Thursday, February 08, 2007
Men? No!
Here's a fun column which illuminates something about the writer. I haven't seen the stuff it's referring to, but judging from the descriptions, there's something to be said about this comment:
It would be credulous to simply brush this off as boys being boys. Something about this new genre sells: Only a year ago his first book "I Hope they Sell Beer in Hell" made it to No. 26 on the New York Times Bestsellers list with over 100,000 copies sold. And while many would initially conclude that women would be repulsed by Max's stories, almost half of his readership is female, revealing his lessons as truly universal in both their repugnant and liberating appeal. Actually, I think it's popular precisely because it's "boys being boys." Our society has sought so hard to feminize men, that when the occasional guy acts like, well, a guy, it's shocking and revolutionary. And the women like it when dudes act like dudes.
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