“…when the federal Department of Canadian Heritage surveyed Canadian reading habits last year, it found a distinct gender gap. Women accounted for 60 per cent of the daily readers and 70 per cent of the heavy readers who had read 50 or more books in the last 12 months. Women also outnumbered men two to one as regular readers of both classic and contemporary novels.”
How patently absurd. Without even searching, I can think of 5 men I know who read a lot. I may not agree with what they read (i.e. how much does anyone need to know about Caligula and Roman orgies?) but the point is they read books.
I’m helping my nephew along this path. For his upcoming 18th birthday, I’ve gotten him A Guide to Gangster Movies and Frank Vincent’s Guy’s Guide to be a Man’s Man. The young man is in a heavy Scorsese phase right now. Has watched Casino more times than I can count. Yeah, I’m a proud auntie.
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I'm not worried about that. He's made it very clear he thinks the open shirts and the gold chains and big pinkie rings are awful.
For once, I'm glad he's so conservative.
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