[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[independentmind]

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

[prisoner6]

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

prisoner6

[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.

[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!).

[3catsanadog]

I quit buying women's magazines in my late 30's. It was about that time that I started admitting to myself that the women's movement had sold me a bill of goods. I'm 53 now.

[NewRomeTacitus]

I checked the net for Warren Farrell quotes on the subject (and found that the guy was also one of the 133 candidates who ran against Schwarzenegger):

“So why are women so angry? Many women are socialized to expect a prince. When men turn out not to be princes but rather flawed human beings, the women feel betrayed. In another felicitous phrase, "women's dream of being swept away is swept away." Today we have created a sexual double standard which is much more lenient toward women's affairs then men's, even where the affair puts children at risk and betrays a loving father. Thus men's problems ruin them, and men are also held responsible for women's problems. Women's magazines teach women to seduce their boss, then sue for harassment.”

“Go to any news stand any month. The titles of the articles in women’s and men’s magazines are basically the same as they were when I reported my first analysis (1986) of women’s and men’s magazines in Why Men Are The Way They Are. In fact, Cosmopolitan has a book filled with titles and how long it should be before they are recycled.
Women’s magazines promise the world and deliver male dependency; men’s magazines promise little and deliver female avoidance. Men’s and women’s magazines work together: His keeps the man “out to lunch” which keeps the woman wanting him to buy lunch; hers keeps the woman complaining and misunderstanding, which keeps the man searching for a woman who isn’t just faking understanding.”