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Doesn't that, like, happens frequently with women (movie, book, like fashion or something) ? Or do dudes the same thing. Maybe it just felt natural for me being

Doesn't that, like, happens frequently with women (movie, book, like fashion or something) ? Or do dudes the same thing. Maybe it just felt natural for me being a dude.

pavel_lishin 9y ago
> Or do dudes the same thing. I don't know about you, but I binge read something like fifty Star Trek novels when I was a kid because that's what the library had. That was once I ran out of the other shitty sci-fi on offer, because I'd already read all the Asimov three times over. I think we think of women as doing this more because men tend to be employed more often than women, and once the kids are old enough to become self-sufficient - and/or shipped off to school - homemakers of both genders get more downtime to sit down and read.
- runevault 9y ago
  Yeah a non-trivial portion of the Romance market is stay at home moms who have down time while the kids are at school (obviously not all day with cooking/cleaning/etc) and they will read multiple books a week commonly. And on the guys front, plenty of guys read cheap thrillers that are all about explosions and blood without much prose behind them.
Spooky23 9y ago
Don’t know about you, but 80% of the people on line at 4 am for an iPhone 5 (last time I did it) were dudes. Also, Star Wars.
munificent 9y ago
> Or do dudes the same thing. Motor vehicles (muscle cars, Japanese sport bikes, Tesla, etc.), programming languages (JS, Lisp, Rust), liquor (vodka, whiskey, Moscow mules), electronics (hi-fi audio, pagers, TVs, smartphones), web frameworks (too many to list), beer styles ("imports", stouts, IPAs, Pilsners), grooming (sideburns, beards, mustaches), etc. As far as I can tell, the main difference between men chasing trends and women doing is that dudes sink way more money into it and take it way more seriously.
- ryanwaggoner 9y ago
  And about half of our hobbies have health or injury risks.
akamaozu 9y ago
Not a female, but growing up I read every Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Goosebumps book I could get my hands on. In my opinion this trait exists for all genders.

Doesn't that, like, happens frequently with women (movie, book, like fashion or something) ? Or do dudes the same thing. Maybe it just felt natural for me being a dude.

pavel_lishin 9y ago

> Or do dudes the same thing. I don't know about you, but I binge read something like fifty Star Trek novels when I was a kid because that's what the library had. That was once I ran out of the other shitty sci-fi on offer, because I'd already read all the Asimov three times over. I think we think of women as doing this more because men tend to be employed more often than women, and once the kids are old enough to become self-sufficient - and/or shipped off to school - homemakers of both genders get more downtime to sit down and read.

runevault 9y ago
Yeah a non-trivial portion of the Romance market is stay at home moms who have down time while the kids are at school (obviously not all day with cooking/cleaning/etc) and they will read multiple books a week commonly. And on the guys front, plenty of guys read cheap thrillers that are all about explosions and blood without much prose behind them.

Spooky23 9y ago

Don’t know about you, but 80% of the people on line at 4 am for an iPhone 5 (last time I did it) were dudes. Also, Star Wars.

munificent 9y ago

> Or do dudes the same thing. Motor vehicles (muscle cars, Japanese sport bikes, Tesla, etc.), programming languages (JS, Lisp, Rust), liquor (vodka, whiskey, Moscow mules), electronics (hi-fi audio, pagers, TVs, smartphones), web frameworks (too many to list), beer styles ("imports", stouts, IPAs, Pilsners), grooming (sideburns, beards, mustaches), etc. As far as I can tell, the main difference between men chasing trends and women doing is that dudes sink way more money into it and take it way more seriously.

ryanwaggoner 9y ago
And about half of our hobbies have health or injury risks.

akamaozu 9y ago

Not a female, but growing up I read every Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Goosebumps book I could get my hands on. In my opinion this trait exists for all genders.