Great article in reply to some New York Times freakout or another: http://saundramitchell.com/blog/2011/08/20/the-problem-is-not-the-books/.
I’ve stopped reading the big newspapers lamenting about how women are bad for books or books for women are bad for the world or whatever. I get the feeling they’re just ramping up publishing those things because they’ve figure female readers are the only people who will flock to talk about their newspaper if outraged, yet are unlikely to send a pipe bomb, or a lawsuit.
I am amazed by this whole “but there’s only stuff for girls” attitude. It pops up pretty regularly, in the most amazing places, phrased so you might miss the inherent wtf of the argument on first perusal. It’s everywhere from the complaints about breast cancer awareness getting more attention than prostate cancer to complaining about the selection of car seat covers in Target.
(Not that I think better prostate cancer awareness is a bad thing, but really, the solution to improve it isn’t to bitch about breast cancer awareness.)