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Originally Posted by Tarana
As to the argument of what men and women read, ask any marketer and they will tell you with proof that men and women read different things along a gender line.There is some splashover, but political correctness won't change it.
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Just like misuse of the phrase "Political Correctness" doesn't have the power to to dismiss arguments that people want to paint with that particularly worn out brush.
And you forget that book marketing has as much (maybe more) to do with what books a publisher
wants to sell to people, as it does with what many people might want to buy. The "gender line" when it comes to reading (or any habits or preferences) is very wide and very gray.
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Originally Posted by Tarana
I see it in my own experience of what others choose, although I admit I am only looking at my age group (50+) and older.
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And therein lies a big part of the problem: little groups of people looking at the habits of their little tribes and thinking they have their finger on the pulse of the entire clan.
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Originally Posted by Tarana
But I totally agree with the comment - men get hung up on factual errors that simply should not be there.
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That's nonsense. Even if you managed to find a majority in your sampling that it applied to, that would never represent "men." And it wouldn't count the women who were annoyed by factual errors that weren't polled.