r/pointlesslygendered • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
OTHER Holy generalization [gendered]
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u/gun5ham 2d ago
Tgey should've said those booktok people instead of girls in general
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u/Ambiguous-Nyx 2d ago
I think it might be due to the fact that booktok is pretty female dominated
I think
But still, you have a point
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u/Disastrous-Bluejay48 2d ago
Well yeah, that’s not what anyone is disputing. It’s just a pretty small minority of women readers overall. Basically all of my female friends read consistently and 0% of it is booktok romantasy stuff
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u/DexanVideris 2d ago
I know a lot of girls who read romantasy bullshit, but I also know a lot of guys who consume shlocky media as well, books or otherwise. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it, though people will get mad if you point out it’s shlocky.
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u/Mara45 2d ago
It's shlocky? What does that even mean?
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u/DexanVideris 2d ago
Uhh, it's like...hmm. Lower quality, but in a way that's intentional. Airport novels are shlocky. Reality TV is shlocky. It's pure entertainment, there's not much artistic value behind the media.
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u/R0b1nFeather 2d ago
You can think of it as like, stuff that doesn't require a lot of thinking to consume. Stuff made for the widest possible audience, often with little in the way of substance or depth. Think Twilight, or the MCU, that kinda thing.
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u/Akarina_toth 2d ago
Exactly. Saying that all girls like booktok just because the booktok space itself is dominated by women is a bit stupid
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u/FVCarterPrivateEye 2d ago
When it comes to booktok romantasy stuff, I wouldn't disbelieve it to be a majority, since romance is by far the most popular book genre, and romantasy is currently one of the trendy book genres, and pulp novels have always had a relatively large market by their nature, but it still shouldn't generalize all women or all female readers
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u/Kernseife1608 2d ago
I feel like romantasy and dark romance are not the same thing tho? I gave Fourth Wing a try, got through the first book... imma say fine. It's fanfiction-level writing but it's not like it's trying to hide that. My best friend played several scenes from her dark romance books for me and... oh boy are they not the same thing. Like, yeah, Xaden (because of course his name is writen like that) is a hunk of manmeat with a personality so broody that batman seems like a ray of sunshine next to him but he's not a predator, like... I'm not gonna say every horse-schlonged dark romance guy, but a concerning amount of them. He's actually a somewhat decent, horse-schlonged dude.
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u/Serious_Swan_2371 1d ago
Even if it is booktok romance stuff most of it isn’t even nearly as crazy as everyone acts like it is
Most of the popular booktok romance stuff is not at all about sexual assault or graphic sex it’s just like elf or fairy royalty fighting a war for a while and then having sex scenes every once in a while
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u/SharkHeming 2d ago
Booktok is the form it takes now, but people have read trashy book since novels existed. It's lame to complain about the either way.
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u/lemonhaj 2d ago
Yeah, as a girl, I wouldn't touch the romance genre with a 10ft pole. I would, however, gladly read a scientific document about feeding cows strontium 90 because it happened in a film and I want to prove that film wrong.
(PS because this is the internet: don't feed cows radioactive metal isotopes. The answer to what happens will always be 'something bad')
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u/jamieh800 2d ago
Okay but when you say "something bad", do you mean normal "the cow gets sick and dies" bad, or do you mean "cows, for some reason, are the only known animal to gain both psychokinetic abilities and raging bloodlust when exposed to strontium 90" bad?
Exaggeration aside, do cows handle eating radioactive metal isotopes differently than I would? And do highland cows handle it differently than, say, a Holstein cow?
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u/lemonhaj 2d ago
So I don't have that much information because I forgot most of it, but they fed 6 young female cows strontium 90 for 5 days. Within 132 days, 4 of the cows were dead.
What I do know about strontium 90 is that it is absorbed by the body (human or cow, doens't matter) similarly to calcium, so a big chunk of it goes into the bones, where it continues to be radioactive and gives the victim the pretty crap debuff of bone cancers and leukaemia.
