There's a new parody Tumblr, Cosmarxpolitian. Headlines include: "Is constant unceasing class warfare ruining your skin?", "304 ways to subvert the bourgeoisie (and feel sexy!)", and "'Oh, god!' Sex tips so divine, he'll call you the opiate of his masses."
In Ladymag Land, the biggest issues of the year are the September issues. And this year, Vogue, Queen of the Ladymags, had its biggest issue ever. Nine hundred sixteen pages: Absolutely GIGANTIC. But all of the Ladymags celebrated the fall season in a huge way, and we could not let this momentous occasion pass without…
Kate-Book, which bills itself as a website "For Kates, By Kates, and about Kates," interviewed Kate White — the woman formerly known as editor of Cosmopolitan until yesterday — about (as you may have guessed) being a Kate, as well as some other things.
Joanna Coles, the current editor of Marie Claire (and regular "Project Runway All Stars" judge), will replace Kate White as the editor of Cosmopolitan, America's most popular women's magazine and bible for fun fearless women who aren't afraid of psychotic sex tips.
The late Helen Gurley Brown lived like Peggy, but she plotted like Joan. When she wrote Sex and the Single Girl, she was in her forties, and had been married for years. But that didn't stop her from crafting a book that helped rewrite the Old-Maid-at-Twenty-Three world of being a single lady in the 1960s. The book's…
Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan who retired in 1997 but remained "Editor in Chief for Cosmopolitan International" and came into her pink corner office almost every day, passed away today at age 90.
Most women we know can only stomach Cosmpolitan Magazine if they read it ironically and pretend it's The Onion for ladies. (How are tips like "Draw an attention-grabbing circle around your nipples using rhinestones and body glue for a special night in" not genius parody? Ugh.) But to say the maniacally sex-obsessed…
The Observer's Kat Stoeffel got some fantastic quotes from Victoria Hearst, daughter of former Hearst Corp. chairman Randolph A. Hearst and younger sister of Patty and Anne. Victoria is sponsoring a new online petition asking Hearst Magazines to, as Victoria tartly puts it, "have a moral compass and put [Cosmopolitan…
Serenader of skyscrapers and former star of Sonny with a Chance Demi Lovato graces the cover of this month's Cosmopolitan and — what do you know — it looks as though a photoshop shark has taken a big ol' chomp out of her side (fitting as her dress does resemble a sexy '90s wet suit). Of course, Cosmo is no stranger to…
It's well-known that sex-tips serializer, boinking bible, periodical of promiscuity, Cosmopolitan magazine sends out one, very toned-down, cover to advertisers, while another, significantly racier, cover goes to the newsstand — but playing spot-the-difference with 17-year-old Dakota Fanning's new cover is still fun.…
A totally lame group of fun-hating parents demanding their children's minds be shielded from hypersexual content have banded together to petition that Cosmopolitan, the best magazine to read if you'd like to be sexually judged in airports, be concealed in the checkout area of their local supermarkets. Where's a girl…
We've all watched Dakota Fanning grow up, and though she won't be 18 until next month the folks at Cosmo simply couldn't wait to put her on the cover of the magazine with the line, "His Best Sex Ever" near her head. Fanning's appearance on the cover isn't really all that scandalous. She's a freshman at NYU, and Miley…
Yesterday, a tipster pointed out that her local Wegmans in Rochester, NY appeared to have covered up Adele's cleavage on the cover of December's Cosmo. Now Wegmans has gotten back to us with the reason: they cover all Cosmos.
A reader tipped us off to a strange display choice at her local Wegmans grocery store: apparently the store chose to cover up all copies of Cosmopolitan featuring Adele.
Urban Outfitters may have changed the names of their non-Navajo-made "Navajo" products, but in the October issues, Navajo is still super cool.
In the October issue of , a caption reads, "Pixelated and magnified, a Najavo print becomes infinitely more modern." Infinitely! There is literally no limit to how modern…
We've discovered "what your va-jay-jay is dying to tell you": Don't pose for the cover of Cosmo unless you want to have your arms lopped off and reattached at an awkward angle. The mag did thoughtfully draw Dianna Agron a new, curvier silhouette — even though there's nothing wrong with her actual torso.
As we now know, Cosmopolitan just launched an iPad-only magazine called Cosmo For Guys. It's like Cosmo, but … uh, for guys. As card-carrying guys ourselves, we took a look and learned a few things.
This will shock you: The women portrayed in ladymags don't reflect their readership. In this case, when it comes to age.
I haven't read Cosmopolitan magazine since I was 16.
