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Anonymous No.24589347 >>24589363 >>24589364 >>24589389 >>24589393 >>24589402 >>24589413 >>24589428 >>24589431 >>24589454 >>24589459 >>24589470 >>24589512 >>24589680 >>24589718 >>24589756 >>24589771 >>24589996 >>24590211 >>24590420 >>24590982 >>24590985 >>24591130 >>24591213 >>24591216 >>24593428 >>24593953 >>24593988 >>24595075 >>24596070 >>24596754 >>24596759 >>24598852 >>24598957 >>24598965 >>24599523 >>24599543 >>24600848
Why did men stop reading books?
Anonymous No.24589363 >>24589449 >>24589456 >>24589458 >>24589573 >>24589709 >>24589719 >>24589732 >>24589788 >>24589922 >>24591174 >>24592170 >>24593236 >>24598767 >>24598769 >>24601822
>>24589347 (OP)
because other mediums like video games are better at storytelling and men moved on to those
Anonymous No.24589364
>>24589347 (OP)
Men never read books
Anonymous No.24589389 >>24598921
>>24589347 (OP)
video games and plastic toys
Anonymous No.24589393
>>24589347 (OP)
>inb4 women akschually only read smut
Anonymous No.24589402 >>24592201
>>24589347 (OP)
Not a single book on her shelf is worth reading
Anonymous No.24589413
>>24589347 (OP)
I don't see a single copy of Steinbeck on that shelf. Whatever her opinion is is invalid.
Anonymous No.24589421
Publishing is Democrat adjacent
Anonymous No.24589427 >>24591136 >>24596762
women actually only read smut
Anonymous No.24589428 >>24593195 >>24601226
>>24589347 (OP)
I've been getting into reading again and I can't find anything that is really good. All the mass marketed shit is for teenager girls or roasties. I like reading Palahniuk so far and I have a few books I want to read because I hear other guys talking about it but there isn't a massive push to have male voices talking about male issues. If a guy wrote a book about being single in 2025 it would just be treated as incel propaganda and never be picked up.
Anonymous No.24589431 >>24592220
>>24589347 (OP)
Why does she have a punchable face?
Anonymous No.24589449
>>24589363
Lol.
Anonymous No.24589454
>>24589347 (OP)
We didn't.
We just stopped discussing literature with foids because turned reading literature into being an attention-whore.
Anonymous No.24589456 >>24589590 >>24597069 >>24598685
>>24589363
>mediums
Anonymous No.24589458
>>24589363
Bookfags BTFO
Anonymous No.24589459 >>24589472 >>24590352
>>24589347 (OP)
I think these stats are actually about who purchases new books. My library and used book store are often filled with other guys.
Anonymous No.24589470 >>24589584 >>24590171
>>24589347 (OP)
She brings up some stat about how the top 10 best selling books by male authors have a roughly equal split of readership between men and women, but the top 10 best selling books by female authors are mostly read by women. I'm willing to bet a lot of those books on the female author list are romance or romantasy, aka, genres practically only women and queer men read.
Anonymous No.24589472
>>24589459
I literally just buy old books on eBay to look aesthetic on my shelf, then I read said book on my phone at work.