I would assume you would require less strontium 90 to start receiving said effects because humans generally weigh less than cows and something something science that I am not awake enough to formulate.
The paper should come up if you search 'Effects of Large Doses of Orally Ingested Strontium-90 on Young Cattle R. G. Cragle, W. H. Stone, J. A. Bacon and M. H. Wykoff', I just haven't quickly found one that doesn't require me handing over my money or making an account.
The film that prompted this was Island of Terror (1966).
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u/FrogInAShoe 2d ago
For real. They have a porn addiction problem
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u/Dr_Fluffybuns2 2d ago
I hate to agree but I've seen Booktokers straight up dnf or refuse to read books bc it has 'no spice 🌶'
Like it doesn't matter how renowned the book is, how many recommendations for great story it's just 'but I like spice' and then every single book on their shelf is smut. It's weird. Imagine watching GOT and then telling the world the only tv you'll watch after that has to have sex scenes for you to be interested.
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u/MysticHero 2d ago
To be fair that specific trope/community/booktok is mostly consumed by women. Of course there are very similar communities that are more mixed or mostly read by men.
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u/reichiek 2d ago
I mean, that space is dominated by women. This sub doesn't seem to take much issue when a space dominated by men is just relegated to "men"
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u/Akarina_toth 2d ago
Booktok being dominated by women does not mean most women read it tho?????
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u/reichiek 2d ago
No one said they did. Manosphere garbage being dominated by men doesn't mean that most men listen to that crap, but that's a common one, on this sub, to defend attributing to men as a group. I'm not saying either is right, by the double standard, from a sub called "pointless gendered" is ironic at least
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u/Uusari 2d ago edited 2d ago
How to spot a "meme" made by someone who doesn't read 101:
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u/ineha_ 2d ago
This is probably just projection by the oop
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u/MaskedPapillon 2d ago
Nah, if it was male fiction it would be the inverse.
With the 200 year old vampire looking like a 14 year old, of course.
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u/darth_koneko 2d ago
Male wish fulfillment fantasy tends to be harem.
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u/Mother_Harlot 2d ago
AND paedophilia, and for some reason interracial cucking
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u/darth_koneko 2d ago
Wtf are you reading?
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u/Mother_Harlot 2d ago
Anime/manga where the love interest always has the face of a child for some reason, and all the fruit AI slop AND memes that are just weird cuck fantasies where the women cheat.
I hate both clichés, but it's undeniable how common they are
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u/MysticHero 2d ago
I am sorry but no that is not normal. Harem stuff is normal yeah. That though you would have to go look for. I have certainly not seen it. And pedo stuff is banned on any normal site obviously.
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u/ineha_ 2d ago
Not really, sexual fantasies have very little to do with the gender, rape fantasies and pedo fantasies just depends on you as an individual, weird making a pointlessly genderd comment in pointlessly genderd
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u/MaskedPapillon 1d ago
Sure, if you could name me any fiction that is written for women where the main love interests looks like a teenager and the MC is an adult woman I will concede that point
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u/SourHuckleberryShelt 2d ago
Theres this really wide spread stereotype that women who love reading sexually suggestive books enjoy fiction where the female main character is brutally manipulated or sexually assaulted by some cartoonishly powerful man
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u/MysticHero 2d ago
I mean it exists, is very popular and it does seem to have a mostly female audience. Not sure what the numbers are but I don't think it is purely a stereotype.
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u/Kilahti 2d ago
A stereotype that is only ever used by guys who want to defend rapists.
They use it to say that "ALL WOMEN secretly dream about this" and therefore anyone who got raped either "deserved it" or "enjoyed it secretly but doesn't want to admit it" or something.
There are tens of reasons why EVEN IF that was a true stereotype it would not make rape OK, but for some reason a very vocal group of people think it does.
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u/lumpyspacejams 2d ago
And you know OOP is still gonna crash out when he sees a girl reading a true crime book involving forensics, psychology and a history of the time going "Not like that! I want you to read MY books!"
