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more about #womensmagazines lavenderstain: I hate people who trivilize words with serious meanings to just pop fodder-- Hitler, War Criminals, Genocide, holocaust...these words have seroius con... more » ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox): The View is my guilty pleasure and I knew my not-so-guilty-pleasure Jez would post something about this. :) more » Highsmith: I've never seen the view (only online clips of it) but I love Joy B. (I'm watching her show at night). I think she's right -- (traditional) women's ma... more » hortense: Honestly, I think The View has hurt women just as much (if not more) than many magazines have. more » Sputnik_Sweetheart: Dude, your magazine says that K-Fed is one the most influential men under 45. Kevin Federline. The man who brought us such fine work as Popozao. Not t... more » Mushu_the_educated_whale: That's an awfully bold statement coming from a magazine with KEVIN FREAKING FEDERLINE on the cover. more » Raederle: What a stretch of a claim to make. Maybe women are reading non-gendered substantive magazines like The New Yorker and The Economist. Maybe women are r... more » LazyHippo: This is like arguing that men are smarter and better students because historically male universities are generally bigger and better than historically... more » Muggs Bigglesworth: He is not wrong. more » cand86: I really wonder how the Internet affects things . . . I never read magazines outside of a waiting room or grocery store checkout line, but I have read... more » jfwlucy: I have to say that one factor here is that many women aren't encouraged generally to have opinions or be informed on politics and sports and things. ... more » lurkerbynature: Because they're reading Playboy for the articles. Yup, heard that one before. (I do know that Playboy does have a history of quality articles, but t... more » snugbug: ..I just thought of something else to add: It feels like women's magazines are in general more image-driven than copy-driven. Maybe that's the more cr... more » Fishbear: They're right. Nothing terrifies the wimmenfolk more than the prospect of spending an HOUR reading a great piece of writing in a magazine. I read th... more » bellejay: Case study: I bought GQ and Marie Claire for a 4.5 hour train ride on Monday. I was totally engrossed in the GQ, and read every one of its incredible ... more » La Madrugada: Some men's mags have great articles in them on topics that would never make the cut in a women's magazine. Esquire might have cheesy covers, but they... more » Diziet_Sma: He's right that men's mags run better features, but he's kidding himself if he thinks that's why men buy them. It's probably why women buy them - I kn... more » Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: "DOES COSMO HAVE HOT JEWESS PHOTOSHOOTS? DO THEY? HUH?" more » EkaterinaBallerina: Hah, big words from a guy whose magazine probably generates the most traffic/sales from naked or scantily clad women. I worked in digital media. I wor... more » clochette: I agree.... with the first bit. Obviously not the part about women being 'afraid' of reading a longer article! My bf's GQ has a politics and an atti... more » -
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Joy Behar Muses About The Demise Of Women's Magazines
You've gotta chuckle when she calls the people who run women's magazines "war criminals." But if she thinks women won't get "attacked" online, she's clearly never been to any gossip or fashion websites. -
#redmeat
Details Editor Says Men's Magazines Better Than Women's
"Just look at the features in men's magazines. They're often much meatier than the fare you find in women's magazines. What does that tell you? That guys aren't afraid to spend an hour reading a great piece of writing." [MediaBistro] -
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Woman's World: Essence & Cosmo Make "A-List"
AdvertisingAge's magazine A-List is not about ad pages or circulation: Winners are magazines which "truly operate as brands." Some mags in the top 10 — The Economist; National Geographic; People — are no-brainers. But Essence and Cosmopolitan are interesting choices: More » -
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Tina Fey Sheds Her Smart Girl Image In Bazaar
Tina Fey is on the November cover of Harper's Bazaar and though she's the antithesis of the cover girl who "doesn't work," the accompanying photos look like any other fashion spread. Has Tina become just another pretty face? More » -
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Elle Highlights Women In Hollywood Who Actually Work
Last week, Aymar Jean Christian complained that women's magazines feature "women who don't work." But the November "Women In Hollywood" issue of Elle has 5 different covers, and, GASP — each features a different working actress. More » -
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Why Do Women's Magazines Pick Cover Girls Who "Don't Work?"
Aymar Jean Christian of SpliceToday has a bone to pick with tabloids and women's magazines: their covers are plastered with "Lauren Conrad, Jessica Simpson, and the Kardashian sisters," and "these women don't work!"
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3 Reasons Ex-Marie Claire Editor Hates Ladymags
Liz Jones, whose anorexia stunt piece disturbed us last month, writes in the Daily Mail about her career with women's magazines — and why she now finds them "patronising, fake and pointless."
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#wha
Meet The Most Mysterious Ladymag In The World
"VAIN is an online and print lifestyle magazine that applauds the appearance and achievements of young women who are beautiful and somewhat flawed."
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Ex-Cosmo Editor Calls For Less Stabbing, More Knitting In British Ladymags
Former British Cosmo editor Linda Kelsey is "shocked, bewildered and disgusted" by British women's magazines and their cover lines like, "I breastfeed my puppy" or "Lesbian Incest: My Sister and I Want A Baby." More » -
#funfearlessfemale
Sex & The Single Girl: Why Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown Got Canned
Legendary Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown helmed the ladymag for 32 years, and didn't go easy: apparently it took a series of flippantly tone-deaf gaffes to get the sorta-feminist doyenne fired. Heroine or relic? More » -
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Tit-For-Tat: Confessions Of A Re-Sized Bra Shopper
It really feels like 2008 was the year of "You're Wearing The Wrong Bra Size." But is it all just a bunch of B.S. or do we too easily accept bra sizes as set in stone?
