Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Older Men, Younger Women, and Why Philip K. Dick could whoop Judy Blume's Ass

I found this article on Fark, and read it out of morbid curiosity. There is a good deal of jumping about from topic to topic, but finally she makes a good point, and the lady's point seems to be something like: girls should read "real" books, not the stuff targeted at teenage girls, and certainly not the crap like "Men are Mars, Women Wish They Had a Penis" (Did I get that title right?). Her contention is that reading this sort of stuff ends up making it more difficult for girls, as they grow into women, to bridge the "gender gap" and develop fulfilling relationships with men.

I don't know about all of that stuff, but if the writer likes Philip K. Dick, she can't be all wrong (or all sane, for that matter).

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