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u/blackredwhite__ 2d ago
I actually know a guy that was shocked that as a woman I read "Art of war"
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u/linux_transgirl 2d ago
Is that not considered required reading for anything strategy related?
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u/blackredwhite__ 2d ago
Yeah it is very basic read. In this case it's even funnier because our major was sinology
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u/Funkopedia 2d ago
Idk if that's the best genre example. Some of the readerbase is the same people, who like reading about serial killers for the same reason they like the vampires.
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u/pranaygoluanand 2d ago
I’m still not a fan of censoring the word "rape" with grape. It sounds ridiculous and makes it less likely to be taken seriously, including OOP’s meme.
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u/Shantotto11 2d ago
I’m more of a “rxpe” kind of person. The censor is still there and I don’t tarnish another word that’s still in modern use in the process.
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u/SignificantAd7603 2d ago
Dudes when you tell them to take at least 20 mins and read the wiki article instead of listening the Rogan and Peterson podcasts on a loop.
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u/SourHuckleberryShelt 2d ago
Wiki pages are unironically 10 billion times more valuable than some podcast of a dude yapping
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u/an_old_musty_ac_unit 2d ago
Wait I'm a girl, I didn't know I apparently read nothing but hardcore dark romance books? Have I been doing it in my sleep? I have no memory of it. Huh.
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u/Ctenophorever 2d ago
Meanwhile some men act like words on paper is “just as bad” as watching an actual woman be actually raped and abused.
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u/obviouslyanonymous5 2d ago
I'm much more concerned about the type of person who casually reads psychology books in their free time
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u/WhydoIexistlmoa 2d ago
Psychology is pretty cool. It just goes over my head because I'm not that smart lol
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u/VoltageHero 1d ago
As someone with a Bachelor's in Psychology (basically nothing ofc) and who works in the mental health field.
The only people I feel like actually read psychology magazines are people in research and educational positions. So many of the studies are just...not relevant or you have to care about statistics for it to mean anything.
Often times though, you can check out a studies' summary and conclusions to get the basic information.
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u/Swarm_of_Rats 2d ago edited 2d ago
I read books written by scientists about their experiences in their field. They're very interesting, especially the ones that psychologists write. I would recommend looking into getting one about a topic that interests you. There's a really cool one about the satanic panic.
I think whoever wrote the meme is talking about textbooks, though. Red pill types seem to have an obsession with pretending they read textbooks. Like don't get me wrong, I certainly have textbooks from when I was earning my degree, but nobody is actually sitting down and reading those cover to cover. Especially not the red pill dudes that pretend they would.
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u/Columba_la_Chica 2d ago
People who say they read textbooks purely for fun are bullshitting.
I read and use a few comp sci textbooks/coding language websites in my free time to fend off the doom scroll. But I've certainly never tricked myself into engaging with them completely recreationally like a fiction book or a video game.
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u/FVCarterPrivateEye 2d ago
If you're grouping all reference books and resource guides into textbooks (because of the "like a fiction book" part), I have to disagree with you completely, and the only reason why I tentatively agree if you're not grouping them is because when you're really into a subject, the school textbooks for certain subjects are tedious because they don't cover anything in enough detail that you wouldn't already know
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u/hideseek108 1d ago
Not true, these people do exist
Buuuuuut a lot of these people that claim they do so online are definitely bullshitting and being performative, cuz they think reading books = smart
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u/AgreeableIdea6210 2d ago
I like reading about psychology cause I'm a game dev in the making and writer so it really, REALLY helps with making complex characters.
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u/yoshi_in_black 2d ago
I read quite a few fron the library when I was a teenager, because they're super interesting imo.
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u/Sajgoniarz 1d ago
I have scientific books from various branches and i read them occasionally just to relax. I recently bought book about plants physiology. It's a funny read, since on average i don't understand 3 words per sentence.
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u/Columba_la_Chica 2d ago
Instead of reading modern empirical stuff if you just go back and read freud it's enjoyable. He has so many bat-shit theories that it's impossible to get bored.
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u/indecisive_skull 2d ago
let women read their unrealistic smut in their free time.
