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View submission: Where Is All the Sad Boy Literature?
Cameron raises a compelling question. This also shows why coming-of-age novels written by and about young men have only become more necessary throughout the years. As for the question of whether there’s space for them, Maloku insists there is. “If there is an appetite for these books, then the publishing industry will seek them out and publish them,” she says. “The real question is, **are men being more vulnerable than they used to be, or are we just more interested in these stories now because readers are bored of the same stories written by the same kinds of people?”**
I think it's both, and neither.
this article talks at length about *The Topeka School*: if it "makes anything evident, it’s the close relationship between radicalization, masculinity, and political rhetoric". It contrasts two types of Guy, Adam and Darren, who are radicalized in opposite ways; to learn more about Adam's empathy is to understand better Darren's lurch toward the right. And to really dig there, lit *has* to make you see the *whys* and the *hows* of a Darren character, someone we are correctly *terrified of* and would love nothing more to **other** as a shitbag.
but reading hopefully begets understanding, and god knows that writing about a Darren isn't one of the *same stories written by the same kinds of people*.
There's nothing here!