[neverdem]

I'll be surprised if NOW doesn't repudiate this heresy.

[LibertarianInExile]

A truly odd pic of Brooks on the linked page:

Anyway, not that you asked, but since it's sort of on the topic, one of MY favorite books is:

Funny account of what Jesus was doing all those years between the temple discussion in his teen years and when he caught up with the disciple-type dudes.

[ontos-on]

REPUDIATION is an act of rejection. It tells about the actor who rejects a truth and not about the truth value of that which is repudiated.

It has been true for three decades that the boys are dis-served in most schools unless they are fortunate to not be subjected to contemporary teaching fads. The average teacher now embodies terrible prejudices against males--all the result of the 60s and 70s feminists who were determined to "change the world". Their immature hatred of the father [and their brothers and indeed their sons] have been writ large on current educational orthodoxy.

That orthodoxy gets transmitted to many decent teachers with no inherent axe to grind. Correction now would require enormous work.

[Tax-chick]

The men preferred novels written by men, often revolving around loneliness and alienation.

Wow, I'm glad I don't hang around with "accomplished" men or "accomplished" women! Redneck trash like my husband and me prefer history books.

(Bibliopath ping?)

[Tax-chick]

But it turns out gender is not a social construct.

No, gender is a grammatical formality. Sex (male and female) is a physical reality.

[kalee]

ping

[Tired of Taxes]

I'm a woman, and I loved Catcher in the Rye, and while I didn't read Slaughterhouse Five, I did read Vonnegut's Mother Night, another favorite of mine. Then again, The Handmaid's Tale and Pride and Prejudice were favorites of mine, too.

[Psycho_Bunny]

It could be, in short, that biological factors influence reading tastes, even after accounting for culture.

You jus' keep puttin' 2 and 2 together there, Einstein.