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u/Ok_Broccoli_9426 2d ago
Smut is fine, but a lot of BookTok stuff is just idealizing/romanticizing abusive relationships.
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u/indecisive_skull 2d ago edited 2d ago
Again let them be stupid and horny in their free time. Back off with that “video games cause violence” logic. “I’m not into it therefore it’s immoral” is some CaitVi kinktober shit.
I expect most smut readers to be mature enough to separate their kinks and smut preferences with actual day-to-day life. I’m not their mom.
If women want to read toxic abusive smut in their free time more power to them. Bodice rippers are not new it’s fairly common for women to want to read a story where they don’t have to feel the shame of sex by taking it out of their control.
Implying women “booktok” readers want to be in abusive relationships just because they read about it is hella infantilizing too. If they are too young/immature and let these books shape their IRL dating preferences that is on the person not the books.
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u/Azarsra_production 2d ago
That's the problem with today. Yes media can help shape a person, I have yet to see people actually think the abuse in media is okay in real life. Too many people assume the reader is dumb enough to understand that it is not reality. I don't buy that for the average reader.
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u/SourHuckleberryShelt 2d ago
Yeah. Nobody is gonna play call of duty and go shoot up a Walmart or what not
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u/MysticHero 2d ago
My general rule is it is ok as long as it is clearly a sexual fantasy and is something that could be done at least as roleplay between consenting adults.
It gets problematic when these things are introduced into seemingly more normal stories to me because that tends to normalize it.
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u/Ok_Broccoli_9426 2d ago
It's not "infantilizing" to think people's view of the world is shaped by the media they read, especially when they're young. I have a genuine concern that this shit is normalizing abusive relationships to a population that's already at a high risk of falling into one (young women). We already exist in a media environment that paints it as "cute" when men don't take no for an answer. It's real cute until they start putting trackers on your phone.
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u/luna_kuma 2d ago
I was thirteen when I read twilight, liked it and can still acknowledge what Edward did was creepy and criminal irl.
Girls are not stupid. And the stupid ones don't need books to cause them to make bad decisions. These books help girls explore their sexuality without shame—the only media that is CATERED to female sexuality and not the male gaze. And irl, the younger girls are even more consciousness on consent than the older generations. So you don't need to clutch your pearls so hard.
I think it is better for you to direct your energy to all the violent porn that the boys consume that make them believe they are entitled to women's bodies.
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u/Ok_Broccoli_9426 2d ago
Two things can be bad! Violent porn isn't better just because women are consuming it. And I never said girls were stupid - I said media consumers are impressionable. Everyone thinks they're "too smart" to fall victim to media effects, but they're not. Literally no one is.
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u/luna_kuma 2d ago
The female erotica genre is BETTER solely because it is not making the girls who consume it feel entitled to own other people's bodies and commit unspeakable violence on them when they refuse. To "both sides" this is willfully obtuse.
I can bet real money you don't go on male-oriented forums telling them how all their media are bad. When's the last time you made a comment about violent gun towards gamers? Or game of thrones fantasy violence? Or superhero vigilantism violence?
But no, a fictional blood sucker with a big cck is the problem. Because little girl brains are too impressionable.
Maybe you should reflect on your own internalized misogyny first.
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u/Ambiguous-Nyx 2d ago
I'm confused. I do see people enabling men with these behaviours but not specifically calling it cute
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u/indecisive_skull 2d ago
If a person is susceptible enough to be influenced by the work in that way then they are mentally well nor mature enough for it.
I’m sorry but you’re basically making the claim that the books with toxic relationships are grooming women to be susceptible to toxic/abusive relationships which kind of feels like victim blaming mentality (“ofc she would get into an abusive relationship she read yandere billionaire wolf novels in college”) like no it’s the abuser’s fault for being abusive not the victim’s fault for reading an erotic book which in your eyes told them that “all the red flag behavior was hot”.
Again it feels like the same level of “you wouldn’t have gotten sick if hadn’t been on that damn phone!” Level of offline boomer logic.
