Women's Magazines?

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SeekerJen:
Apparently these “girl power” mags are intent on turning today’s girls into nothing more than nutrition- and sex-starved celebrity-obsessed airheads. Depressing. :mad:
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This is the culmination of the woman’s liberation movement. That and a host of other sick side effects. I hope that women can take back their dignity.
 
These magazines have always been a problem for me. Back around 1960 even mags like Ladies’ Home Journal were constantly harping on the good-sex thing. You will never be happy unless you’re good in bed! Or, you will never be happy if your husband isn’t good in bed! It’s gotten only worse. I read that stuff when I was 12-14 and it made me very anxious about how I was going to rate.

Even when I was older, I’d buy those things for the self-help articles, fashions, horoscopes, advice columns etc but their attitudes about bodies and looks and clothes tended to sicken me. How do I rate?? Oh if only I had better hair…slimmer thighs…different bone structure…can I afford plastic surgery? Pretty much the same values and obsessions you encounter if you’ve ever hung out in Hollywood–everyone as potential star material, frantically assessing their own (and everyone else’s) physical flaws.

Their focus is disordered and hasn’t changed.
 
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Timidity:
Porn by any other name is still porn. Just because it’s in prose rather than images doesn’t change the nature of what it really is.

hehehe. Just like all those guys who buy Playboy just to read the articles! :rotfl:
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Hey, my thread came back! 🙂

And Timidity…I really didn’t read those articles. I still don’t. That wasn’t very nice. 😦

I stopped buying Cosmo, Marie Claire, and Glamour shortly after starting this thread. I still read Allure and Self and Fitness. And to Locket, I read Vogue and Elle on a semi-regular basis too. 🙂 I’m a magazine nut.
 
Dj Roy Albert:
most women do not look like the models or movie stars in these magazines

You’re right. I look better! I love it when the tabloids do a story on celebrities without make-up. I’ll intentionally find a long check-out line so I can stand there and look at the pics. Perks me right up, and proves what I have always believed: I, too, can look drop dead gorgeous if I have thousands to spend on clothes, a personal trainer, a chef and a stylist. Some of those women look downright scary without make-up.
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Celia:
And Timidity…I really didn’t read those articles. I still don’t. That wasn’t very nice. 😦 I never doubted you for a minute–I was commenting on the cliche. Sorry of you took offense, but you have to admit that it’s the same cliche …
 
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Timidity:
I never doubted you for a minute–I was commenting on the cliche. Sorry of you took offense, but you have to admit that it’s the same cliche …
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Well, whatever. shrug
 
Most of these magazines stink. I mean, they really stink! All those perfume samples. I just can’t handle it. It smothers out the good horse smells around our home. 😉
 
I gave up the Cosmo & Glamour many, many years ago. Don’t care for Oprah so I don’t buy her magazine. Don’t like anything with a liberal slant at all. I like Southern Living, Country Living , La Cucina Italiana.
 
I don’t bother with the traditional Women’s Magazines because I also think they are mostly trashy, & filled with annorexic models or ridiculously priced clothing not to mention - THEY STINK - all those smelly perfumes - but I love love love Runner’s World, Taste of Home, and as a guilty pleasure - People Magazine.

I also subscribe to This Rock - which is wonderful & helps strengthen my Catholic Faith. (Karl, shouldn’t I get a free year for that plug? 😉 )
 
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