Thats how I’ve read every book so far pretty much.
Anonymous No.24589512
>>24589347 (OP)
I cannot imagine she could be considered a "literary woman" since I can tell from the spines of the books behind that they are trash. Women read bad books, the publishers see that and print more bad books for women, and so men are frozen out of contemporary fiction.
Anonymous No.24589544
sorry toots i aint into soi
Anonymous No.24589573 >>24597081
>>24589363
Video games are not better at story telling, they're just more stimulating.
Anonymous No.24589584 >>24589761 >>24590208 >>24599767
>>24589470
I mean, it still supports her point that women are more diverse readers than men. Also romance is unfairly maligned. An enormous amount of life is wrapped up in romance in its various forms. It shouldn't be treated as some additional fixture added on to literature that you can take or leave.
Anonymous No.24589590
>>24589456
Agreed. I think calling art and stuff 'media' is soulless and depressing.
Anonymous No.24589680
>>24589347 (OP)
real books give women the ick
Anonymous No.24589709
>>24589363
video games just give you the illusion of doing something, being "active", and that's something men crave especially in a world that cucks them out of any actual masculinity.
The greatest men, like Napoleon, have always been voracious readers. They could've wasted their time with the equivalent of games of their time, like playing cards, but they would rather read.
Anonymous No.24589718 >>24589725 >>24589733
>>24589347 (OP)
What she REALLY means by this is: What happened to the ATTRACTIVE, SUCCESSFUL "literary man" your ugly nerd ass reading books is invisible to her and her ilk.
Anonymous No.24589719 >>24600301
>>24589363
I used to play video games all the time when I was younger and I actually only started getting interested in literature and the classics because of how bored I became of modern video games. I still ike to replay some older games here and there and every 5 or so years, a good new game comes out as well, but for the most part modern video games are absolute garbage and at least for me, they can't compete at all with literature.
Anonymous No.24589725 >>24589733
>>24589718
This. She thinks "Oh my GOD, WHY DOESN'T SPORTS CHAD THAT I WANT TO FUCK MY BRAINS OUT NOT READ HARRY POTTER!? She doesn't even view the average male as human.
Anonymous No.24589732
>>24589363
Video games keep you away from the story too much. Side quests and combat interfere insistently.
Anonymous No.24589733 >>24589742
>>24589718
>>24589725
Is this a form of autogynephilia?
Anonymous No.24589742 >>24589749
>>24589733
It's called learning how women act, behave and think. Chase pussy long enough, you're bound to learn a thing or two about how it ticks.
Anonymous No.24589749 >>24589764
>>24589742
You're more obsessed with Chad than the average woman. You want Chad to chase you plap your bussy.
Anonymous No.24589756
>>24589347 (OP)
Books? I think I'm on the wrong board.
Anonymous No.24589761 >>24589781 >>24589796
>>24589584
>women are more diverse readers than men.