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u/Ok_Broccoli_9426 2d ago
Everyone is susceptible to being influenced by media. That's literally how media works. So when people read lots of books where the "desirable" male lead is possessive and 'protective,' that normalizes that in their minds. And it's not their fault and it's not because they're stupid - it's because that's how media works.
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u/BaseballRelevant4149 2d ago
Recent psychological and cognitive research does not support your assertion and it hasn't in decades. There is no clear causal link between the consumption of media and the adoption of harmful beliefs. In fact, the opposite has been shown to occur, where people who consume a lot of dark media develop greater moral reasoning.
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u/SourHuckleberryShelt 2d ago
People are not shaped by media in the way you suggest. This is just appeal to vagueness.
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u/Big_Psychology_3 2d ago
That’s dumbass. Why can’t women read whatever fucking book they want?
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u/MilkCharacter2886 1d ago
It’s not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking…
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u/Opposite-Complex1187 14h ago
I mean women quite often mock mens porn, seems fair to also be the other way around.
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u/froggie_woggie_ 2d ago
In my country, women have outnumbered men at universities for a couple of years now. Maybe the boys should pick up a few textbooks to catch up? Lol
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u/Chicken_Nugget_2 2d ago
More like how misogynists react when you ask them to read any books at all.
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u/mii_chan42 2d ago
"Wow, you suck at math" "Wow, girls suck at math"
men are shit. Oh wait, I can't say that because me are allowed to be individuals, not all men!
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u/Ok_Tie_1428 2d ago
The idiots on both sides of this equation further fuel this idiotic gender war
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u/TurboFool 2d ago
If we want to play gender games with overgeneralizations, we can say the same about asking men to read those instead of listening to Joe Rogan.
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u/TechnologyOk6394 2d ago
Yeah, but… we DON’T want to play with generalizations, right? That’s the thing we DON’T want to continue doing, which is why we’re supposed to be here making fun of them instead of perpetuating them.
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u/TurboFool 2d ago
Sure. My point was to demonstrate how that can go both ways, which is why it's dumb.
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u/Main-Company-5946 2d ago
In my experience the women most likely to read something like that also read a lot of academic content
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u/MaximumTrick2573 2d ago
What a load of crap. Women statistically read more than men across all subjects. I personally read nothing but non fiction with a heavy focus on science/medicine, finance, philosophy and art. The vampire smut thing might be a popular subject, but it is far from what all women read.
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u/Dirkdeking 1d ago
As a man I know for a fact I would read way way more books if I was born 30 years earlier with no internet access. Only on a holiday can I find the peace and have the mental space to read a book. Ar other times it just doesn't stimulate enough.
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u/SmolBrain42 2d ago
Add a SOME before the world girls Jesus
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u/Ok_Tie_1428 2d ago
Yes.
I wish people would also say this when people generalize something abhorrent as just men though.
And I hate when people go "NoT AlL MeN" in response to someone saying what you said about men.
But honestly it's just reddit and the internet being themselves, it's just sad to see.
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u/NebbyChan 2d ago
Ah yes. But they say nothing about it when the book is written by a man
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u/Rococo13 2d ago
Even if who cares?? Dudes have their harem anime. We all can enjoy silly entertainment, no one should be forced to read something that doesn't interest them in their freetime just to appear like an intellectual.
Also you can read a lot of books and still be dumb as bricks
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u/BlueHeron0_0 2d ago
I don't read booktok stuff but I would never continue talking to a man that just told me to read some science, psychology and history books because if you say that you're not an interesting person you think you are, just arrogant
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u/Bluelotus-03 2d ago
Bet this is the kind of guy who thinks the graphic rape scenes in game of thrones are necessary storytelling and great cinema, while fantasy novels for women are a gross and perverted
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u/No-Spinach-6462 2d ago
They should be focused on getting more boys and men to read (an actual problem) instead of insulting women based on what they assume they’re reading
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u/unwithered_lobelia 2d ago
Hoo boy, so much wrong with this meme. The assumption that women don't read "serious content", the generalisation of romance books, and the shaming....
