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You've got me there, and that is certainly true. What I meant by "places" though was more like Latvia, or Uruguay or something.
I think what I'm really wondering about, is whether the extreme feminization of fiction and fiction publishing is a uniquely Anglospheric phenomenon, or a Western one, or a necessary consequence of the leftward shift of Western culture in general, or something else; and whether there are any holdouts anywhere.
Women are more narrative/relationship/character oriented, so fiction is going to militate towards female overrepresentation in a way media in general may not regardless of local attitudes. So like, Afghanistan as in actually Afghanistan might be your best bet.
And Uruguay speaks rioplatonese Spanish, which is not what I would associate with ‘less feminism’ anyways.
Female overrepresentation in fiction is a recent development, though. Look, for example, at the list of bestselling novels in the U.S. in the 1970s. There are several years in which all of the top 10 were men. If this state of affairs could hold at one time, I would expect that at least 50/50 parity is possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_bestselling_novels_in_the_United_States_in_the_1970s
Uruguay was just an example of a physical place. I'm not explicitly interested in Uruguay.
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