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View submission: Where Is All the Sad Boy Literature?
Making an inference from my own experience as a young man who has been interested in writing for a long time, it may be because there are far fewer young men writing fiction narratives and getting published. I used to go to writing camps in the summer as a teen and there were regularly way more girls there, so if any of us at that camp have grown up and become writers it stands to reason that basically all of them would be female if we generalize that to the entire world. It's also because lots of the men who wrote the books that guys my age grew up with, like Gordon Korman and Kenneth Oppel, are still around and writing for the next generation of young men. Lots of the books I read that are about men my age are written by older guys reliving their youth or they were written by old guys who wrote them when they were young.
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