mens magazines vs womens magazines

i think womens mags seem to be better on the whole. a bit of eye candy is nice of course, even if it could do with being a bit less airbrushed and glossy all the time, but womens mags seem to have better articles. from reading the observer womens mag, red (which i read while waiting 1.5hrs to see my doctor the other day - why is it whenever you go to the dentists or doctors, theres never any mens mags? only womens?) and harpers bazaar (nice 'arts' section), they seem to do more interesting articles on their audience (ie women) in a slightly more serious way. not that i necess want mens mags to be all touchy feely but it might be good to read something intelligent on say, men's thoughts on marriage, being someone who doesnt make much money, coping with a partner who makes more than you, etc etc alongside the more lighthearted stuff.

or do these articles already exist and i just dont read them? (i admit i havent picked up gq or esquire - i think thats gone bust hasnt it? - in an age).

Alls I can say is, if you honestly have issues like "Oh No One Partner Makes More Money Than The Other And I Need Help With This!" you ought to look into reading something other than magazines.

most of the content of women's mags that I see involve dating and sex tips, losing weight, fashion and cosmetics.

I'd read men's magazines more if they still published science fiction. i still read men's magazines more than women's -- Esquire especially -- because they occasionally contain something like hard journalism. Women's magazines, not so much.

most of the content of women's mags that I see involve dating and sex tips, losing weight, fashion and cosmetics.

Word.

I only ever read them in the laundrette, they are too too depressing. (Except for when they occasionally get Oprah's magazine in, which is more like "reach your potential" and stuff.)

I like it much better when I go to the Indian takeaway next door and get to read GQ which has 1) pictures of hott men and 2) articles about interesting things like, erm, cool gadgets and stereo systems and interesting things to do

Mainly I think it's about the hott men, though. I'd much more like to read a womens magazine if it had pictures of hott men instead of airbrushed 15 year olds advertising lipstick and cosmetic surgery.

Ok but what if it was hott 15 year old men?

Upmarket mainstream women's mags - either harmless fluff, condescending drivel or venal society girl shit
Downmarket sleb women's mags - somehow more misogynistic than Nuts

Downmarket lads mags - does anyone still buy these?
Upmarket 'now your life can be just like Daniel Craig' mags - you are Patrick Bateman, seriously turn yourself in now before someone gets raped or murdered

"most of the content of women's mags that I see involve dating and sex tips, losing weight, fashion and cosmetics."

i never read those articles.

unless im at the hospital and have no choice but to read fucking cosmo.

Upmarket 'now your life can be just like Daniel Craig' mags - you are Patrick Bateman, seriously turn yourself in now before someone gets raped or murdered

Ok but whether it's to prove their ball size or not, some of these magazines send journalists to Iraq.

Ok but what if it was hott 15 year old men?

15 yo men are very rarely hott.

Actually, I shudder to think what yr average womens rag would try to sell us as hottness in males.

Dominic West is getting the love from women's mags right now.

Show me a British male who got through their teenage years without reading the sex tips in Cosmo and I'll show you a fucking liar.

No doubt that I looked at Dad's mag stash, but I actually READ Mom's mag stash.

it had its uses.

Literacy!

tbh the way to cope with a partner who makes more money than you is to think "Score!"

(I'm male, btw.)

^^correct.

xp suzy: Idris Elba is on the cover of a gloss magazine here in the US

Jesus, really? Which one? Because that is a deadly hot man.

I actually have most of these piled on my desk right now. I didn't know that Front magazine was aimed at emo kids. It's basically Kerrang with nipples.

i thought that was Bizarre.

former colleague has 'extreme' column in a women's mag here and OMG plastic surgery it bugs me so much.

xp Idris is on the cover of Essence - living in Oakland, our 7-11 stocks a lot of African-American targeted magazines.

you heard it here first but Sept Vogue cover is Michelle O - again.

They are both fucking horrendous.

men's fitness mags vs. women's fitness mags

i read that mens fitness mags sales are somehow on the increase due to the new ideal for mens bodies no longer being the rake thin top man model.

You'd think they'd sell less, then. And issues of "Meat and Drippings Monthly" would be way up.

most readers buy it with protein shakes and beef.

why is it whenever you go to the dentists or doctors, theres never any mens mags? only womens?

cuz women be hypochondriacs

gq sends me issues for some reason. are they conde naste? maybe when i renewed new yorker subscription there was something that gave me gq too.

kind of shitty mag imo. tho the 'men's fashion 101: must haves' type of articles are good for lols. things like 'every man must have this $1000 gucci belt." "for casual look this fall no man should go w/o these $800 jeans"

I don't go to the doctor unless I'm bleeding or unconscious --> no chance to browse Southern Living.

My dentist has Field & Stream.

"Field Dressing & Blood Stream"

Ok time to stop trying to be funny.

Their demographic probably pays people to deal with all the gore.

Tried to read this month's 125 Sex Tips That Will Drive Your Man Wild!!! In Cosmo, but they were all like "Put his penis in your mouth" - I don't think women actually need that explained.

Esquire usually has interesting content, GQ and Details are worth 20 minutes to read at the store. Men's Health is usually okay but they repeat the same FOODS FOR THE BEST SEX OF YOUR LIFE every month, which mostly seems to be "get plenty of zinc so you don't need Viagra, old man."

Outside and similar hiking/mountaineering/etc mags are my lifestyle porn.

CRAWL is getting rebooted again...

Love the hand-holding quality of some men's fitness mags, where they'll impart incredible life knowledge like ways to work out on a plane and carefully guide you through yr diet for the next week with virtually no actual cooking and consisting entirely of skinless turkey and reams of semi-mythical Oriental berries.

If you're paying money for all that knowledge you sort of deserve to be spoken to like a moron.

low end men's exercise mags are fun because they are such obvious secretly-gay jackoff material, the photo spreads will feature gay porn actors as often as not, also the classified ads in the back are good for laffs

ladies' exercise mags are sorely lacking in sapphic subtext in comparison imo

I got yer men's health right here:

Eat some meat. Eat some potatoes. Eat some fruit. Do push-ups every other day until you can't do them any more. Do sit-ups every other day until you can't do them any more. Get eight hours of sleep.

I'll put that health regimen against any one that anyone else can think of, ever.

Possible alternative: get landscaping job. But you don't want to go that way, man. You'll be ripped, but you'll almost wish you weren't.

And you won't have time to brag about it either, working 12 hours a day landscaping...

I thin k out of mens & womens mags, Details has the most readable articles.

Details is a magazine for polyam-bi MMF couples.

It's broadened its target audience, then.

It also tells you that, yes, TIES are BACK IN!

This is fantastic news for people who have to wear them every day, in or out, I'm sure.

"SHIRTS: keep on wearing them bcz THEY are IN."

"Ties are back in." Really, what idle moneyed fashion hell is this?

SLACKS, always wearable!!

Articles that show up in _____________ magazine every couple months

These magazines all operate on the Playboy advertising model, still. "Sell them things they can't afford, to give them hope of sleeping with girls who would suck in bed anyway, because they only fuck price tags."

This to me is a little bit... out.

I guess that's a pretty goddamn obvious opinion, isn't it.

Satire, stereotype or the real thing?

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