The Problem of Feminizing Education and The Necessity of Fiction

Men Need Examples, Women Cannot Provide it

Fiction gets a bad rep among some groups, often times it is simply because the vast majority of fiction is bad. But there are also those who believe that fiction is a waste of time, anti-educational, and nurtures the cult of entertainment that Americans are so prone to being absorbed into. In my experience I have seen the latter trend popular among fundamentalist protestants such as Independant Fundamental Baptists, as well as reformed Christians who tend towards puritanism. It also seems to be the universally accepted norm that once children reach a certain age fiction is replaced by nonfiction books as the primary means of education. Whether the nonfiction books are random textbooks, history, or autobiographies; educators seem to believe that non-fiction works educate students better than fiction does. The result of removing fiction from its role of consciously educating by example has been that fiction is now primarily concerned with entertainment, and it has largely become slop. But even though the fiction has become slop, the unconscious effect it has of educating by example cannot be removed, and the effect is that our men who absorb it become slop as well.