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Ratinski
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
I write spy short stories, and once was told by someone in the industry that my fiction was perfect for the likes of Maxim and Esquire and FHM. Which, frankly, made me want to do nothing more than just stick my civil engineer/spy away in a drawer and never get anything published ever.

In short: do they want fiction? Because this sounds like a guy magazine that I wouldn't mind being published in.
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Snowbunny
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
You know who should work here? Betty Suarez.
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NefariousNewt
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
Well, seeing as how "the Jezebel Effect" is in operation, i can't reach the site. However, from what I'm reading, this is a breath of fresh air. Perchance I see a writing opportunity...
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TheFormerJuneBronson
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
I'll love to see it. I think it could be revolutionary if they can make it work, both from the editorial and the publication end of things.
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onydchic
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
I can just see all the 'real' men out there waving this off as 'gay' and 'ridiculous'. Cos you know, what's a real man mag without some female putdown?
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NefariousNewt
05/15/09

@onydchic: Some of us guys don't exactly care what 'real men' think.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/15/09

@NefariousNewt: And you are the guys we like.
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mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
But what will their centrefold contain, Kanye fish?
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kelsium
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
Are they hiring women, too? There are a ton of Jezebel commenters who should be all over that jazz!
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poires et poireaux
05/15/09

@kelsium: I'll ask them, kels. They're my brother's roommates :)
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nessalicious
05/15/09

@poires et poireaux: I would like to know too!
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
05/15/09

@nessalicious: Me three!
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kelsium
05/15/09

@poires et poireaux: Nice! I hope you will keep us updated on the goings on of this because it sounds super duper cool.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/15/09

@poires et poireaux: Me three (or four, or whatever!) Just a freelance piece on a woman's perspective on dating a feminist man, perhaps?
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kithkin
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
This is brilliant! Thank you Sadie!
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
Here is a brief excerpt:

"Esquire magazine recently featured the "How to be a Man" issue that included suggestions such as stopping a running toilet and killing an injured animal. These stereotypes of man that that are constantly cycled through the mass media are outdated and not really funny anymore."

Yes please, can I have some more?
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Macloserboy
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
Right now all their girlfriends are secretly boning guys who work at Maxim.
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BellaTricks
05/15/09

@Macloserboy: And don't forget Men's Health.
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morninggloria
05/15/09

@Macloserboy: Ugh. No. Nothing would make me want to have sex with a guy less than if he told me that he wrote for Maxim.

And I am REALLY GOOD at sex, so they're missing out.
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HuckleberryFriend
05/15/09

@morninggloria: Srsly. I once dated a guy who had Maxim on his coffee table and that was a deal breaker.
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save jinger
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
That's a novel concept, really. Feeling good about yourself without having to put everyone else down. Genious! Now if the ladymags could stop trying to make women feel bad about themselves in order to...wait, why do they do that again?
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TheFormerJuneBronson
05/15/09

@save jinger: ...to get them to buy things. Wouldn't it be kind of cool if we bought things because we did feel good about ourselves? Some of my favorite things fit that definition.
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Santos L Halper
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
But what do you write about if you can't insult people? Feelings? Issues? Pfft. Buncha wussies, I tells ya.
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GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11)
05/15/09

@Santos L Halper: I mean, what really is a man, except the opposite of a woman? And how will a magazine tell men how to be men, unless it's at the expense of denigrating all things woman? Blows the mind...
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jemandtheholograms
05/15/09

@Santos L Halper: Jeez, next think you know it's going to be like Jezebel over there.
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morninggloria
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
Bookmarked.
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poires et poireaux
05/15/09

In reply to Lad Mag
Yay! Those are my friends who are starting this. They are the most awesome, intelligent, progressive, feminist men out there and I am so proud of them and their project.
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BellaTricks
05/15/09

@poires et poireaux: That's incredible! Tell them I (and many others, I'm sure) think they're awesome.
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greengrey
05/15/09

@poires et poireaux: Are they single?
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CurtCole
05/15/09

@poires et poireaux: Looks promising, tell them thank you for providing an alternative.
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poires et poireaux
05/15/09

@greengrey: One of them is, for sure, and cute, too.
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inabook
05/15/09

@poires et poireaux: This is awesome. I might have to buy a subscription for my feminist boyfriend :-)
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jigglyball
05/15/09

@greengrey: Ditto. Fuck, I'll share.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
05/15/09

@poires et poireaux: Are they hiring for real?
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TurtleSpeak
12/08/08

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Tbat cover is so heavily photoshopped that it looks like she's wearing a skin-colored glove over her body. Or like she's a cartoon. SEXY.
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