Why Men Don't Read Books: Salon Writer Laura Miller Responds To Jason Pinter's HuffPost Blog

Why Men Don't Read Books: Salon Writer Laura Miller Responds To Jason Pinter's HuffPost Blog

Pinter's essay provoked all the predictable responses, in HuffPo and beyond: the pointlessly anecdotal refutations ("My husband reads books, so lots of men do!"); the desperate straw-snatching ("This is why no one will publish my masterpiece, 'Rock Meteor and the Lector of G.R.I.M.E.'!"); the flaming gender paranoia ("Evil feminists are trying to castrate us with their rosebuds-and-doilies book jackets!"); the reasonable but shortsighted rejoinder ("If you can't find something you like in the 700,000 books published every year, it's your own fault!"); and so on. One blogger made the Mobius-strip-like argument that if today's men were truly manly they wouldn't be scared away from reading by its reputation for unmanliness.

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