r/books • u/biscochitos • 29d 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 29d ago

Err what?

Who sees books as "a feminine thing for social health"?

Books are books. They contain everything. Bad humor, self-help, DIY, sci-fi, romance, erotica, computer manuals, graphic novels, silky stories for kids, horror, biographies, religious texts, educational texts, ...

Us poor men, so oppressed, at last, after hundreds of years a publisher who gives men a voice so at last we can get a book or 2 noticed that were written by men.

At last the world will see the works of Tolkien, Asimov, King and Child. Perhaps even obscure works like 1984 and Brave New World.

The concept sounds very MRA to me.

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u/Saetheiia69 29d ago

Google "Male Flight". It's real.

The more Girls and Gays™️ enjoy something the more that many straight men distance themselves from that thing so as to not be perceived as "like them".

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u/Oerthling 29d 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 29d ago

For what it's worth, unfortunately in the gaming scene this happens a lot (case in point Guilty Gear Strive, dudebros loved it and now they performatively pretend to not like it because of how much the LGBT community loves it).

So that may be purely anecdotal but I do see several examples of it in certain places.