Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 9:11:06 GMT 2
After finding out what women write , it's time to find out what we men read . Because that post provided interesting food for thought, as well as some surprises. Indeed, that article also gave me the idea to reflect on a probable unisex literature , but we'll see if anything good comes out of it. Male issues and female issues: do they exist? Yes, in general. We cannot say otherwise. Today there is a bit too much tendency to equate men and women, but equality in rights (and duties) is one thing and another to demand equality of tastes and preferences, which cannot exist. In general terms, I wrote, but in any case there is a diversity of literary and even cinematographic tastes . I see it in my family: I have different tastes from my mother and sisters, even if in some cases they coincide. They and I liked Chocolat (the film), they and I liked the novel The Shadow of the Wind . Coincidences? Perhaps, or simply coincidences of taste. One of my sisters liked The American Sniper and I didn't like it at all.
Yet that film seems to have more masculine than feminine themes. Perhaps in some cases it is not possible to understand if a novel has a theme more suitable for men than for women, indeed in some cases the theme is unisex, if we can say so. The Revenant has only male characters, apart from a couple of women who have a minor part, butSpecial Data women also liked it, yet it's about the Wild West, even if it's not John Wayne's Wild West. Upside Down is a love story, but also a science fiction one, and I liked it, even if by saying this I just ruined my reputation. The reader's perception, first and foremost I am convinced that it is often the perception of the reader - or the spectator - that determines the theme of the story. In Upside Down I saw a non-existent and extravagant world and therefore I was attracted to it, there was also adventure and suspense, 2 ingredients that I would like in every story. In Chocolat I saw good chocolate, but also a fight against prejudice - and coming from someone who is full of it, that's saying something.
Perhaps we readers read by grasping the messages we want or those that reveal themselves to us due to our very nature, not just gender. But so far we have not yet answered the question in the post. What do men read? Like last time, I wanted to analyze my readings of recent years, to see if I could identify if they had male themes. Out of 110 novels I couldn't understand if I can really consider them male and not female reading. Maybe some novels yes, but I'm not sure at all. Have you ladies read Tarzan ? And King Kong ? And Salgari's adventure novels? Some of you will answer yes, certainly. Now I'm reading and enjoying After by Koethi Zan, which should be of more interest to a female audience, dealing with some survivors of imprisonment by a psychopath who kidnapped and tortured them. But, ultimately, it's a thriller and I like that literary genre. Have you seen North Country (Josey's Story)? It's another film that should appeal more to women, yet I've seen it twice. Like 2 times I saw Dolores Claiborne . They are not love stories, but stories that talk about women's problems, at work in the first case and in the family in the other. What do we men read, then? I know what I read: I look for stories, first of all, stories that keep me on their pages, well-written stories, stories with strong and recognizable characters, stories different from those I see every day and hear on the news. I would never read a story about teenage girls and their problems at school, but you never can tell. It must be a strong story, in my readings there is always some battle to fight, some revenge to be taken, someone trying to assert themselves. But it depends on the contexts, then, or perhaps on the general themes that the story wants to address.
Yet that film seems to have more masculine than feminine themes. Perhaps in some cases it is not possible to understand if a novel has a theme more suitable for men than for women, indeed in some cases the theme is unisex, if we can say so. The Revenant has only male characters, apart from a couple of women who have a minor part, butSpecial Data women also liked it, yet it's about the Wild West, even if it's not John Wayne's Wild West. Upside Down is a love story, but also a science fiction one, and I liked it, even if by saying this I just ruined my reputation. The reader's perception, first and foremost I am convinced that it is often the perception of the reader - or the spectator - that determines the theme of the story. In Upside Down I saw a non-existent and extravagant world and therefore I was attracted to it, there was also adventure and suspense, 2 ingredients that I would like in every story. In Chocolat I saw good chocolate, but also a fight against prejudice - and coming from someone who is full of it, that's saying something.
Perhaps we readers read by grasping the messages we want or those that reveal themselves to us due to our very nature, not just gender. But so far we have not yet answered the question in the post. What do men read? Like last time, I wanted to analyze my readings of recent years, to see if I could identify if they had male themes. Out of 110 novels I couldn't understand if I can really consider them male and not female reading. Maybe some novels yes, but I'm not sure at all. Have you ladies read Tarzan ? And King Kong ? And Salgari's adventure novels? Some of you will answer yes, certainly. Now I'm reading and enjoying After by Koethi Zan, which should be of more interest to a female audience, dealing with some survivors of imprisonment by a psychopath who kidnapped and tortured them. But, ultimately, it's a thriller and I like that literary genre. Have you seen North Country (Josey's Story)? It's another film that should appeal more to women, yet I've seen it twice. Like 2 times I saw Dolores Claiborne . They are not love stories, but stories that talk about women's problems, at work in the first case and in the family in the other. What do we men read, then? I know what I read: I look for stories, first of all, stories that keep me on their pages, well-written stories, stories with strong and recognizable characters, stories different from those I see every day and hear on the news. I would never read a story about teenage girls and their problems at school, but you never can tell. It must be a strong story, in my readings there is always some battle to fight, some revenge to be taken, someone trying to assert themselves. But it depends on the contexts, then, or perhaps on the general themes that the story wants to address.