/lit/ - Literature

>when and why did men give up literature
Well that’s a complicated question bucko. To start, most men were never into reading. Especially in the Victorian era, Middle Ages, and early-modern era. Most men either didn’t have the time to read or saw it as a girly/nerdy activity, so they didn’t do it. As for intellectuals, they still read as much as they used to and haven’t stopped. It’s just a romanticized version of the past where men read that you’re imagining

This thread was bound to be shit anyway