RSS1 Reason Why I Don’t Read Cosmo and Other So-Called Women’s Magazines
- They suck.
Way back when, almost ten years ago, I found Bitch Magazine sitting tucked behind women’s glossies on the top-most shelf of the bigbox bookstore. It was love at first page flip, finding a magazine that addressed real concerns (e.g., the challenges of working mothers vs the latest celeb diet) and whose politics where right there in their tagline: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. By this time my feminist consciousness had been raised and I was deep into theory. I’m not sure how it went for other feminists, but I found myself unable to even flip through traditional women’s magazines. To me they became icons of women’s present day oppression: how-to manuals on subordinating oneself. All I could take away from them was that women don’t need others to oppress them, they’ll do it fine themselves as long as they can try to look hot while doing it.
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You could always flip through it for a good laugh. That’s really all the good Cosmo does.
But what are we laughing at?
I love the ONN. Great stuff. Much better than anything on television.