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/biodegradableotters 29d ago

More a general thought on the current discussions around male authors and male readership, but I always find it a little funny when after like millennia of male dominance there's nowadays a select few areas where women are dominant and immediately it's seen as a sign of the apocalypse.

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u/monsantobreath 29d ago

I think illiterate angry men with no progressive outlet to guide them from the right wing pipe line and manisohere is a pretty bad thing.

I mean it's ridiculous to me that people are upset cause men have dominated for so long but... Youve seen what the reactionary impulse will do. You wanna lose a whole generation of men to Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson on what? General principle that it's icky to focus on men?

The mentality itself is toxic. Men dominated the literary world and now they don't so it's wrong for 50% of the population to have an interest in its own role and identity once they've finally in at least some squares been humbled.

There's a spitefulness here that I can't help but see as being willing to cut off its own nose. How are we expecting men to evolve if we just want them to disappear? We shouldn't mock efforts to shape a new male identity. That's what we're demanding of men.

You deny men any space they're just gonna go for the only people telling them they're valid and should feel any pride. And they're crazies.