Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-disappearance-of-literary-men-should-worry-everyone.1055082/

Majority of posts are..
Men suck 
or
I'm very well read 

It's very amusing how articles like this first need a disclaimer about "actually men suck" only to end "actually it's so important to have men write"

To be clear, I welcome the end of male dominance in literature. Men ruled the roost for far too long, too often at the expense of great women writers who ought to have been read instead. I also don't think that men deserve to be better represented in literary fiction; they don't suffer from the same kind of prejudice that women have long endured. Furthermore, young men should be reading Sally Rooney and Elena Ferrante. Male readers don't need to be paired with male writers.
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But if you care about the health of our society — especially in the age of Donald Trump and the distorted conceptions of masculinity he helps to foster — the decline and fall of literary men should worry you.
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These young men need better stories — and they need to see themselves as belonging to the world of storytelling. Novels do many things. They entertain, inspire, puzzle, hypnotize. But reading fiction is also an excellent way to improve one's emotional I.Q. Novels help us form our identities and understand our lives. Like many other bookish Gen X-ers, I can't conceive of my formative years without the Douglas Coupland novel that gave our generation its name. This is why we need a more inclusive literary culture, one that will bring young men in from the cold.

Always with these people it's this idea that you can't have one thing without eliminating the other. 

There is absolutely no reason female writers can't exist alongside male writers. None at all. Why must male writers be marginalised and excluded for women to be heard?