Jezebel

Um, are they going to endorse anyone or are they just spurning Clinton?

Dude, I am so tired of this whole Hillary-is-a-woman-so-all-women-should-consider-voting-for-her crap.

Duh.

@Pinkosaurus:
I think there is some major spurning going on there. Sure they talk about helping women and promoting leadership but November is the Thanksgiving issue and they'll be damned if an informed article about candidate's position on issues important to women get in the way of the 5 tasty low-fat pumpkin pie recipes!!

Good. Nobody needs endorsement advice from magazines that consistently tell women how they could better their lives from dieting and buying useless shit.

so are they republican? or did they endorse obama? this means nothing to me.

There's not monolithic support for her; and why should there be? I take it as a sign of progress that people are carefully weighing the relative merits of either Obama or Clinton and deciding accordingly. What bugs the fuck out of me, though, is this persistent suspicion that a not-insignificant part of that non-support is driven by entirely apolitical motivations. Just as it's chic to support Barack, it's trendy to hate on Hillary.

@hortense: I've always wondered who subscribes to this shit, apart from my dentist.

So they wont endorse anyone because they're not sure if he/she will win?

@hortense: Oh wait, that's why.

Here's a quote from the article:

"Why are you asking only the women's magazine editors if they are endorsing Senator Clinton because she's a woman?" wrote LHJ's edtior, Diane Salvatore, in an e-mail. "Are you asking the men's magazines the same question? Or are you asking the men's magazine editors if they are endorsing Senator Obama or Senator McCain (because they're not women)?"

Exactly.

Well. NYTimes gave her their endorsement, so I guess I don't really care so much about Redbook's.

@Pinkosaurus: at least Ladies Home Journal editor is smart!

@hortense: Preach. I can't stand magazines for women that are just diet advice, recipes, homespun articles about women apparently who still live in the 1950s.
And Jane Chestnutt's nugget of wisdon: "I have to say that I don't sense this monolithic support for her among women." What? I want to see her sources.

As a seven sisters grad (and the daughter of a seven sisters grad), I would just like to say that I EMPHATICALLY resent that title being associated in any way with "Ladies Home Journal" or "Good Housekeeping." Barf on them.

@Pinkosaurus: Word.

Of course, the real issue is which vacuum cleaner is top-rated.

@bigleggedwoman: Dyson of course.

Those magazines are pretty conservative (I know, I have a MA in Obvious). I got a subscription free once, and was always disturbed by the Christian undertones.

I would never vote for someone just because Good Housekeeping told me to. Readers Digest, though...

Chesnutt then added, "I have to say that I don't sense this monolithic support for her among women."

This is taken straight from the George W. Bush "You're Either With Us, Or Against Us" book on politics.

I would be DISAPPOINTED if all women were choosing to stand in solidarity as women in support of Hillary. It would reflect bandwagon mentality and a desperation to "belong." Not. Smart. Politics.

But what does Sandra Lee think? She's always on the cover of all of them, I thought she was co-owner or something.
I bet she would make a nice Inauguration Cocktail.

Who reads this shit anymore? Even my mother-in-law has moved on to the Oprah magazine.

well, i guess this defies moe's theory about all white women running to vote hill into office...On a side note, who the fuck reads those mags? Good Housekeeping. Yawn.

I'm waiting to make my decision until Kim France tells me who to vote for.

@MsDirector: I'm with you. Seven Sisters is a totally inappropriate term for these magazines.

@incurable paranoiac: I only listen to the enorsements from Consumer Reports. They test before deciding!

@PaisleyPajamas: Yeah. The bandwagon is all Obama's at this point. Everyone's trying to belong in the cool Obama club. Everyone is jumping on. My head hurts. And it might explode before Tuesday. Hopefully my vagina will show me the way. LOL.

@ineffable.me: They all say they don't endorse candidates. I never thought I'd say this, but more people should think of following Ladies' Home Journal's lead.

:::yawns, scratches butt:::

@incurable paranoiac: R.D. is far worse in my book. More insidious. And I used to read it cover to cover every month when I was in elementary school. I got my spelling tests from those pages in the 'enrichment' program. Now I read it and I can't believe the propaganda they disseminate! Well, HELL -- at least I can spell 'insidious' now.

@SinisterRouge: My tits asked me to listen to their input but I'm a vagina voter all the way.

@SinisterRouge: I don't trust these kinds of decisions to my vadge.

@Pinkosaurus: Good on you, lady I've never heard of before!

@rocknrollunicorn: Well, my gigantic ass usually decides anything major like Presidential elections. But my vagina does all the primary work.

@rocknrollunicorn: Yeah, but they both talk at once, who can make any sense of it?

@bigleggedwoman: who better to trust? :)

@Pinkosaurus: Yes, but these are women's magazines. Hillary is a woman. It's really not that outrageous to suggest they take some special interest in her candidacy.

Besides, if she were a Republican, they'd be all over her.

@vanishingirl: Wait a MINUTE, you're right.

@FrankieButtons: File under Purely hypothetical: "Female Republican Presidential Candidate".

@bigleggedwoman: right? I'm pretty convinced we could take our guidance from much less worthy sources.

@bigleggedwoman: Vadges do give great advice on crosswords though and the odd sudoku.

All of those women's magazines seem so outdated and old-fashioned. I imagine the mags will tell their readers to vote the way their husbands tell them to.

@bigleggedwoman: Precisely why I ignore their jibber jabber and leave it up to Miss Kitty (yes I stole that particular nickname from Girlfriends)

@bigleggedwoman: Condi 2012!

My point, I guess, is that these magazines are entirely devoted to cooking, clothes, and child-rearing. Yet it's offensive to suggest they concern themselves with a female presidential candidate?

@FrankieButtons: I really hope that after she breaks free from this administration, Condi writes a scathing tell all.

@FrankieButtons: Totally is.
Same way it's cool to vote for Obama if you're a minority since we've been under-represented forever and ever. But voting for a woman based solely on advancing the cause of women...that's downright blasphemous.

@mepo: How about a specialized Scrabble game? Or Trivial Pursuit, Vadge Edition?

@FrankieButtons: Condi is being groomed for the Oval Office? Ew, that sounded rather National Geographic in my mind.

@bigleggedwoman: OMG

@FrankieButtons: ew condi for president are you kidding me?

@bigleggedwoman: It made me briefly consider what type of wax job is most appropriate for the commander in chief. Brazilian just doesn't sound patriotic.

@mepo: Wait, my vagina is the reason I'm not good at crosswords? Hm...and this whole time I was blaming Tom Cruise.

@rocknrollunicorn: How 'bout one-a them little 'Hitler' staches down there? Symbolic.

@bigleggedwoman: Heh. Nah, I was joking about Condi. She's just the first Republican woman that came to mind. (What did happen to all the female Republican politicians? Am I imagining an article about the GOP purposefully keeping women out of the spotlight?)

@notaclevername: I'm sure he has something to do with it!

@FrankieButtons: i got really fuckin scared for a sec

@SinisterRouge: Back in 2000, my BF at the time and I used to "argue" politics a lot. Essentially it was me telling him how effing silly he was to vote for the Anti-Christ (Bush). Every.Single.Time it ended with me getting him to admit that the only reason he was voting for Bush was because he was sure Bush was going to win and he didn't want to be "on the losing team."

I wish I were kidding.

@FrankieButtons: This time last year everyone in Washington was salivating over the possibility of a Condi vs. Hillary showdown. I heard Maureen Dowd speak here in Austin, and that was the hot topic at the time.

What was irritating to me was how they refer to lady candidates by their first names, whereas the boys by their surname. But, I'm picky that way.