White girls love bbc
Anonymous No.24589764
>>24589749
>Anon starts projecting his gay fantasies onto me
Gross. Many such cases.
Anonymous No.24589771 >>24589780
>>24589347 (OP)
Why read when I can hop on my pogo stick or play hoop-and-ball?
Anonymous No.24589780 >>24589817
>>24589771
>t.six year old urban yoot
Anonymous No.24589781 >>24589810
>>24589761
Jew propaganda
Most white women are extremely exclusionary towards black men according to dating app data
Anonymous No.24589788 >>24589834
>>24589363
Good bait. But modern videogames are just fetch simulators to put you in a passive trance
Anonymous No.24589791
I really don’t give a fuck what women read. Why are they always telling me what I should or shouldn’t read?
Not that I give a fuck what they think I should or shouldn’t read.
Anonymous No.24589796
>>24589761
White men racemix more than white women
Anonymous No.24589810 >>24596662
>>24589781
Only because modern society has demonized their lust for big black peckers incessantly to the point of dehumanization and destruction of reputation.
Anonymous No.24589817
>>24589780
Seethe more. Mother probably has you doing chores haw haw!
Anonymous No.24589834 >>24590022
>>24589788
>Im proud of being ignorant and want to announce it publicly
I suppose it's its own form of entertainment but i would prefer legit discussion by non-retards
Anonymous No.24589864
What books do these people want me to read? Why should I stop doing what I think is important and do what they think is important?
Anonymous No.24589922 >>24590040 >>24590496 >>24594094
>>24589363
Let me guess. You're one of those fags who use the excuse that vidya gives you faster reflexes and the ability to solve all these problems on the fly to justify your juvenile retarded 'hobby'?
Anonymous No.24589938 >>24590109
Stupid debate and the answer is always the same
Women don't read more quality literature they just read romance slop and it's not any more spiritually edifying than the male equivalent of watching sports or playing video games.
High IQ men still read,mostly non fiction desu but still some fiction and poetry thrown in there
Anonymous No.24589996 >>24590045
>>24589347 (OP)
the only reason this bitch feels safe saying shit like this is because she knows she's too ugly to rape
Anonymous No.24590022
>>24589834
#1 mistake of bait posters - they get too greedy and tack on follow-ups that nobody gives a shit about
Anonymous No.24590040 >>24590103
>>24589922
You shouldn't accuse people of having juvenile hobbies while posting on 4chan
Anonymous No.24590045
>>24589996
She has a pretty face, I'd rape her face.
Anonymous No.24590103 >>24590114
>>24590040
It's a website retard. This place isn't anymore special than any other website. It's just words in a field, but thanks for not denying anything. At least you're honest.
Anonymous No.24590109
>>24589938
>High IQ men still read,mostly non fiction
Anonymous No.24590114 >>24590122 >>24598158
>>24590103
It is quite literally, one of the most prominent retard manbaby digital daycares in existence next to reddit.
Anonymous No.24590122 >>24590125
>>24590114
... but enough about your family tree
Anonymous No.24590124 >>24590158
the medium is mostly dead to majority of society due to the invention and spread of the internet, social media and things like youtube, netflix, etc.
it's a natural course of events
Anonymous No.24590125 >>24590127 >>24601781
>>24590122
>Start projecting
D'awww... poor baby
Anonymous No.24590127 >>24590138
>>24590125
thats how you reply to a shitpost? i might have been spot on about the family tree, now that i think about it
Anonymous No.24590138 >>24590143
>>24590127
>*Looks at his gaybaby family tree* DAMN, I must have been SPOT ON ABOUT YOU!
Yeah, you're definitely projecting, LMFAO.
Anonymous No.24590143 >>24590150
>>24590138
>D'awww... poor baby
>gaybaby
pretty grim
Anonymous No.24590150 >>24590188
>>24590143
>Pretty grim
I agree! Prospects aren't looking good for your potential offspring at ALL!
Anonymous No.24590158 >>24590196
>>24590124
Define "dead". Nowadays per capita there are a lot more people reading than there were in the 19th century, let alone earlier. Literature was never some kind of mass appeal media during any time period, even when books became affordable for the general population.
Anonymous No.24590171
>>24589470
>She brings up some stat about how the top 10 best selling books by male authors have a roughly equal split of readership between men and women, but the top 10 best selling books by female authors are mostly read by women.

