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Oh, sweet baby cheeses. At the risk of dragging this topic back on track...

What I particularly dislike about these magazines is the passive approach they take to women's sexuality.

They always say: "Want your man to visit your lady garden more often? Encourage him to kiss your breasts, and then wriggle up the bed higher so your cooch is nearer to his mouth."

They never say: "Want your man to give you more oral sex? Just fucking ask him."

Despite the fact that their audience is (ostensibly) grown damn women, they keep pushing this "show, don't tell" approach. Use your words! And don't do pretty much any of the horrific sex tips included in these magazines. My favourite (ie, burned into my fucking memory forever) involved wrapping a shoelace once around your man's knob and pulling the ends back and forth. The way they made fire back in the Stone Age.

Holly from the Pervocracy does a great snark of every month's edition, Part 1 and Part 2.
 

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I was so disgusted by the thinly veiled pornography in a magazine geared towards young women and god knows who else that just happens to pick it up.

Well, I didn't read Cosmo often but I did look to women's magazines when I hit puberty, trying to find my identity as a woman. I don't think that was good.

Thankfully I had magazines like Sassy* to pull me back to earth that introduced me to more age appropriate fashion and ideas and taught me feminist concepts.

They always say: "Want your man to visit your lady garden more often? Encourage him to kiss your breasts, and then wriggle up the bed higher so your cooch is nearer to his mouth."

They never say: "Want your man to give you more oral sex? Just fucking ask him."

Cosmo is the worst about that, isn't it? I completely agree with you. Regarding sex, they act like women should be having it all the time, but should never actually talk about it like an adult.



* I did have a link to FuckYeahSassyMagazine Tumblr, before I realized that there are probably underage people in the photos in videos, so you'll have to find it yourself to enjoy your Sassy nostalgia.
 
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I think I quit reading Cosmo when I was 24 when I thought everybody woman was having sex but me. It was damn depressing. I glance at the cover now and laugh. It's always the same, except they change the number. It used to be 26 ways to pleasure your man, now it's like 52. I know it's rubbish. There's only one way to please your man - just touch his junk. I've learned that, and it only took me 40 years (well 26 years, actually).

I'm too busy with House Beautiful and BHG to waste my time.
 

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Lol, I love House Beautiful! 25 Beautiful Homes is my magazine crack though. *Sigh* some of the kitchens in that magazine cost more than my house...
 

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1) After a quick run through this thread, I scrolled up to the top to make sure I was really in Women's Issues and not in the Pol Forum...
2) My first introduction to Cosmo was at 27 years old--by supporting the fundraiser of a coworker's child. That's right; a middle schooler (in essence) introduced me to Cosmo. Oh, irony. After skimming through the first delivered issue, I chucked it. Not because I'm a prude, but because I found it to be drivel.
3) I'm not sure if this is a regional thing, but in my town the sides of every Cosmo (i.e., the parts that contain such gems as "How to Get Him To Last Longer!" and "Turn Him Into a Wildcat in Bed!") at the Checkout aisle are covered by a well placed piece of U-shaped plastic. Is this not prevalent now?
 

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hate, hate, hate the magazines cosmo. i consider it "really really bad porn." or, porn that was written by men to manipulate women. everything in it seems to be instructions on "how to be a stepford wife." all the articles are "are you pleasing him," "how to please him," "find his erogenous zone," etc.
 
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Once upon a time it use to be a mans jaw, physical frame. A mind that can create something from the imagination and unknown. Now, I do not think even women know what they want. Such a shame. Think a life of a Fedex guy on a desert isle is looking pretty good to me. Always has.
 
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Yet another newsflash: You're not why I choose to stay nor do you and a small group of bullies represent the MAJORITY of the members on this site. Although I know you believe you do.

My first week here I receive a couple PM's from well established members telling me to enjoy the site and to ignore a tiny community who hate on all the new people or those who disagree with them. Guess who the tiny community is? If you don't like my opinion I suggest you go find another thread because I'm not going anywhere.:tongue:

I honestly think you must be so miserable in your daily life that you sit behind a keyboard all day and pick fights with anyone and everyone you can suck in. Why on earth do you belong to this site? I'm pretty sure nobody likes you. I am not going to waste my energy arguing with you. You're dismissive of anyone who tries to reason with you by saying it's a "clique". You ignore common sense. You're not that intelligent. Go away.
 
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I honestly think you must be so miserable in your daily life that you sit behind a keyboard all day and pick fights with anyone and everyone you can suck in. Why on earth do you belong to this site? I'm pretty sure nobody likes you. I am not going to waste my energy arguing with you. You're dismissive of anyone who tries to reason with you by saying it's a "clique". You ignore common sense. You're not that intelligent. Go away.
I do love a woman with 'spunk' . Fuckin 70's word. Spunk :) :)
Means fight with a cause, for you 80's types. Meaning, not "just because". Means all in.
 
