Women's mags: proof misery sells

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

[prisoner6]

Great find! THanks for posting CW. Noting for laters when I have more time.

prisoner6

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[David Isaac]

It should not be surprising that women's magazines are the way they are. They are but a small part of an overall effort by change-agents to install in postions of power (specifically in those areas where there is control of information), those who have leftist views and in many cases, radical left views.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's not surprising to us, but it's refreshing to read it in print.

[David Isaac]

There have been small signs that the Left is losing their near monopoly on all of the major information outlets. It will never be soon enough.

[JoeSixPack1]

A socially well rounded, level headed woman of at least medium intelligence does not usually waste money on the so called "nag rags".

So if those rags want to sell to their audience they have to be as many clicks to the left as possible. Myrna Blyth probably just got fed up with the extremism.

[LizardQueen]

A socially well rounded, level headed woman of at least medium intelligence does not usually waste money on the so called "nag rags".

Exactly. I've flipped through them while on line at the checkout in the grocery store and am astounded by how stupid they are, all of them. It's either sex, me, sex, me or "lose pounds/make desserts, lose pounds/make desserts". There's no actual substance in any of them.

Daytime TV is the same. On the miserable days when I'm home sick, there's nothing on network TV worth watching (we don't have cable, live in the boonies). Its all soap operas - more sex/me/sex/me/bitchy women/prettyboy men. Thank god that I have a stash of videos that I can pop in if I'm laid up, and that at least Canadian TV has some half-decent shows on a few times during the day.

Do the media companies really think we're that stupid?

LQ

[goldstategop]

Well as a woman, you're a brainless bimbo concerned only with makeup and getting laid. Just so you know, its not my view of women but sure enough it seems to be theirs and the thing is women aren't revolting against this grotesque misogynism in our TV and women's magazines that reduces women to the status of well dressed sluts.

[JoeSixPack1]

Do the media companies really think we're that stupid?

Wow, there's a loaded question! It probably has more to do with loneliness & ignorance than stupidity, but the bottom line is sales revenue, and so far they're all making money.

Except Rosie's rag. She couldn't even appeal to the lezbos.

[Mamzelle]

re: Ellen Levine, editor at Good Housekeeping, calls Blyth's condition "serious Ann Coulter envy." )))

Hey, what's so bad about that? I have a little AC envy myself--what fun to be dashing off columns that fry the liberals and crush the effete pretentions of the girly-boy neo-cons...

Wouldn't like her life, though, seems a bit lonely...

This observation of "sob sisters" is right on the money. But the other observation is that many of these magazines are unrelentingly sexist, and that's why I stopped buying them.

Glamour, Vogue, Elle--all are "How to be a Happy Hooker" magazines. All about be sexually available and pleasing and utterly promiscuous.

There is some fun escapism--"Lucky" magazine is pure fashion and escapism, although issue after issue never seems to show clothes that could actually be worn by a grown-up, still fun to look at.

[sauropod]

To be expected. Look at how they drive.

... ducking...

[martin_fierro]

Upcoming Lifetime Channel movies involving "victims" (all the way through April!).

[Lil'freeper]

To be expected. Look at how they drive.

Hah! What worries me is that they (sic) vote.

[sauropod]

Yep. It'll be a win-win for JEffingK if he can land either Clinton in the Veep spot. They'll go for it every time.

[hellinahandcart]

Oh, go wash some dishes.

[NYC GOP Chick]

To be expected. Look at how they drive.

You like to live dangerously, doncha, 'pod? ;D

[sauropod]

My powers of observation are infallible ;-).

[NYC GOP Chick]

My powers of observation are infallible ;-).

Until someone reads your posts this morning... ;D

[hellinahandcart]

Oh yeah? Go observe the dust on your furniture.

Then do something about it...

[sauropod]

Hi mizz kettle. I'm mr. pot. You're black.

take a look at your computer monitor...