I think if women really cared about equality they would stop reading male authors.

But let’s face it they aren’t doing it out of kindness to men. They just aren’t all that great at entertaining themselves.
Anonymous No.24590188 >>24590202
>>24590150
so now you are just parroting my original post
no wonder you think so badly of everyone on here - you cant even take, let alone understand, a joke
Anonymous No.24590196
>>24590158
not saying nobody reads anymore just saying that the era of printed word is already gone and we are now living the era of visual stimulation
Anonymous No.24590202 >>24590206 >>24600858
>>24590188
You seem genuinely upset about something, dipshit. You should have realized that any genuine discourse between the two of us went out the fucking window with your use of ad hominem :^)
Anonymous No.24590206
>>24590202
>you seem mad somehow
most boring type of internet claim
i just saw the chance for a family tree joke and took it, im not your original pen pal
Anonymous No.24590208
>>24589584
There's a difference between a romantic subplot and a book primarily about romance. Men don't mind when the secret agent gets the girl between spying and shootouts but don't expect us to want to read a tome about a billionaire and his totally ordinary girlfriend.
Anonymous No.24590211
>>24589347 (OP)
>women wanting sex, cheating, and shameless nudity plastered on the cover is brave, empowering and good
>men wanting entertaining characters, good action and story, and some badass heroic stuff is toxic masculinity
Lesbian
Anonymous No.24590352
>>24589459
indeed, although obviously biased I know plenty of men in the real world that do read, but all they read are pre-21st century; books of the modern day aren't written for men
>but books were always more popular with women than men
true, but this was in spite of the fact that they were written by men for men
Anonymous No.24590420
>>24589347 (OP)
they still read just not the slop modern publishers shit out
Anonymous No.24590496
>>24589922
I play vidya because its fun
Doesn't stop me from reading plenty and having hobbies beyond books and vibdeo games
Anonymous No.24590512
>Why aren't men reading werewolf erotica too?
Make the werewolves cute girls and watch the numbers go up, Goldstein.
Anonymous No.24590982
>>24589347 (OP)
Men haven't stopped. Women have stopped and begun posing for biopics and news articles about how they're reading books, and women have taken to the streets to performatively "get lost in a book" in the middle of busy, shared pedestrian and automobile spaces, while men stay home, going their own way reading books quietly and without using it to impress women or get payed for it. If a man uploads a youtube video he does it to help his fellow man, not to tear down the opposite sex, and he wouldn't be caught dead with eyeliner and a cleavage.
Anonymous No.24590985 >>24591021
>>24589347 (OP)
But men didn't stop reading books? Why do so many people keep pushing this gay ass meme?
Anonymous No.24591021 >>24591082 >>24591110
>>24590985
Men don't read NEW books, especially literati stuff like they used to, and basically forfeited the publishing industry to women.
Anonymous No.24591030 >>24591139 >>24592220
Men read nonfiction
Anonymous No.24591082
>>24591021
Turns out there are repercussions giving preferential treatment to women in college and business. They end up making everything about them and being a general pain in the ass until every man with any self respect leaves.
Anonymous No.24591093
lmao you can tell that the entire shelf behind her is packed with crap. Reading this stuff isn't any better than watching anime. The lack of self-awareness is astounding
Anonymous No.24591110 >>24591129
>>24591021
Not really, you can still get published and have a male editor.
Anonymous No.24591129
>>24591110
I'm not saying it's impossible, but have you looked at the rosters of literary agencies? Many are 100% women while larger ones only have a couple dudes, most of them old-timers. Editorial staff at publishers is harder to evaluate but I can't believe it's much different.
9 No.24591130 >>24601793
>>24589347 (OP)
They prefer to be idiots and be on video games all day, i dont know how some of these men are pulling girls way out of their leauge too, when all they do is play games and eat chips
9 No.24591136 >>24596762 >>24598694
>>24589427
idk what woman you've been around buddy, my girl only reads classics n shit, she says she finds smut disgusting and illiterate
Anonymous No.24591139
>>24591030
This is me. I haven’t read a fictional work since 100 Years of Solitude. There’s no more fiction can say, that novel is the peak.
Anonymous No.24591174 >>24591183 >>24594077 >>24598769
>>24589363
This
Anonymous No.24591183 >>24594077 >>24601803
>>24591174
Kojima is amazing. One of the best storytellers of our time. However, do not forget he built himself a vast wealth of knowledge off of movies and literature; The Creative Gene is all about how those created the man he is and how he was able to embrace them to become a better storyteller for his games. Death Stranding is incredible and powerful, and literature is part of what fueled that.

