Feminist freaks out because Obama doesn't pander to women enough in his reading tastes

Demonspawn · 2011-08-24T21:32:30+00:00

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ManThoughts · 2011-08-24T19:32:24+00:00

My reading list is mainly men. Maybe because not a lot of women do action-adventure high fantasy.

elperroborrachotoo · 2011-08-24T22:16:04+00:00

How many books are published by men vs. books published by women?
How many books written by men are read vs. books written by women?

ManThoughts · 2011-08-24T16:43:31+00:00

Money Quote: "It is a well-known fact among those of us to whom this matters that while women read books written by men, men do not tend to reciprocate."

Really? Hmmm. Well, I'm a big bad misogynist MRA. Let's look at my summer reading list and see whether there are women there:

-Outnumbered by Jedediah Bila

-Demonic by Ann Coulter

-Flipside of Feminism by Susanne Venker

-The Idea Writers by Teressa Iezzi

-Fascinate by Sally Hogshead

-Keeping it Real by Justina Robson

-Radical Ecstasy by Dossie Easton

And that's just from my summer reading list.

Note: I didn't read these books because they were written by women. I read them because they interested me. It is feminists who are the sexists for insisting that an equal percentage of corresponding genitals belong to authors. Fact!

2011-08-24T20:47:12+00:00

My bookshelves contain...

Terry Pratchett (he's a brilliant writer)
Anne Bishop (I have every one of her books and have read the Black Jewels Trilogy countless times)
John Bullen's 'Captain Bullen's War' (his diary of time spent in Vietnam during the war in the Australian Army. Hilarious stuff)
Jaqueline Carey
Juliet Marillier
David Gemmell
David Eddings
Sharon Pennman
R A Salvatore

and who knows how many other authors, all books about Vietnam, since my grandmother gave them all to me. My grandad was killed during that war, so it's of special interest.

FreddyDeus · 2011-08-24T22:56:16+00:00

but, simple as this may sound, it looks an awful lot to me like we think they are more interesting than they think we may turn out to be.

Might be on to something there.

2011-08-25T11:08:05+00:00

I read mostly textbooks which often only publish the last names of the authors. So I really have no idea if I'm reading a man or a woman unless I make an effort to look them up. Which I never do.

ThePigman · 2011-08-25T00:31:42+00:00

I read mostly men because women spend too much time writing brainless fiction.

rockidol · 2011-08-25T21:13:19+00:00

Complaining about Obama's summer reading list is probably the most trivial useless thing anyone could be discussing.

It's a non-issue.

rockidol · 2011-08-25T21:25:05+00:00

I have 2 books on my summer reading list. One of them is by a woman the other is not. Since neither book is discussing gender or sex or anything like that I don't care about the sex of the authors and neither should anyone else.

The books are *Get Capone by Jonathan Eig *Reality is broken [it's a book about how video games can improve society] by Jane McGonigal

rockidol · 2011-08-25T21:27:08+00:00

I am glad that so many people are ripping salon apart in the comments.

Title	Feminist freaks out because Obama doesn't pander to women enough in his reading tastes
Author	ManThoughts
Upvotes	30
Comments	32
Date	August 24, 2011 4:34 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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