[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.

[yankeedame]

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!

[Jim Noble]

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.

[yankeedame]

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.