I just want to remind people that video games ARE an amzing storytelling force, and I feel very strongly about this, but not to forget that literature is still a viable method of storytelling and we shouldnt solely move forward from it.
Anonymous No.24591213
>>24589347 (OP)
i read AI output
it gets to the point unlike books
Anonymous No.24591216
>>24589347 (OP)
all the books she reads are garbage fiction
Anonymous No.24592170 >>24592208 >>24598164
>>24589363
And this is the reason why videogames are dying. It's a medium filled with fraud and failure writers/filmmakers like Kojimbo. Only Nintendo will survive this end. At least they are making games and it never fall in the Le Epic Story.
Anonymous No.24592201 >>24600238
>>24589402
World war z is the only one kinda worth it
Anonymous No.24592208
>>24592170
>Dying
You can't kill dopamine addiction.
Anonymous No.24592220 >>24592232 >>24592249 >>24594085
>>24589431
She’s a woman
>>24591030
Gotta read about great men in history because there’s no shot of anyone ever doing anything great ever again. Making yourself a cuck to the dreams and desires of men long dead. Sad!
Anonymous No.24592232
>>24592220
just like in my animes
Anonymous No.24592249 >>24592935
>>24592220
>no shot of anyone ever doing anything great ever ag-
Anonymous No.24592935
>>24592249
Refuses to accept that he should be bald, therefore making him a coward. Despicable
Anonymous No.24592962 >>24593215
this entire website is one big bait
Anonymous No.24593195 >>24593236
>>24589428
Contemporary books aren't written for men. What the common gateway novels for men have in common (Blood Meridian, American Psycho, etc) is that they're written from the 90s or earlier. Try reading some Hemmingway or something.
Anonymous No.24593215
>>24592962
now you SEE apply it to everything else and shall SEE even more
Anonymous No.24593220
not watching some dumb whore but is this based on data about men not buying books or saying they dont read at all? i havent bought a book in a decade but i still read
Anonymous No.24593221 >>24601795
why do assmad dykes assume this sort of shit? i read every weekend in bed with my girlfriend
Anonymous No.24593236 >>24593863
>>24593195
see >>24589363
Anonymous No.24593251 >>24593303
late to the thread but i suppose you should know this subject is based on a nyt article, i remember seeing it going around before
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/style/fiction-books-men-reading.html
Anonymous No.24593303 >>24593333
>>24593251
I hate this fucking narrative so much it pisses me the fuck off every time i see it. and these fucking grifters that are stringing along all these "positive masculinity" people keep bringing it up. Gradually I began to hate them.
Anonymous No.24593333 >>24593361
>>24593303
i just hate women
Anonymous No.24593361
>>24593333
Checked but anon women are a part of you just as much as you are a part of them
Anonymous No.24593428
>>24589347 (OP)
Idk but Id definitely ask her on a date if you know what I mean
Anonymous No.24593863
>>24593236
That post is wrong though. For the most part men don't give a fuck about story in video games. Gamers will much rather replay Skyrim for the 235th time, or play some autistic shit like Factorio than play some of these story focused titles. Modern games that were made in the past decade that focus on story unfortunately almost always suffer from leftist, millennial writing and because of that are usually very unpopular with regular people.
Anonymous No.24593953 >>24594327
>>24589347 (OP)
porn and video games are way more fun than reading walls of words. simple as
Anonymous No.24593988
>>24589347 (OP)
I did watch it out of curiosity and it isn't as bad as the title suggest.
Anonymous No.24594017
>if you aren't posting about what you're doing then it isn't happening
This is literally the world we're in isn't it
Anonymous No.24594077
>>24591174
>>24591183
>kojima invented the camera
I KNEEL KOJIMBLES
Anonymous No.24594085
>>24592220
>implying I read "great men" when most of my history consumption is cultural history.
Anonymous No.24594094
>>24589922
If you're comparing it to reading fiction it's fair.
Anonymous No.24594327
>>24593953
Video games are a lot more fun when you don't have overstimulated dopamine receptors though. Having a delayed gratification hobby ironically makes the instant gratification hobbies all the more enjoyable. People who play video games all day every day don't even enjoy the games they play, they're just addicted.
Anonymous No.24595075 >>24596057
>>24589347 (OP)
The advent of highly accessible digital porn has degenerated men into total retards
Anonymous No.24596054
I can only speak for myself but school ruined it for me. They selected the most dry, unappealing garbage to read and I started associating reading as punishment. I'm glad I was able to break my conditioning.
Anonymous No.24596057
>>24595075
put the shoe on the other foot as well
Anonymous No.24596067 >>24596072
I'd technically be considered in the stats as a "non-reader" because I don't buy new books.

I just hunt around second hand shops for old books. Apparently almost all the customers there are old men too. So men are still reading, they're just reading old books.
Anonymous No.24596070
>>24589347 (OP)
We never stopped reading. We just never read the garbage women like.
Anonymous No.24596072 >>24596088 >>24596092
>>24596067
>I'd technically be considered in the stats as a "non-reader" because I don't buy new books.

This. New books are almost entirely UTTER GARBAGE. New writers are trash, and new books are unbearable. I despise what has happened to writing.
Anonymous No.24596088
>>24596072
feel free to crab walk into the past
Anonymous No.24596092 >>24596093 >>24596813
>>24596072
It's not even that, you can still buy re-releases of old books. I could buy a Pengiun copy of a Dostovesky novel for $25NZ, or I could be patient and find one for literally $1 at a second hand store.

