Blog/News: Why Does the Young Adult Section Suck Nowadays.

A week or two ago, I wrote an article about what I found in Barnes & Noble’s young adult section. In that article, I posted the pictures I took of the books and among them were such titles such as Queer Ducks, The Black Friend: How to be a Better White Person, White Fragility, Afterlove, etc. I promised to write a follow up post about why these books are on the shelves of the young adult section of Barnes & Noble, so here it is. Here’s my answer to why those types of books are being sold as “Young Adult” in not only Barnes & Noble, but also in libraries across the country.

To find the main reason for this, you have no further to look than the Teachers’ and Librarians’ Unions. Contrary to popular belief, most books are not bought by your average Joe on the street. According to Pew Research Center, the average American only reads 12 books a year, and that’s not including audiobooks or e-readers (which are sometimes cheaper than the actual book itself). This means that in order to stay afloat, authors and publishing companies would need someone with a lot of money to buy a bunch of their books, and who better to do that than public libraries and schools, which circulate 1,947,600,000 items every year? That certainly seems like it would bring in a lot of money and it does.

However, though it brings in a lot of money, there’s a catch. The Teachers’ and Librarians’ Unions are one of the largest supporters of the Democrat party and vice versa. This “I scratch your back, you scratch mine,” type of relationship means that there’s a financial incentive for libraries to be picky over what books they choose to put on their shelves and give a chance of being noticed and which ones they don’t and because they’re the publishing companies’ main consumers, that means that the publishing companies have to be pickier about what they allow to be published. In fact, some publishers like Scholastic have ended their policy on allowing schools to opt out of having to buy their LGBTQ+/BIPOC books, calling it “elective segregation” in an attempt to please their Left-wing overlords.

This of course, has led to a shift away from quality stories that reflect good morality to stories that are often discussions about sexuality, race, and the other tenants of the Leftist religion. That means that since more vapid, crappy books are being written and promoted as “Young Adult”, bookstores such as Barnes & Noble are kind of forced to put them on the selves, especially since they’re a Fortune 500 company (that means that the more Left-wing they lean, the more they’ll be promoted).

Another thing to consider about the effects that this has on society is the fact that this mainly focuses on tween/teen girls who are hitting puberty and are most likely really weirded out by it and feel uncomfortable in their bodies. The Left knows that the sooner these girls can be tricked into thinking that they’re trans or non-binary or some other part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, the easier they can get voters out of them. It’s been shown time and time again that one of the primary voter bases for the Democrat party is single women. The longer they can keep women believing that they’re oppressed in some way, the more voters they get. And that’s why the YA section sucks nowadays.

Until next time,

M.J.