Diantha McBride, you might have 30 years’ experience as a librarian. But when you told publishers to make more main characters boys so that more boys will read about them, you gave me no choice.

This idea stinks.

I get where you’re coming from. But the problem isn’t the books, it’s the way we’re raising our boys. If they aren’t willing to read about girls, and if we’re indulging that sort of nonsense, then we are raising boys who will have a hard time functioning in a world where girls play serious roles. In other words, the real world.

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Are We Letting Boys Be Book Bigots? - MSN Movies News (via librarianpirate)

YES YES YES, a thousand times yes.

I also love this quote:

“My guess is that most people would be embarrassed to admit they wouldn’t buy a book because the main character wasn’t white. Why we’re more comfortable denigrating books with female characters is a mystery. Whenever we cross a book off the list because it isn’t about people like us, though, we should be ashamed. And we shouldn’t let our kids get away with this.”