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I be happy with the rhythmic lapping of wave upon shore. Was taught by me brothers one time that on a low tide beach, when the tide be going out . One does the twist like Chubby :). In the middle of the night and you feel the pippy shells beneath the soles 0f your feet. Sometimes survival of life things are first hand.


Kinda like a bare cunt. ooops.
 

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bwahahahahahaha!

though... the joystick one kinda reminds me of the ex, when he was teaching me to drive, testing to see if i remembered how to find all the gears...naked.

I remember getting my first womans mini stuck in a rainforest. Having to place one stone after the other, under one wheel after the other down a gully, in a queensland thunderstorm, in the middle of the night. Fuck it was funny and brother was it worth it. No woman I have chatted to here would come close to the distance a 70's woman would.
 

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*reads thread*
my brain is stuck on Ms. Dolfette grocery shopping in the nude.
:redface:

the clique. i'm a member right? i practice the handshake for ages.. i really should be a member.
*behaves in a cliquish manner... shows disdain for non-clique members*


ohhh post 29 - Hitler. yeah.. thread over. someone really likes their Hitler/Nazi flounce.

My first week here I receive a couple PM's from well established members telling me to enjoy the site and to ignore a tiny community who hate on all the new people or those who disagree with them.
bonding is so cute.

question... if all these people are supporting you in PMs.. doesn't it hurt a lil bit that not one will defend you in the public forum? i mean.. seems kinda fair weather :frown:


In all honesty this thread is akin to the father who chews out and grounds his son for peeping through the girl next door's window when he himself has 100 Playboys under his bed. That's all I'm saying.
peeping through someone's window is a crime. *blink*
grown men looking at Playboy is not.
:confused:

am i missing something subtle here?

stating conflicting opinion =/= trolling
stating opinion to cause conflict = trolling


@Ms. Petite = did you know Greg Dulli, of Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers fame, had an advice column in Sassy? OMG!! :biggrin:


urm... if you shop at your local Co-Op there ain't any such magazines in the impulse buy section :smile: *totally self serving Co-Op pumping agenda*
 
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I think the message that almost all magazines are sending to their target audience is that "You are not good enough and need to do better or you will continue to be a looser!" I wish everyone understood how airbrushed and photoshopped magazine photography is.
The shelter magazines show how rich people live and what they think everyone else aspires to.
The food magazines print recipes that most people are not competent enough with their own culinary skills to actually cook.
The fashion magazines are selling clothing, furniture and cosmetics in the ads that they use in their editorial pages but none of them really have a real life point of view anymore in my opinion. The people like Diana Vreeland and Grace Mirabella who had vision in the industry don't seem to exist anymore.
The paparazzi press seem to tell their readers it's OK to act like an idiot or these people are more fucked up than you are.
The health and lifestyle magazines... blah... blah..blah (I could go on and on)

It seems like every time there is a fun magazine with a positive spin on life and living gets published it gets off to a good start and rarely lasts a year. The magazines that make you feel guilty because you should try to be something else seem to attract the advertisers hoping to sell you something you really don't need.

I used to know someone who worked at Cosmopolitan magazine and it seemed to me at the time that they had a target readership and it was younger woman newly on their own and easily manipulated. I have not looked at that magazine in years.

I subscribe to Weekly Variety, Entertainment Weekly and Vanity Fair. I used to get Gourmet because I did enjoy some of the recipes but I mostly got a kick out of looking at their editorial photos and the tables they set and then checking to see who advertised for china, crystal and table top silver etc that month.

If I'm taking a flight over four and half hours I'll load up on a variety of reading material just to see if I share a view point with anyone at Hearst or Conde Nast. (Sadly I do not) I think once you have a clear idea of who you are and what you like most magazines have very little to offer you.
 

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Great rebuttal. Stop pretending your actions on such makers absolve you of any culpability.

Damn, if I didn't know better, I'd say you have an ecrush on Dolf. Did she turn you down? :cool: Back off. Way out of line and the personal attacks are making you out to be an ass.

Magazines. I can't believe them. I worry over what kind of image this sends to young girls -- clarify the young to 6, 7, 8. They see this image of women that is either airbrushed into something unrealistic, or on the rag magazines, women who are abused, drunk, junkies or beaten - with headlines that make me shudder. Televisions is just as bad. But the magazines are out there for them to see -- television you can monitor and control. The shit they have out on display in a grocery store is embarrassing and I can only guess confusing to a child -- or worse, is seen as the ideal. Maybe this is why small girls are sneaking into the bathroom at school to put on make up, or change into hip hugger jeans, or rolling their shorts up to their crotch ...maybe it's not mom they're imitating but a magazine cover. Sad, really.

Great topic, would be better without all the stupid attacking people though. :rolleyes: But I guess that's the new 'adult' to this site.