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The Five Great Lies Of Women's Magazines
If you're reading this, you're probably wondering who this "Jezebel" is, and if she is, like, bipolar or something. (Answer: Probably!)
To put it simply, Jezebel is a blog for women that will attempt to take all the essentially meaningless but sweet stuff directed our way and give it a little more meaning, while taking more the serious stuff and making it more fun, or more personal, or at the very least the subject of our highly sophisticated brand of sex joke. Basically, we wanted to make the sort of women's magazine we'd want to read, a magazine that would never actually see glossy paper because big-name advertisers and the publishers who kowtow to them don't much like it when you point out the vulgarity of a $2000 handbag. Women deserve some of the blame here: if men ever bought $2000 handbags, Esquire and GQ might be as bad — and profitable — as Glamour and Vogue.
But in order to reverse the cycle it's important to recognize that there are a few big lies — we're going with five — perpetuated by the women's media.
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