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View submission: Where Is All the Sad Boy Literature?
I need to read this article again, really chew on it some more, but initially it comes off like another "If men just read more FICTION, everything would be fine!" Article, except this time it's "sad boy fiction".
These articles always make the assumption that all fiction is innately progressive ,when it's not, and the assumption that all men have the same level of media literacy, when they don't.
Actually, Andrew Boryga wrote an article about this on his substack[1], his article asks if we actually want fiction and or vulnerability from the perspective of straight working class men because it might be off-putting to the upper class women who mostly buy fiction novels. Also, I listened to his debut novel Victim, it's pretty good.
1: https://borywrites.substack.com/p/do-we-really-want-more-male-vulnerability
I have grown very weary of this moralizing about reading. I know there's this pervasive idea that if we could just get men to read more fiction and less hustle culture they won't fall prey to the manosphere, but it just doesn't hold water when put up to scrutiny.
Comment by TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK at 22/02/2025 at 00:07 UTC
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was actually going to post that Boryga piece at a later date!!
Comment by fallendarthenderguy at 22/02/2025 at 21:29 UTC
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https://open.substack.com/pub/borywrites/p/do-we-really-want-more-male-vulnerability?r=ud7wm&utm_medium=ios[1][2] link to the article you mention.