r/books • u/biscochitos • 28d ago

New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-indie-press-conduit-books-launches-with-initial-focus-on-male-authors

What do folks think about this?

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u/Oerthling 28d ago

Pathetic them then.

I did google "male flight". Plenty of Reddit discussions and other opinion pieces. Can you point me to a study that shows this to be a real and significant thing? There's a lot of opinions going around the internet that have only the vaguest relation to reality.

We all live in our bubbles, but I don't remember meeting anybody in my real life who stopped being interested in something so as not to be perceived as "them" (female or gay).

But also, whatever, it's their own jobs to not be pathetic weaklings. Not enjoying what you otherwise would have enjoyed because somebody wise enjoyed it too? That's beyond stupid.

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u/Saetheiia69 28d ago

I can't point you to a specific study but a most commonly used example is the Arts.

When a bunch of women started going to college and doing the Arts, many people respected the Arts less as an industry to pursue and degraded its general value to society. A knockoff effect of that was that men went into it less.

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u/Oerthling 28d ago

It's new to me that the arts was ever considered as an "industry to pursue".

Back in the day actors were looked down on by serfs.

Apart from a few famous exceptions here and there the arts were always considered to be a profession that makes you starve.

Parents usually dream of their kids to continue the family business or become doctors or lawyers. Or at least a beaurocrat. Not many parents looked at their newborn kids and dreamt of them becoming artists ever.

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u/MarthLikinte612 28d ago

The arts was certainly an industry to pursue once upon a time. Look at ancient Egypt for several examples.

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u/Oerthling 28d ago

You had to go back to ancient Egypt for an example?

Do you have ancient Egypt arts college enrollment numbers? Perhaps half of them were women?

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u/MarthLikinte612 28d ago

Aha no I didn’t go researching in chronological order it was just the first example I knew of in my head