From the article: “[The publishers who voluntarily decided to adhere to this campaign] agreed that they will no longer publish books specifically titled “for boys” or “for girls””. So, unless your pet book there is Navigating Menopause for Girls or Prostate Cancer for Boys (or vice versa), I think you can dial down the concern. It was rather clear in both Corey’s piece and the original article that they’re talking about children’s books.
Seriously, why is it so important to so many readers that a book say in its title who is supposed to read it? Is this the lousy legacy of too many years of “(insert skill set here) for Dummies” that we no longer dare to dream of just putting the title and letting people decide whether it’s pertintent to them?
If you all are so certain that sex-differenced books are still relevant, why not lay off the kids and start off with an adult book called Listening for Dudes, where you could finally hear all those girls and women who keep stating that gender differentiation most often leaves them with the short end of the stick.