I got an entire 50+ volume set of the western canon published by Chicago University for $100NZ.

University bookstores really fucking fleece kids. They sell Hobbes's Leviathan for like $100 new, with the most insipid and bland commentary at the front to justify the price.
Anonymous No.24596093 >>24596112 >>24596120 >>24596158
>>24596092
>It's not even that, you can still buy re-releases of old books.

Are you sure about that? The re-releases will sanitize the language. Ask me how I know. Go right fucking ahead.
Anonymous No.24596112
>>24596093
H-how do you know?
Anonymous No.24596120 >>24596158 >>24596815
>>24596093
What could you sanitize in a Dostoevsky novel apart from his occasional one line sneeding at jewish and polish lodgers?

The classics have surprisingly very little explicit racial hatred.
Anonymous No.24596158 >>24596773 >>24598709
>>24596093
>H-how do you know?
Because almost all of the greatest works have been sanitized. Most of my favorites. You nearly cannot find an untarnished copy of the greatest stories humans have written.

>>24596120
>What could you sanitize in a Dostoevsky novel apart from his occasional one line sneeding at jewish and polish lodgers?
Why do you ask a question that is answered by the question itself? Also, you can sanitize so much more than just that nonsense.

>The classics have surprisingly very little explicit racial hatred.

This is how I know you're an idiot. They don't sanitize racial discussion; they sanitize thought itself. Once you realize this, you will realize it's already too late.
Anonymous No.24596662
>>24589810
Sure, Pajeet.
Anonymous No.24596754
>>24589347 (OP)
the vast VAST majority of new books are slop literature is dead and women killed it
Anonymous No.24596759 >>24598775
>>24589347 (OP)
>Why did THIS ENTIRE FUCKING GENERATION stop reading books?

because other mediums like video games are better at storytelling and THIS ENTIRE FUCKING GENERATION OF WOMEN moved on to those


If I hear one more "men this, men that" and you imbeciles allow for such slander against men I'll fucking kill you starting with the so called "women haters" you'll never fucking hate women until you love men UNTIL YOU LOVE MEN YOU WILL NEVER HATE WOMEN.

Only your mother in law knows how to hate a woman.
ONLY A PERSON ABOVE THE AGE OF 30 KNOWS HOW TO HATE GEN-ZOOPHILLICS AND GEN-ALPHAS
Anonymous No.24596762
>>24589427
>>24591136
Fat landwhales and the gypsiest brownest pajeetas read smut.
Anonymous No.24596773 >>24597111
>>24596158
schizo post
Anonymous No.24596813
>>24596092
>I got an entire 50+ volume set of the western canon published by Chicago University for $100NZ.
Wish I could find stuff like that in my shit country, people only resell old books for new prices or more. Being in Eastern Europe is the worst.
Anonymous No.24596815
>>24596120
>what could you possibly conceivably hypothetically censor except this one thing and also uh meh bluh blah
tard
Anonymous No.24597069
>>24589456
It's like what Gnomes Chompskii said, the mediums is the massage
Anonymous No.24597081
>>24589573
Yeah, this is like listening to overstimulated fatties talking about how their junkfood is more tasty than healthy, homecooked meals.
Anonymous No.24597111
>>24596773
You can call me a schizo, but you can't call me wrong.
Anonymous No.24598158
>>24590114
Just here to say based
Anonymous No.24598164
>>24592170
>Tendie
>Filtered by Kojima Kino
Many such cases
Anonymous No.24598666
Nobody reads books in general.
Anonymous No.24598685 >>24598949
>>24589456
alternative?
Anonymous No.24598694
>>24591136
>idk what woman you've been around buddy, my girl only reads classics n shit, she says she finds smut disgusting and illiterate
The 1 in 100 billion woman does not invalidate the rule. Most women who read only ever read slop. I.e the rapist vampire billionaire Mr type A personality werewolf who appeals to her innate hybristofillia.
Anonymous No.24598709 >>24598791
>>24596158
I'll bite
>You nearly cannot find an untarnished copy of the greatest stories humans have written
Name five (5) things you believe qualify as "the greatest stories humans have written" that you can't find an "untarnished" copy of.
Anonymous No.24598767
>>24589363
This is the post.
Anonymous No.24598769
>>24589363
>>24591174
strand type games absolutely MOG shitterature
Anonymous No.24598775
>>24596759
Yo unc calm down :skullemoji:
Anonymous No.24598791
>>24598709
The most disturbing thing about this is that it's hard to know for sure (and it would be a massive project to tackle with definitive and specific examples). All I can recall is that there are dozens of books which I read that I know for a fact the language has been sanitized. Digital copies are the most prominent victims because the publisher just edits it however they want.

