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As has been said several times on this thread, the people who are turned off by Cosmo peruse it and then ignore it - perhaps for the rest of their lives. I have been to the supermarket or Target or wherever many times, and not once have I seen a 6 year old girl looking at Cosmo. The only women I know who read it regularly are the same vacuous ones the magazine targets with their ridiculous, unreal photos and articles. Just like the guys who read GQ or Details.
Magazines and tabloids freely visible and available in Europe have women with bare torsos on their covers and articles more graphic than Cosmo's inside. And shockingly, European girls grow up normal and well-adjusted. Periodicals reflect the society that publishes them and in a democracy you are free to peruse, purchase, or ignore them.
Personally, I'd love to start a magazine called "Normal People" that has photos and articles of and about normal people doing normal things and wearing normal clothes you buy at the mall for normal prices, instead of plasticine fake people buying ridiculously priced clothes on 5th Avenue. But nobody would buy it. Since the big fashion houses pay for the ads in the magazines that do exist, you get to look at what they want to sell. And the magazine publishes articles and photos to make you buy the magazine, so they can make money. Ah, capitalism.
Dolfette is right. Mercury Girl is right. You're all right. People's opinions differ.
Buy Cosmo, don't buy Cosmo. Stop attacking each other and move on.
Magazines and tabloids freely visible and available in Europe have women with bare torsos on their covers and articles more graphic than Cosmo's inside. And shockingly, European girls grow up normal and well-adjusted. Periodicals reflect the society that publishes them and in a democracy you are free to peruse, purchase, or ignore them.
Personally, I'd love to start a magazine called "Normal People" that has photos and articles of and about normal people doing normal things and wearing normal clothes you buy at the mall for normal prices, instead of plasticine fake people buying ridiculously priced clothes on 5th Avenue. But nobody would buy it. Since the big fashion houses pay for the ads in the magazines that do exist, you get to look at what they want to sell. And the magazine publishes articles and photos to make you buy the magazine, so they can make money. Ah, capitalism.
Dolfette is right. Mercury Girl is right. You're all right. People's opinions differ.
Buy Cosmo, don't buy Cosmo. Stop attacking each other and move on.
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