Women's mags: proof misery sells

christian Science Monitor ^ | March 10, 2004 | Rondi Adamson

[goldstategop]

Liberals sell gloom and doom. Its a wonder they're in business at all given the fact all they seem to sell these days is fear.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

She sure has their number.

The twisted anti-family, anti-male, anti-Americanview is prevalent in virtually all publishing houses.

[CDHart]

Very interesting article -- thanks!

Carolyn

[The Energizer]

The Lifetime Channel makes a career out of this as well.

[backhoe]

Cincy, during my wife's recent near-death experience, I had to drive her everywhere, including the hairdressers, so I got to read a whole pile of Wymmin's Magazines... and I was appalled at what I saw.

I've read comic books that had more coherent story lines. It's all sex, sex, sex, and Me! Me! Me!

For the most part, they are written at sixth-grade level, at best... frankly, the "teen" mags are less offensive, since you understand they are written for youngsters and don't expect them to be sophisticated.

[goldstategop]

One gets the impression women live to doll themselves up and to please men. What happened to feminism?? ;-)

[ElizabethP]

I can't imagine anyone with an intelligence quotient that exceeds that of an armadillo would be able to bear five minutes of any show that comes on Lifetime.

[Proud_texan]

I've surfed that channel and the other "chick channels" (my wifes term) a couple of times and it's weird, like watching a car wreck...most of the guys are Charlie Manson and the few "good" ones are Alan Alda types. Very weird.

[goldstategop]

I bet intelligent women prefer to watch Spike to Lifetime or Oxygen. The notion women's interests should be reduced to what between their legs is as stupid and silly as the notion men should think only about what's between the covers of Playboy. Its not too much to ask the women of America to grow up.

[Agnes Heep]

To ready any woman's magazine nowadays is to come away with the impression that women can't wipe their butts without some kind of specific set of instructions for doing it--preferably written from a leftist, PC slant.

[goldstategop]

Its a wonder women could reproduce at all without the helpful guidance of women's mags!

[backhoe]

What happened to feminism?

Well, that's a darn good question... I've always considered myself a feminist in the older and wider sense of the word-- I like women, and I think they ought to be treated equally.

The modern feminist movement, IMO, got co-opted by a pile of man-hating, marriage-hating, baby-hating harpies, and is a bad parody of its former self.

As far as the mags go, they exist to sell advertising, and most of what the ads peddle is fear and insecurity.

[goldstategop]

Sounds like its made for Kerry.

[Agnes Heep]

Its a wonder women could reproduce at all without the helpful guidance of women's mags!

First they'd have to find a man!

[NewRomeTacitus]

In John Carpenter's movie "They Live", the lead character finds a pair of sunglasses that expose subliminal sub-texts on billboards, signs, newspapers and magazines saying things like "COMPLY" and "OBEY".
Just scanning the covers of womens magazines in the checkout line shows that Carpenter was pretty close to the mark.

[goldstategop]

Reminds me... Rosie and her new wife can go to a sperm bank. Hmmm... who's bearing the child this time? Must be Rosie's wife!

[goldstategop]

Nah. I think you have "The Stepford Wives" in mind.

[independentmind]

How does one compare Cosmopolitan to Good Housekeeping? Perhaps the writer should delve into those nuances more.

[Agnes Heep]

First Dyke: Let me be frank ....

Second Dyke: No, let me be Frank!