Check out the stats for OkCupid users (http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/)
Specifically, see what happens when you press the female icon for Caucasians. That’s right. Watch and shudder. The second most frequently found word in white women’s profile essays is Jodi fucking Picoult! Followed closely by Nicolas Sparks.
I’m so ashamed to be white right now.
What GIVES? According to the statistics, white women apparently love Sparks and Picoult more than “[their girlfriends]“, motherhood and “[being blonde"]. Toughies to beat.
Latinas and black women have astronomically better reading tastes, mentioning authors and books such as “Isabel Allende”, “The Bluest Eye” and “The Color Purple”. But then again – these books and authors are inextricably tied to the ethnicity and literary history of these two groups. Which leaves me with a horrible conclusion. Toni Morrison and Alice Walker are to modern black women what Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks are to modern white women. A commenter recently suggested I should move to a deserted island. I’m strongly considering it at the moment.
In conclusion: stay away from white women on OkCupid! Actually, I’m not so sure I’d go on that site to begin with.
I’m a half-Caucasian female and I scored an ER doctor and then an Immigration attorney on OkCupid. I put neither Picoult, Sparks, nor Stephanie Meyer on my booklist. Or maybe it was just the asian genes.
That did make me wince, but I’m still glad you posted the link– it was an interesting article.
trying to follow you on twitter but cant find your name
“Toni Morrison and Alice Walker are to modern black women what Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks are to modern white women.”
Perhaps the most distressingly true statement I have heard in years. The desire to pursue a Sparks-novel life will doom my generation.
@daniel I rather persue a Gaiman-novel life.
I’d like to clarify those statistics. It only affects the people of that site, right? Maybe they should start to consider that maybe their reading tastes are making available guys run for the hills.