tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374075192901571152.post985157266282997360..comments2023-06-19T07:57:22.562-07:00Comments on The Sparkle Project: The Boy Problem vs The Girl Problem.Ceilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12907094027256328115noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374075192901571152.post-66669731404747652582010-09-11T17:02:44.456-07:002010-09-11T17:02:44.456-07:00I absolutely agree with girls being weak in most p...I absolutely agree with girls being weak in most popular YA books now. There are some obvious exceptions, of course, but Twilight has really led to a 'dumbed down' audience. Your readers are as smart as you allow them to be.<br /><br />I know a TON of guys who are YA readers. Some of them are teens, some are twenty-somethings and some are in their THIRTIES. The one consistency I've found with them are that not a single one of them are even remotely attracted to Bella Swan. 'Brain-dead princess' is a term I've heard frequently among the fellas. This could also be because I've been lucky enough to surround myself with awesomesauce people and the boys/guys/men tend to like the smart, strong ladies rather than ones they have to coddle. :)Jessihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00259105489907516894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374075192901571152.post-47821871338154796822010-09-11T16:34:56.149-07:002010-09-11T16:34:56.149-07:00I hate using the tone argument but Moscowitz does ...I hate using the tone argument but Moscowitz does seem to be of the belief that the male POV is somehow better. Her blog is sort of strange; I agree with a lot of what she says but there's something about the way she writes that feels sort of...for lack of a better word, bitter. She's very wrong on the subject of YA for boys as Tamora Pierce proved with one effective smackdown.Ceilidhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12907094027256328115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374075192901571152.post-89408774583786990872010-09-11T15:52:03.403-07:002010-09-11T15:52:03.403-07:00I'm quite sure I read this a while ago on ontd...I'm quite sure I read this a while ago on ontd_feminism a while back. Am I imagining it or did she make a comment more or less implying that writing from a male POV was inherently better? Perhaps I'm misremembering or thinking of something else. Regardless, I was pretty put off by the generalization that guys don't read YA (speaking as a person whose closest YA-reading friend is a guy) and it more or less went downhill from there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com