Long are the days of insightful books such as "Metamorphosis" or "war and Peace" No we have entered the dawn of porn and surface-level gender politics.



Many of you may be thinking "Oh well fr0st what about nonfiction? I've seen a lot of guys talking about that!" well that's another can of worms. As much as you may disagree fiction is necessary for the young reader. Not only can you gain immense knowledge from fiction it also sets up good habits amongst readers and gets them engaged with reading. However, if most of the fiction is targeted at women and the only fiction you can find is in the form of older novels that will dissuade men from trying it. Moreover, nonfiction has taken a drastic decline in quality over the years. The most popular nonfiction books as of now are "the anxious generation" (written about phone-based life) and "the house of my mother" which hilariously is about a fucking Youtuber kid who lived through a family channel (yes that's real look the book up) and the JFK conspiracy. Written by the authors who made the "nazi conspiracy" and best of all! "Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old" which is about women aging. Now I shouldn't have to tell you that all of these are absolutely atrocious. Compare this to "how age works" by David Crystal. or "introductory lectures on psychoanalysis" by Sigmund Freud. I mean it's ridiculous how far we have fallen from actual intellectuals writing things to the average author being a midwit housewife who started writing for fun and wrote a book about a king raping a slave or whatever "dark romance" women enjoy.


The decline in men's writing is also an integral factor we need to take into effect. Now before you dogpile on me look at it objectively. Nowadays everyone is writing a book. Whether is some Instagram health influencer or a politician it feels like every famous person is writing a book about their life. Whether it's Melania Trump or Vivek Ramaswamy everyone is keen on having a bestseller. Now the issue with this is that it clouds the book world with idiots. Many of you may wonder "Why is it that back in the day books were so much better?" well it's simple back then if you wanted to write a book you needed to be smart accomplished and have connections. Nowadays if you have 100k followers on Instagram you can get a best seller. Actual intellectuals can not get their books pushed out because of the saturation in the market. As well as of course the decline in attention span but I'll leave that to someone else. My point is people are putting too much emphasis on the author as opposed to the book. People will buy the latest robert greene book not because of the contents its because of "ooh robert greene I love him!" when in reality his books are made for midwits comprised of average middle school level psychology targeted at frat bros to "pick up bitches" it's written in a way that attracts pseudo-intellectuals. Now you may contribute this to the decline in critical thinking but honestly, I blame it on the publishing industry because like I said before the only books being released and marketed are for women so when a man finds a book targeted at him regardless of quality he will latch onto it claiming it to be gospel when in reality its utter dogshit.


My final point is the education systems push to stray themselves from reading. College students report that they can not read a book a week which is something that would have been deemed utterly foolish 30 years ago. The reason? Schools have stopped requiring intense reading exercises. and yes yes we all understand phonics etc. etc. but when was the last time "for the students on the forum" that you were required to read a whole book? You can say correct? They only ask you to read a portion of it and let's be honest you don't even do that you ask Chatgpt for a synopsis and write that. Now it's not just the fault of the students but the teachers as well because they simply have dumbed down the curriculum. They no longer create answers and questions that enforce you to actually read the book instead they structure them in a way that is deemed "more inclusive to the broader intelligence" In other words they make the questions easier because they want to be inclusive to retards. Now I'm not suggesting we should force kids to read no in fact that would do even more harm as it would build a negative connection to reading and they would see it as a chore or homework. Instead, this circles back to my main point women have the option to read for fun and men don't. Women can read academically in school and then go home and read the latest New York Times bestseller yet men don't have that luxury their only form of entertainment is to go home and play Fortnite while jerking off to femboy bdsm catboy roleplay while scrolling on TikTok. Women have marketing advertising and encouragement to read in the form of posters libraries parents etc. However, men do not have any of that almost every book ad is targeted towards women in one way or another. Of course, reading in general is on the decline im sure most of you know that Gen Alpha can't even read in the 5th grade however it's much more noticeable recreationally in men as opposed to women.



In conclusion, literature, in general, has taken a swing from emphasizing accomplished intellectual authors who write genuinely insightful meaningful pieces of media to slop written by housewives while they drink their chardonnay and schlick themselves to their bdsm rape romance books. This is also in part due to the publishing industry and school curriculum but is more pushed by the broader culture that revolves around reading and intellectualism. Women have the options of both reading for fun and reading for education however men do not have such luxuries and instead associate reading as a chore or homework. In order to change this we need more male authors making books for men about predominantly male things such as fighting dragons saving princesses going on adventures with a group of friends etc. We must also start to push reading programs for younger men and persuade them to take more literary entertainment as opposed to short-form content. But what do I know I'm just a retard who browses incel websites.

Sources.

The Men-Women Split in Reading is Real—and Persists Amid Historical Rate Declines

What does the data tell us about reading rates by gender?

www.arts.gov

Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis?

The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

www.vox.com

Gender Differences in Self-Estimated Intelligence: Exploring the Male Hubris, Female Humility Problem - PMC

Despite evidence from cognitive psychology that men and women are equal in measured intelligence, gender differences in self-estimated intelligence (SEI) are widely reported with males providing systematically higher estimates than females. This has ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Why don’t straight men read novels?

Men often read non-fiction books in the name of self-improvement – but many are reluctant to pick up works of fiction

www.dazeddigital.com

I was just The Poet from my birth, never have I read books regularly, and never have I been bested in the literary realm.

Indeed, the youth has fallen.

 

[Bars]

I don't read books, somebody reads for me and I listen. I prefer reading in a group. This moggs

 

[thedarkoverlord_666]

Yeah I guess that's why most books that people recommend are old books