Do not trust any published copy from 2000 or later. That's the simplest rule to follow, but it's not perfect because this has been happening from before then too.
Anonymous No.24598852
>>24589347 (OP)
>go to bookstore
>self help books by Dr. Schwartzstein-goldberg-weiss-foreskinsucker
>wall of gooner fantasy rape porn for women all with titles like _____ of ______.
>rainbow flag display of LGBTQ books front and center which are all about growing up in traditional 1st generation immigrant families and "pretending to be normal" when all you ever think about is anal.
>shelves and shelves of literal propaganda about overthrowing the white menace
>clothbound classics with copyright free translations, bound in hideous neon pastel covers for $50 a pop
Yeah, why arent men reading? Could it be because the only books they see are gay and retarded?
Anonymous No.24598921
>>24589389
Books are paper toys... Escapism.
Anonymous No.24598949
>>24598685
"media," you doof
Anonymous No.24598957
>>24589347 (OP)
Real men don't read books, they author them.
Anonymous No.24598965
>>24589347 (OP)
Your entire worldview and reality is a lie. People are not god. You are not god. People do not control or determine reality. The people in power do not control or determine reality. People are not equal. People are not blank slates, people are not inherently good noble savages, people are not perfectible, people are not rational and rationally disconnected from their environment. There is no realm of higher purely rational thought disconnected from emotions and impulses. People and society cannot be improved through social engineering by leftist collage educated experts, managerial bureaucrats, or the state.
Progress is not inherent to reality. Reality is not entirely and fundamentally material. reality is not fundamentally dead but alive and consciousness and responsive and evolving. The divine and spiritual is real. the meak are not more moral than the great. Weakness and tolerance are not virtuous. Everything just is what it is. Reality is inherently mysterious. Self loathing is just as evil as hubris. Your entire worldview is just a rationalization for the ruling class to gain ever increasing amounts of power and turn people into cogs. Your entire worldview is just lying and stealing and parasitism. Your entire worldview is just a way to deny reality and evade responsibility and remain immature and evil and not grow up and be virtuous and responsible and like an actual fucking adult.
Anonymous No.24599523 >>24600848
>>24589347 (OP)
If we discounted porn-in-book-form (romance) from the statistics (and add pirated books) then men would read just as much as women.
Anonymous No.24599530
I still read. Will women find me attractive?
Anonymous No.24599543
>>24589347 (OP)
Brooklyne briar phenotype reads books?
Anonymous No.24599767
>>24589584
>romance is unfairly maligned
It’s equivalent to male dominated genres like 40k books (or westerns once). Absolute low effort slop writing. The difference is due to the women are wonderful mental virus anything women do has to be more enlightened and praiseworthy. Therefore people will expend serious effort trying to build apologia for romantasy and other worthless crap. They’d never dream of defending isekai manga or similar bullshit.

Once you start to see this kneejerk woman defense it’s very hard to stop. Braindead politician? But is she a woman and therefore criticism is just sexism? Didn’t she have good intentions for the stupid shit she did? Wasn’t she misled (by men most likely) to taking bribes? Woman rapist? But consider the trauma in her life. Wasn’t there a man somewhere that made her diddle kids? Woman murderer? But think of the kids! They need a mother. Lazy retard who can’t clean up after themselves? But as a woman she has such a high mental load! Living in patriarchy costs many spoons each day, women do all this emotional labour, blah blah.
This is the background noise you’re swimming in.
Anonymous No.24599828 >>24600853
Anons are being so negative mean to her.