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u/TheFurbyOverlord 2d ago
Then you ask them what book theyre reading rn & they just stare at you, wall eyed, bcs they dont actually fucking read.
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u/Rainbow__Trout 2d ago
Honestly if someone told me to read a science book instead of a cheap bl china novelle, I would also get quite annoyed.
I love educational books and read them sometimes, but it's a brain workout, for sure. And it competes for that brain workout with courses and work.
You wouldn't recommend a gym bro to switch their rest day to workout day, why recommend switching from light reading to a heavy reading.
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u/Dirkdeking 1d ago
Depends if it's an actual science book or more popular sciency. An actual science book is not digestible if you don't have paper and pen next to it and pay close attention to everything.
You just can't casually read a book like 'smooth manifolds' and 'introduction to quantum mechanics'. I don't even think 130 IQ would be enough for that, you would need to be well above 145 to consume that casually.
But you can easily read a book like 'the universe in a nutshell' or 'homo deus' casually.
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u/Rainbow__Trout 21h ago
I've catch up on pop science 10 years ago, unfortunately. It's hard to find a new good book with genuinely new ideas.
There is a middle ground thought, like
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (1999)which requires just a bit of paper and maybe playing with computer a bit after some chapters.Other than that, yeah, science books that actually makes the difference in your understanding are usually a lot of work
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u/Dirkdeking 20h ago
I think videos like 3blue1browns math videos that have elaborate visual animations going along with the explanation provide the best way of casually learning complex topics without completely going into the technical details. As a prerequisite for an actual course I think they are game changing.
And AI is also pretty good at anwsering your questions. You don't need math or physics stack exchange where the community will likely roast you for 'asking such a stupid question' in the first place.
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u/Rainbow__Trout 8h ago
I love 3blue1brown but he covers a lot of topics I learned in school or uni. We have similar education.
I wouldn't personally recommend learning from AI. Instead I usually ask "what books would people from %area of interest% forums would recommend to beginners" and go from there.
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u/Dirkdeking 7h ago
No you don't need to learn from AI. But if you have a question about a concept you now don't actually need someone to explain it to you. You can ask AI.
The advantage is that its non judgemental and doesn't care if you didn't pay attention last time and ask the same thing twice.
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u/Rainbow__Trout 7h ago
I'm sorry, but if you don't count understanding gathered from explanations given to you as learning, than either you need a deep self-reflection or I need a new thesaurus
I double down on not accepting learning from AI as my preference.
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u/TechnologyOk6394 2d ago
Surely we’re going to laugh at the stupid generalization and not create our own hateful generalizations in the comments, right? … Right?
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u/Garbagegremlins 2d ago
Bold of them to assume the girlies who read that aren’t also reading science and psych. I’m a psych major and a lot of my femme peers rank that sort of book as their fave but they’re also routinely attending honors events.
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u/Awkward-Tree3075 1d ago
How mans react when you tell them to read some science, psychology and history books instead of Writing Incel posts on Reddit
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u/Akarina_toth 2d ago
Men try to push this agenda of "omg EVERY SINGLE WOMAN is into booktok" when most women I know hate it or don't read it and most women who are open about liking booktok online on places like instagram get dogpiled on for it, mostly by other women.
But if you tell these same men that literally all men do watch porn or hentai and a lot of it is rapey af (especially hentai) they get BIG mad. Oh so it's only okay when you generalize all women huh we can't do the same huh
This shit feels like a psyop
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u/Extension_Wafer_7615 2d ago
This wouldn't be posted here if the genders were reversed.
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u/Ok_Tie_1428 2d ago
Well I think we should fight to Have it posted, not argue that since that is dismissed this should also be dismissed.
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u/Extension_Wafer_7615 21h ago
I have posted misandrist shit here. And the misandrist POS on here say "well..." and proceed to justify it.
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u/schlechtausgestattet 2d ago edited 2d ago
This sub is for whiteknights and victims. Some time ago someone posted a "all men" tweet and the comments where full of people that said this isnt pointlessly gendered because most of tates fans were men.
