I deleted this post, but seeing as how MR had already replied to it, I'll repost it again
(Dec 31, 2025 08:24 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]Today, most writing and reading are done by women
It depends on the genre. Despite woke universities working hard to make women the majority in science and engineering, a solid majority of actual professional writing in these subjects is by males. The same thing is true in the more technical areas of philosophy, like epistemology, metaphysics (in the philosophical sense), philosophical logic and the like. (We do see a lot of female "science writers" in the pages of Scientific American and similar publications.)
Quote:and a great deal of that is about sex.
Female writers certainly dominate romance novels, where they are probably 90% of both the authors and readers. But they also seem to be the majority of mystery novel authors and readers though we do see lots of men reading and writing these (men like puzzles). I think that women are well represented in psychology and social science writing as well. Along with probably being the majority of writers in areas like literature and literary theory.
I agree that women write about sex far more often than men do. But it might not be sex so much as it's feelings and interpersonal relationships. That's where the main focus of female interest seems to be. Romance novels obviously are all about feelings and relationships. But so are mystery novels and psychology, where observing how people relate and what seems off to the psychologist or the sleuth come into play. The more highbrow sorts of literature tend to be character studies, all about feelings and relationships, so they skew towards a female sensibility as well.
Quote:There’s something perverse in using the consumption of such writing to conclude that most books are now for women
Most popular titles that one finds down at the local Barnes and Noble seem to be. But it doesn't seem to me to be true in technical or scholarly writing in many fields. If one is interested in spacecraft or aviation, it's overwhelmingly male authors and readers, I'd wager.
Quote:It is deep in gender polarization, which affects everything from TikTok content recommendations to voting patterns to dating practices.
Maybe. We are likely to see gender polarization if men write for men and women write for women.
At this point the topic of the essay seems to swerve dramatically.
Quote:Many of my most beautiful female friends are self-styled “femcels.” Well-admired but confoundingly dateless and sexless
Well, if a growing percentage of males aren't getting laid, that would suggest that a corresponding portion of females aren't getting laid either.
I'd guess that the writer's "most beautiful female friends" occupy somewhat high-ranking positions in their organizations, make a lot of money and think very highly of themselves. They are the kind of women who sit in little groups in the more upscale singles bars complaining "where are all the men?" when they are literally surrounded by men. What they mean, of course, is where are all the men
worthy of me ??. As women crash through glass ceilings, they find themselves with fewer and fewer mating prospects unless they are willing to "date down" so to speak.
Quote:they are exposed to virtually no “content” that adequately represents male perceptions and experiences, and are protected by contemporary social etiquette and by men themselves from conversations and interactions that would forcefully get such things across.
Well, if women surround themselves with female subcultures, of course they won't be exposed to male subcultures. If they want to meet guys, go where the guys are. Get interested in the kind of things men are interested in. Don't be so self-absorbed.
Quote:On a date, one might hear about Taylor Swift concerts and astrological charts
The reverse is true too. Now that women populate an increasingly separate subculture, guys who want to meet girls need to show interest in girl stuff like Taylor Swift and astrological charts. (Except that Taylor Swift and astrological charts seem more like high-school girl things and probably won't interest the "most beautiful female friends" cohort.)
Quote:Perhaps all that has happened is that women of this generation simultaneously believe their elders about what men are and yet have continued to desire men. If men are monsters, if masculinity is a monstrosity, but women keep desiring men, and the more masculine the better, then women must desire monstrosity. This has a certain intuitiveness, and it helps to explain the seeming contradiction in the desires of ambitious self-proclaimed feminists like Romy being aroused by domination.
Yeah, I guess that feminism has screwed up a lot of women's heads. Given the baleful influence that homosexuality has on so much of popular culture (feminists and homosexuals are the Democratic party's two core constituencies), I'd guess that the goal is to turn as many women as possible into lesbians. But heterosexual women's (those horrible "cis"-women) sex drives keeps getting in the way of achieving that oh-so-"progressive" utopia where men are redundant (from the female perspective).
On one hand it's easy. Many/most lesbians aren't really sexually attracted by other women. It's more that they feel more comfortable socializing with other women. Women will pair up and form long term largely-platonic relationships with other women. It's feelings and relationships, which is the female thing. Except that heterosexual sex drive thing keeps screwing everything up.
And people wonder why the birth rate continues to plunge...
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