![]() I think it's a mistake to say that these books aren't for young adult boys. Publishers are neglecting the YA male audience and then there are fewer titles to review, and thus fewer to recommend." (And, yes, I know that literature has been predominately pitched to a certain type of majority character for a long time.but that doesn't mean that everything featuring those majority-representation characters needs to have a decades' worth of dust on it.)ĭeb wrote: "I see this time and again - lots of titles for YA girls, and few for YA boys. Unfortunately, this means that those whose "type" isn't on-trend can be left without new books where they can find someone who, on a statistical level, represents themselves, and this can be as true for a straight white boy as it can be for a queer black non-binary kid, does matter. ![]() Trends in literature tend to lead to gobs of one type of book and scant amounts off others-both writers and publishers want to put out what they're pretty sure can sell, understandably enough. The fact that there are audiences from the not-a-straight-white-boy populations that are hungry to see themselves, in some iteration, on the page has driven the production and publication of more literature that focuses on those groups. We often talk about representation in all sorts of arts.the main character was so predominately the strong straight white male for a long time, and there wasn't a lot for girls or people of color or non-straight, non-cis, non-straight-white-guy-who-likes-football-or-whatever-the-stereotype-is. ![]()
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