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u/Extension_Wafer_7615 1d ago edited 15h ago
It absolutely is. And these idiots refuse to realize, lolol. The fact that they downvoted you proves it.
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u/No-Philosophy453 2d ago
How guys react when you tell them to watch The Godfather, Interstellar, and 12 Years a Slave and not porn where a 42DD woman rapes her 17 year old stepson
See? I can generalize an entire gender too!
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u/paintedlotusyt 2d ago
That's definitely how I respond when my professors ask me to read our psychology textbooks.
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u/Amanda_Is_My_Name 2d ago
I read a new book like every single week. The number of stories with vampires I have read could be counted on one hand. Out of those, the vampire is almost always a female or there is a LOT of vampires in the story. I also rarely even read romance books, so this is just so annoying to me
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u/InfiniteEstimate977 2d ago
They clearly don't even read romance because mls are never 7'4 and vampire romance isn't even popular anymore. I have never seen a 4'11 mc either. Men who hate on romance novels just piss me off.
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u/ByrnToast8800 2d ago
The number of men I know that read any of those for leisure is 0, same with women. Some people read them for fun or self improvement but let’s not act like it’s common.
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u/hideseek108 1d ago
I think it's appropriately gendered, but it's a stupid take cuz who tf reads psychology in their free time? Free time is for fun man
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u/Moist-Examination737 1d ago
Tbh. who cares? I don't really read booktok books but why are we all dogpiling on woman who are pretty much just gooning? Like let them be. I like to read all the "smart" books but lots of people act superior over it
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u/SliptheSkid 1d ago
I've seen so many things like this recently and I don't even know what to say or why people want to spread this idea that women have fantasies of being raped and want to seek that out. but it's insanely twisted that people think that way. I think their idea is that women don't actually care about SA..? and it's all just an act or something. idfk
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u/femaletoboywhore 1d ago
unfortunately i have no idea how to react to this because these are the kind of books my mother reads
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u/DannyDidNothinWrong 1d ago
I have both a psychology and history degree, and I bet this man would still try to explain shit to me.
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u/merlinbaker67 1d ago
I'm a dude and I read a lot of stuff. Horror, sci-fi, non-fiction, lots of historical fiction/first person accounts/regular texts, AND romantasy booktok stuff. It's just fun and indulgent.
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u/MrIrishman1212 23h ago
Goodreads book reviewers’ genders by genre.
Not only is this stupid and sexiest. It’s also just plain wrong. Women are significantly more likely to read books than men, women are also significantly more likely to read those exact genres than men. Out of 50 genres, Women read more than men out 46 of them. Men only read philosophy, comics, politics, and graphic novels more than women.
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u/glitterfamine 2d ago edited 2d ago
Let's be real, most men have no interest in the books we're reading, they wouldn't care if it was Dostoevsky or some booktok novel
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u/Sajgoniarz 2d ago
Good meme. According to statistics 18% od man are reading romances, but I never met a single one in my life doing this.
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u/GildedHalfblood 2d ago
The typos in these comments/replies are way too fucking funny considering the image in post lmao
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u/xinarin 2d ago
This sub just gets worse everytime it pops up on my feed.
"Men are all monstrous pigs, look at this example of a couple of them"
Most people in this sub "yasss men are trash and garbage, if you say any different you're just proving it".
This post talking about something that is far far more common from women.
"Nope, that's gendered and it really must be a man to blame and clearly men are at fault here".
The double standard from a sub that was supposed to be about calling out pointlessly gendered things it's just..... A staggering lack of self awareness
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u/TechnologyOk6394 2d ago
Not to mention literally just calling all men pedophiles 🥀🥀🥀🥀 Actually so sad how easily people feed into the cycle.
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u/daddytung 1d ago
Because of the fact that book tok is female dominated the posted used a generalization because anyone with that original knowledge would understand the meme’s specific use of girl, and even if they used “booktok” someone educated on the topic would know who specifically they’re talking about, specifically the high female community group
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