Kevin Creighton

this is also why boys are reading so much less now that children’s publishing has become female dominated men write archetypes. women write about themselves. men write about heroes, villains, gods, monsters, extraordinary characters who embody something greater than themselves, heroes that boys can admire and aspire to become women write characters who look like them, think like them, have their problems and insecurities, characters they can identify with and project themselves onto men use writing as a vehicle for self-transcendence while women use it as a vehicle for self-recognition it’s the difference between wanting to become Batman and wanting Batman to become you it’s then obvious why boys craving the hero’s journey would rather retreat into video games than read yet another piece of autobiographical, gossip-filled, moralizing turboslop if you want boys to start reading again you need to let men write again