I was going through “fantasy books” on amazon and was surprised to see that most of them are written by women, and the ratio is not even close. I was kind of expecting the opposite.

Does anyone know why this might be the case?

  • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Youre better off asking why women overall are more likely to read.

    I think people above a certain age won’t believe me, but I swear when I was growing up (born in 2001,) being smart and having hobbies associated with smartness was made out to be unmasculine. I don’t even know how that happened, but from a young age we all thought of reading as a women’s hobby. I think there weren’t many male characters in children’s media of that era that were smart and not made out to be uncool, but I might be misremembering.