In yesterday’s Salon article, “Why Men Don’t Read,” Laura Miller quotes a blogger who “made the Möbius-strip-like argument that if today’s men were truly manly they wouldn’t be scared away from reading by its reputation for unmanliness.”
And then she goes on to make a fine Möbius Strip of her own, saying that in the publishing industry, editors’ salaries are so low because most editors are women. Besides content, the only thing the article is missing is that blameless and vapid phrase, “Well, I’m just sayin’…”
Read the rest of the article here.
Tags: miscellany, publishing
