Roselyn Jane Montgomery

This person dug through the comments on the post I made yesterday, extracted this detailed message I shared with someone else about one of the comments I saw that prompted my own post, and linked it to her own page, laughing, for farm engagement. This is what we were up against.

Someone commented hostilely on the post I made yesterday, but through ongoing conversation we were able to identify the real problem together and foster true understanding. This is what needs to happen if we hope to save an entire generation of boys from illiteracy.

Follow up in regards to my post yesterday. I witnessed several comments inciting violence against little boys in regards to this reading discourse. My generic statement of others wanting to force them to read girl books left out a lot of grizzly details included in their posts 🧵

Many women support forcing young boys to read girl-centric stories so that they can “learn empathy” for females. That is disgusting. Removing a boy’s agency to learn on his own terms with stories written specifically for them just to “better understand girls” is extremely wrong.

We need to have a serious conversation about adult women in teen literary spaces. The YA crossover category should not exist. Upper YA, lower YA and NA are not clear distinctions, it’s one big melting pot of “teen“ readers, and these books sit next to each other on the same shelf