Monday, October 09, 2006

Women magazines: for women AND men???

I never, ever, EVER buy women's magazines (unless they're ones on celebrity gossip). Why? Because they are useless. They provide bad examples for girls AND women and you can only learn so much about sex. And I will assume that most young girls will not buy magazines such as Cosmopolitan, but they are in the stands right by check out lines at grocery stores. What is the primary text on the covers? SEX. Anyhow, that was not the point of this blog. I bought "Allure," which is a beauty magazine. No articles about sex or trying to "please your man." I brought it over to a friend's house to flip through while hanging out. He flips to a Victoria's Secret Ad and tells me that he used to take them from his sister or mom (or buy them if there were none around) to "look" at them. I'm sure you know what I mean by that. That made me ask myself how many male "readers" there are looking at these magazines? And then I laughed to myself, maybe some men actually do buy Cosmo or such women's magazines because they are not as "taboo" as actual pornography.

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