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Women's mags: proof misery sells
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| March 10, 2004
| Rondi Adamson
Posted on 03/10/2004 2:58:41 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: NYC GOP Chick
Tattletale.
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posted on
03/10/2004 5:41:01 AM PST
by
sauropod
(I intend to have Red Kerry choke on his past.)
To: LizardQueen
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. LOL! And don't forget the perennial:
- Find the swim suit that's right for your figure! (Yes! It does exist!!)
- 10 Things you must tell your doctor!
- 10 Signs that your child might not be eating right!
- Can this marriage/family be saved? (<- a hundred varieties of this but essentially the same song-and-dance, YD.)
- She's fighting for YOU! A side of (fill in the blank) of her that you've never seen!
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posted on
03/10/2004 5:45:31 AM PST
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: hellinahandcart; sauropod
My motto is: Men -- can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em! ;)
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posted on
03/10/2004 5:46:18 AM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
("This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!")
To: sauropod
Hey! You pinged her first!
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posted on
03/10/2004 5:47:00 AM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
("This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!")
To: goldstategop
I subscribed to Cosmo while in my twenties, until I tired of reading articles about how to give a BJ and have the best orgasm....
Now they have "Cosmo Girl" for teens. I saw a copy while waiting for my daughter at the orthodontist; this particular issue contained an article about hickeys....
Most women's magazines are trashy, IMO.
To: NYC GOP Chick
I'm a man....
But I can change...
If I have to...
I guess.
46
posted on
03/10/2004 5:47:11 AM PST
by
sauropod
(I intend to have Red Kerry choke on his past.)
To: sauropod
Can we clone you? Please???
47
posted on
03/10/2004 5:47:59 AM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
("This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!")
To: NYC GOP Chick; sauropod
Can we clone you? Please??? Eeeek!
48
posted on
03/10/2004 5:53:36 AM PST
by
Lil'freeper
(By all that we hold dear on this good Earth I bid you stand, men of the West!)
To: LizardQueen
Do the media companies really think we're that stupid?Well, er,-yes, they do.
Warren Farrell's book Why Men Are the Way They Are has, in the introduction to Part 2, the best analysis of women's magazines (Lifetime TV did not exist in 1990) that has ever been done.
Borrow a copy and read it, you'll like it.
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posted on
03/10/2004 5:54:25 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
To: martin_fierro
Thanks for the LINK.
~gloom, despair and agony for me...~
To: independentmind
How does one compare Cosmopolitan to Good Housekeeping?Get this book, and read "Introduction to Part 2" for the answer.
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posted on
03/10/2004 5:57:49 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
To: sauropod
take a look at your computer monitor...take a look at your fancy big-screen TV. It had a nice BLANKET to keep it warm this winter...
To: LizardQueen
Do the media companies really think we're that stupid? Ha! It's not just the media companies. Try the rag trade.
- Generally speaking those industry pays more to those who sew men's clothes then those who sew women's clothes.
-Outside of such things as blue jeans, raincoats, etc. women's clothes fall apart faster, are more poorly constructed,requires more mending, and are far more likely to be "dry clean only" than men's clothes.
99% of women's clothes have built in obsolescence: styles that we would die-for today, we wouldn't be caught dead in to tomorrow-- or so the fashion mavens assure us.
-The rag trade doesn't seem to have a clue as to how 96% of American women live and want, i.e. try to find a shoe with arch-support that doesn't look like something worn by Ma Kettle.
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:03:57 AM PST
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: sauropod
To be expected. Look at how they drive. Look, buddy, if you don't like the way I drive stay off the sidewalk.
;)
LQ
To: backhoe
PC is not just in women's magazines. I've gotten to the point that I by-pass library books/novels authored by women!
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:06:17 AM PST
by
Carolinamom
(Currently re-programming my thinking to positive mode.)
To: sauropod
"Bow your heads for the man's prayer!" :lol:
I love Red Green - that's one of the shows that's on Canadian daytime TV that I like. Sure better than the stupid soaps on US channels.
LQ
To: sauropod; hellinahandcart
To be expected. Look at how they drive. Using my advanced Snappy Remark Penalty Calculator, I can see that this is going to cost you, so next time you really ought to go ahead and include the address for donations to the "Help 'Pod Get Out of the Doghouse" fund. ;)
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:11:11 AM PST
by
general_re
(The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
To: general_re; sauropod; NYC GOP Chick; Lil'freeper
He knows how to get out of the doghouse.
He only has to sit up, beg, roll over, and give paw.
To: The Energizer
The Life-Time Network (gag) runs from pure sappiness to the vicious, leftists "victimized by bad men" mentality to tragety-mongering. I haven't bought a womans magazine in over 25 years, and still can't figure out the psychological presumtion that housewives want to flip through a magazine of partial female nudity and exceptionally gorgeous models (are housewives/working women attracted to women? No, not in general--so what-th?) and then coincedently, full page anti-depressent advertisements. The mags invented and promoted the "super-soccer-mom" (ie: "you can do it all") movement and then made a fortune selling "Reducing Stress" articles. The mags are a roller coaster of emotional/psychological manipulation and one of my longest standing pet-peeves of all time.
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:16:32 AM PST
by
two23
To: LizardQueen
On Saturday nites here 11:30 pm in the People's Republic of Maryland.
Red Green is my role model ;-)
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:38:02 AM PST
by
sauropod
(I intend to have Red Kerry choke on his past.)
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