It turns out that drag queen story hour doesn't teach young boys tolerance, it just traumatizes them and makes them associate literature with the queasy sensation of being ogled by a cross-dressing pedophile. Result: "boys don't read".

More seriously - though I'm only half joking - there is a close connection between the untruths that "men don't read" and that "the right can't create". The left does not have some lock on literary creativity - HP Lovecraft, Robert E Howard, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Robert A Heinlein, Gene Wolfe, Larry Niven, and numerous other genre-defining titans would have been very amused to hear that "the right can't create".

What actually happens is that the left takes over production, distribution, and promotion channels, and then ensures that only their books are published, stocked, marketed, and given awards. There is no creativity whatsoever involved in this strategy. It is simply low animal cunning and venal social power games.

As with every other instance of the left murdering an institution and wearing it as a skinsuit, the result is the precipitous collapse of the ability of that institution to fulfill its social function, followed in short order by the collapse of its prestige as the general public starts tuning the corrupted institution out.

"Men don't read" the insipid sermons the big publishers are selling, and "the right doesn't create" anything the left will consider publishing. Meanwhile there is a quiet literary Renaissance happening in independent publishing, and men are reading it in droves.