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what purpose do they serve anyway?

i don't mind reading marie-claire when i've got nothing else to do (marie-claire doesn't treat readers like shallow bimboes, it actually has intelligent articles) but IMHO most of them are so stupid. i would never waste my money on such tripe.

― di, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Chinese takeaway around the corner from me has a permanent supply of Now! mags heaped in the corner. I can't look at more than a page or two without feeling queasy - not because I'm nonplussed by overt GurlStuff, but because the thing is so overwhelmingly fucking moronic.

Even the seediest Lad publications do not seem to assume such a low level of intelligence in their readers. This is very sad.

― Venga, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They seem to have a stock of maybe a dozen different types of article, used every second month or so, with only very tiny differences in content.

And yet I'll always read my gf's mags when they're lying about...

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The purpose of women's magazines seems to be 1. To sell makeup (particularly Allure); 2. to sell clothing; and 3. to cause eating disorders among women.

sleazenation, on the other hand, now that's a good waste of $6.

― felicity, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

purpose: no good one anyways...but they can be addicting (i swear i never spent any of MY money on them though). some are fun (nylon) to look at fashion things - i sew my own clothes so i get neato ideas from them. but yes, most are stupid.

― Emily, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can never resist forking out for any magazine which promises 'CELEBRITIES WITHOUT MAKEUP!'

Ditto for 'PLASTIC SURGERY DISASTERS!'

― Nancy Drew, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i find the blow job tips in cosmo quite effective

― anthony, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Company magazine this month has such disgusting pictures of WILLY INFECTIONS that you will never want to go near one ever again unless bloke in qn has a doctors note indicating clean genital bill of health urrrghhh.

My mother, since overcoming true screaming mentalism to be a functioning memeber of society or something, loves womens mags and paddling about in the shallow end of the kultcha pool. Fair enough.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*and* very same rag has a section on infected discharge, with illustrations of mushy peas, custard etc. most unpleasant.

― nickie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This month's blow job tip: "Do not suck these dicks"

― N., Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Zest had an article on how to tell whether your shit is healthy or not, to my great relief this was illustrated by a picture of a toilet seat and toilet brush (clean & unused).

The worst are the ones with pics of plastic surgery featuring little bits of skin discarded during face lifts, gross. Or the thing on Watchdog Healthcheck which was on when I was eating my dinner and had overly graphic pics of some woman's liposuction-gone-wrong. Thank god I wasn't eating meat at the time.

― Emma, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'If your discharge smells of Cabbage...' (erk)

― Sarah, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

erm, no comment.

― chris, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I never should have taken that job..

― Ally C, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Women's mags are useless but they're funny. I don't care if they treat me like a shallow bimbo, it's hilarious. Though quite honestly I wouldn't like to see any dick infections, thanks.

― Ally, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Cosmo, Cleo, Dolly & Girlfriend - I subscribe to Girlfriend. Marie Claire is too expensive. The only five things I find irritating about them are:
1 - The assumption that all their female readers do or will use tampons
2 - The assumption that all their readers are or will be corporate/office workers
3 - The assumption that all their readers are heterosexual (okay, so they do have token "I slept with a girl" and "I'm an SMBD mistress" articles, but the rest of the mag outside these articles still has a majorly hetero tilt)
4 - The assumption that all their readers can afford stupidly expensive clothes and make-up.

― toraneko, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oops, I can't think of a fifth thing I don't like about them.

― toraneko, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What I hate about Cosmo is the insistance on their articles about "work clothes" - yes, maybe if you are a prostitute with a naughty secretary bent, you could wear those to work, but my god if I showed up to work in a corset and a plaid spandex suit I'd be beaten.

― Ally, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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