i doubt it. I have a 7yr old boy and there are tons of books with male leads.
yeah this is just a contrived sexist article hidden behind a paywall. pay it no mind.
I completely agree with you. I often check book store shelves for books for my sons. I’m frequently picking up books that look amazing and being pleasantly surprised that they feature a female lead character. That’s pretty different than how things were when I was younger.
But that’s no where near “there is not enough male representation in literature and that’s why boys are having a hard time getting into reading”. There are numerous and obvious counter arguments. The whole premise is ridiculous.
lol what
there aren’t hundreds of years of books written with male protagonists?
But yeaah, I’m sure its women’s fault boys dont wanna read /s
Nonsense there are countless books with male protagonists. The Dune three book prequel for example.
I have only read the first few because it is walled. However, this just does not seem entirely true. Did they bring any evidence of this claim?
Could also just be because… You know excessive use of social media, gaming and not trying to initiate your children to read.
I remember as a teenage boy, I disliked reading because school forced it upon me. So I ended up not reading for fun. My sis and mother kept reading and they bought me books from time to time, I slowly started to read and somewhere ended up quit reading again. School/ university.
Then along the way found a way to read digital books and loved to read again. Now I read from time to time.
This is just not true.
My boys are constantly reading, and some of their favorite series have female leads. They don’t give a shit