I watched the video because I wanted to find out whether or not she was pretty. I had a hard time telling from OP's picture because I liked her hair, eyes and style but thought her mouth looked weird (the final answer is that she isn't attractive btw. Her upper lip is off-putting and she has a cringe tattoo below her left ear).
It turns out that she's very intellectually honest throughout the video and is rather critical of the "men are dumb and don't read fiction" discourse. She goes through a few articles, some better than others, and comments on the points made, sometimes dismissing them and sometimes finding them to be insightful.
She brings up interesting data about how men are much less likely to read books written by women or with female protagonists than the opposite, and the possibility of booktok and celebrity book clubs further skewing the market of "women's" books away from men. She also brought up one article that said something very interesting about how men and women's social behaviour differ in bookstores, something I myself never thought about but immediately confirmed.
At the same time, she's less enthusiastic when "Mr. Israel" (100% unironically the guy's name) says that books make you more empathetic and a better person, and America is going to shit because men play video games instead of reading novels.

It's a decent video even though I hate bookt*bers. Her stance is sincere, humble and very sensible. I'd suggest some of you to take a look. It's not like anyone here would spend those 14 minutes doing something important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-T5UHEodDU
Anonymous No.24600238
>>24592201

World War Z is pretty cool but the author is Pro-Zionist/Israeli. Don't think I'll ever reread World War Z again since Israel is genociding the Palestinians and just destabilizing the Middle East in general which is driving more Muslim refugees into Europe and the U.S. since Islamic nations won't take in Muslim refugees.
Anonymous No.24600301
>>24589719
Exactly the same for me.
Anonymous No.24600848
>>24589347 (OP)>>24599523
women only PAY more for paperback books bc they read for CONSOOMERism, porn, and virtue signaling. besides all books that are being printed since like 2005 at least are literally shit. no wonder only women but those
this ugly inbred bulldyke looks like she hates men so bad yet wants to look and be like them
Anonymous No.24600853 >>24601810
>>24599828
Most people don't care. They see headline, screencap, woman, and think "this bad, I mad". Welcome to the internet, son
Anonymous No.24600858
>>24590202
I read your reply chain, just wanted to call you a faggot
Anonymous No.24600928
I go to the library or ebook. I have bought a book in decades. And, if I want to buy a book, I buy used.
Anonymous No.24601226 >>24601401
>>24589428
I can't believe you guys are giving yourself such a hard time ever reading anything other than sci-fi. There's tons of good sci-fi you can basically just read sci-fi forever.
Anonymous No.24601401
>>24601226
But I almost only read sci-fi, and old sci-fi.
Anonymous No.24601781
>>24590125
>>Start projecting
>D'awww... poor baby
this vibe and method of arguing? reeks of female, fag, or tranny.
Anonymous No.24601793
>>24591130
>They prefer to be idiots and be on video games all day, i dont know how some of these men are pulling girls way out of their leauge too, when all they do is play games and eat chips
>
to have a real relationship, then yeah, what you said.
But to just go home with a guy and get fucked?
look decent, and act like a jerk. All it takes.
Anonymous No.24601795
>>24593221
>i read every weekend in bed with my girlfriend
is she inflatable? Asking for a friend.
Anonymous No.24601803
>>24591183
What do you think of the metal gear series?
Anonymous No.24601806
>men don't read books
>what happened to the literary man? books vs toxic masculinity
>men read books
>the rise of the "book bro" and why it's a problem
Anonymous No.24601810
>>24600853
I just like her because shes cute. The only retards who genuinely hatr women are troons and Poltards. So the same retard.
Anonymous No.24601822 >>24601824
>>24589363
video games give you the illusion of control, something you don't have in your actual real life
Anonymous No.24601824 >>24601906
>>24601822
Better than being a cuckold like you
Anonymous No.24601906
>>24601824
Nigga, he's right.