tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post8940706518941029064..comments2024-03-29T00:37:50.644-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: Talk Amongst Yourselves - Why Boys Don't ReadTriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-68776121223500667712008-12-13T07:26:00.000-05:002008-12-13T07:26:00.000-05:00I don't know what they are talking about when they...I don't know what they are talking about when they say boys don't read. In my family all the men and boys love to read or just walk around with books in their paws. In my school the boys are often tracking me down insisting I find them the books they want to read. If there is a boy who doesn't like to read the problem is often with the adults around him that haven't figured out the right triggersAndromeda Jazmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355192738014962965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-6667129708351241232008-12-06T13:30:00.000-05:002008-12-06T13:30:00.000-05:00Ok, she's not a bonehead. I checked out her site ...Ok, she's not a bonehead. I checked out her site and she seems to have written some interesting books. That makes me wonder all the more why she takes such a narrow view of men and tossed off such a quick and thoughtless article. Sure, women generally read more books than men, but there are so many male writers (hence I assume they are also readers) that her argument is silly. And if you throwteacherninjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07690406470351639188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-66313768205733792852008-12-05T10:16:00.000-05:002008-12-05T10:16:00.000-05:00I agree that stereotypes and sweeping generalizati...I agree that stereotypes and sweeping generalizations never do much to solve problems. <BR/><BR/>At the same time, I don’t think you can ignore the issue just because your child or your child’s 5th cousin twice removed is an avid male reader. Boys have the potential to love books just as much as girls. But do they now...No. Gail’s use of an elephant as the spokes model for male reading is the Bearded Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06182921236123895352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-51293623881342940442008-12-04T07:56:00.000-05:002008-12-04T07:56:00.000-05:00Clicked on the link to see who the bonehead writer...Clicked on the link to see who the bonehead writer of that pap was and the opening lines caught my eye: "If you think this is one of those scholarly articles packed with facts and percentiles and references to government studies, stop reading. This piece is full of anecdotes and opinions."<BR/><BR/>Oh, good. Thanks for warning me that I can ignore you and your typing (I wouldn't call it writing).teacherninjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07690406470351639188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-68070657544703803942008-12-03T23:42:00.000-05:002008-12-03T23:42:00.000-05:00Um, no.I don't buy this. First of all, antecdotall...Um, no.<BR/>I don't buy this. <BR/>First of all, antecdotally, I know a whole heap of male readers, including my dad and my husband. And I'm pretty sure they'd be offended if they read this. But they can't put down their books to do so right now.<BR/>And second of all, some kids take to reading like a fish to water no matter who shows them (or doesn't show them) how. And, likewise, some are Liz Garton Scanlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17941516645386392684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-48124941673393070562008-12-03T18:15:00.000-05:002008-12-03T18:15:00.000-05:00Like your other commenters, I think this is awfull...Like your other commenters, I think this is awfully stereotyped and shallow. I grew up in a reading household; my dad read to us more than my mom, but both my parents are and always have been big readers. If anything, my mom's more of a "doer" than my dad--or she was until their retirement, anyway. In our house, both parents read (both to ourselves & to the kids). <BR/><BR/>Libbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406720496767981522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-33325263733692704232008-12-03T17:54:00.000-05:002008-12-03T17:54:00.000-05:00Like poemhome, I think the personality of the indi...Like poemhome, I think the personality of the individual boy is a huge part of it. And I also think it is false that boys don't want to be like their mothers, and reject everything they do. In my experience, if I were to take up, um, hand painting fans, or dried flower arranging, my boys would be right there with me. As usual. Their father, on the other hand, is too busy reading to have any Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15750715350958105088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-78296833224477206872008-12-03T17:14:00.000-05:002008-12-03T17:14:00.000-05:00I have one son who loves to read and one who doesn...I have one son who loves to read and one who doesn't, so I'm not sure about the significance of a male role model. I do know that video games are a huge distraction from reading. The recent book Boys Adrift speaks of an entire generation of boys who don't read, study, or interact because of video games.Douglas Florianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128165816863246403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-87904701846511069842008-12-03T15:19:00.000-05:002008-12-03T15:19:00.000-05:00Again. Whoa.This person discounts fathers, male te...Again. Whoa.<BR/>This person discounts fathers, male teachers and men who know how to read books on hunting -- and I know <I>plenty of them must, in order to learn more about it and entertain themselves outside of hunting season</I>. Just as any woman would just <I>bristle</I> at being thought to be controlled by her estrogen, and any teen girl would be deeply annoyed by a boy who sniped, "What'stanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.com