Comments on: 15 Greatest Lies All Women’s Magazines Tell

By: sweetcherry

sweetcherry — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:35:39 +0000

i never read magazines like cosmo but my sister does.i think mags like that are garbage. but i agree with candy mens magazines are worse and they have articles like how to cheat on your girlfreind and just all kinds of bad stuff.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:43:53 +0000

Just make it illegal to print fiction without a warning label on the cover stating it as such. Although I guess that might cause some issues with bible-sales.

By: James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil

James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:41:06 +0000

I was sure there would be some women insulting the author and claiming he has no social/sex life. Sure enough. there they are.

I think maybe it hits too close to home. You don;t need citations when they are on every magazine stand in the world. If you can’t understand that, you wouldn’t be able to read citations anyway.

By: candy

candy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:59:23 +0000

you are right about womens magazines. i agree that they and constantly tell women that they are not good enough. but, at the same time, mens magazines do the same thing only in a much more degrading way. mens mags are filled with lists about women and how we suck. they tell men that women are stupid and annoying and silly. and mens mags stereotype women more than womens mags do. not all women like chick flicks and crappy music. maybe you should look at yourself before you criticize womens mags. at least cosmo has articles on how to please your man, how to make your man happy, what to do to stay in shape for you man. do mens mags ever tell men how to be better for women? no. why is that? are men just that good? if men hate women and everything we do so very much we not just be gay. or hey, why have a girlfriend? why not just pay for sex or sleep with a bunch of hos. why bitch about us when no one has a gun to your head. either suck up or deal. don’t constantly complain about how annoying we are. thank you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:35:26 +0000

I agree with Anonymous. Maxim is male Cosmo. They all lie.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:41:38 +0000

John, who still marries men for money these days? How old are you exactly? If dumbfuck misogynists would acknowledge the wage gap (equal pay for equal work, not just “more money for having a vagina”) and other forms of gender discrimination in the workplace, everyone would be financial secure enough to judge others on personality first.

That being said, the wealthy men I know enjoy being sought after for their wallets (although they call it “attracted to power”). They don’t mind dismissing ambitious women in favor of pretty faces with intentions as transparent as the space between their ears. That’s one thing I don’t understand. If you’ll pardon the generalization, it seems men embrace their stereotypes, are proud of even the worst, while any woman who complains is written off as a shrill feminist.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:34:11 +0000

I think women’s magazines are fucking retarded and would never read them if not for so much of my life wasted in doctor’s offices. That being said, in their defense I have NEVER once read anything encouraging women to disregard qualifications and training to seek a better position. This sounds a lot like the myth of affirmative action, that no racial minority or female in general could achieve something by their own merits. Actually, what I have read encourages women to have more confidence in pursuing what they want, backed up with rationality. Such as many women do not take the risk of asking for a raise. Then telling the woman to speak with her boss with specific examples of her work-related accomplishments and other standards of productivity. They also encourage women to follow their passions and include examples of lawyers leaving their practices to open their own businesses, which also describe the intial steps and likely hardships. It’s always leaning towards the optimistic, true, but also with a dose of reality.

By: lady liberty

lady liberty — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:02:33 +0000

real journalism has gone underground because the mainstream media can no longer discuss truthful issues!

http://www.infowars.com/letter-to-the-society-of-professional-journalists-ethics-committee/

By: T

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:44:58 +0000

http://www.manolith.com/2010/01/10/bra-color-status-in-facebook-is-hot/ — read this if you don’t agree with my previous comment about crap in men’s magazines. Where’s the respect for women in that article, furthermore, where’s the respect for men? You’ve all been reduced to grunts who couldn’t care less about something unless its for sexual purposes in the article by the author himself and then he blames *women* for it. Maybe we didn’t post our bra colors for your enjoyment, did that ever occur to you?

By: T

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:41:28 +0000

I agreed with everything you had to say until the last sentence about men’s magazines. They aren’t honest. How many times have I seen “decoding her X” (replace X with thoughts, signals, etc), instead of encouraging communication and simply asking your girlfriend/wife what she thinks?
About the galleries of half-naked girls… we are always presented as sexual fodder who are objects for wanking *first* — the “stats” about us, our names, ages, professions, etc. are just there to fuel the fantasy. You can’t tell me that the majority of men see us as human beings… in fact, men’s magazines present the idea that women exist to give you an erection and orgasm, and that’s all. If you poll women about their dating experiences, many of us will tell you that’s how we’ve been treated by at least some of the men we’ve dated, and that cannot be in small part due to insecure guys who read that trash, and have to see us as the “enemy” because they haven’t learned how to cope with their own insecurities yet.
It also tells insecure men that women love men who are wealthy, arrogant blowhards, that we don’t like the nice guys (as if you can classify half of the almost 7 billion people on this planet, all of whom are women, as one “type.”) So then these same guys regurgitate this crap to us… oh you only like rich men. Really? Who have you asked?

Please don’t vaunt men’s magazines as some kind of pillar of truth, because much of what they say are filthy lies designed to hook clueless guys who don’t know how to deal with their maleness in a responsible or intelligent way yet… when abusing substances and sleeping around becomes any more healthy for men, let me know.

By: MPK

MPK — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:03:41 +0000

this specific form of media is to drive consumerism by preying on gender insecurity plain and simple. such a waste.

By: jeteye

jeteye — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:05:08 +0000

Hum, the citations would have been nice, but in general, yes, most rags tout to the lowest form of loneliness in woman and prey upon their insecurities. There are NO quick fixes, but that would not sell magazines if you really had to apply yourself. I unfortunately married a woman who used to read Cosmo religiously, and I wish I had read this article BEFORE I married her!!!

By: Jester of the Apocalypse

Jester of the Apocalypse — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:14:12 +0000

My wife had a subscription to Cosmo and I used to flip through them when I was bored. I remember there was a long spell of articles written by some gal with an axe to grind, about how women, to empower themselves, should demand oral sex from their man, and never reciprocate.

It made me think, “Wow, this miserable bitch is trying to ruin the relationships of her readers!” Because how does that “empower” a woman? It’s just going to alienate your dude.

The problem with womens magazines, or Oprah, or a lot of other “sources” for women is that they create some kind of dilemma (“Is your man not putting down the toilet seat enough?”) and feeding it as some kind of “empowering” issue to bring to her man. (“His leaving the toilet seat up is a sign of disrespect that you need to address. If he seems confused or unwilling to understand, maybe it’s time to move on.”)
Yeah, he’s going to be confused and unwilling because he just got home and his lady is jumping all over him for no reason at all!
It’s a shameless pander to womens’ need for drama, which can only end badly.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:52:47 +0000

MSN home has a top 15 of whatever crap each day. Today, I think it is healthiest foods. Not necessarily bad, but written in the same style as Cosmo, ie no depth, recommendations without support, etc. CNN is doing the same. I don’t mind the idiot, fluff mags, but does everything have to start mimicking them?

By: YOURE SO RIGHT

YOURE SO RIGHT — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:08:58 +0000

YEAH WOMEN LIKE THIS BITCH ARE WHY MEN HATE SKANKS

http://ihatejade.com/?id=anns4476cx13f5ts621uq0xicf0v4j

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:42:09 +0000

Here, have a citation:

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/

By: razaelelimar

razaelelimar — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:41:38 +0000

different people has differ taste! cheating your friend’s wife is greatly perfect for you but 8’s sinful. for the other side so hurt and painful. tnx

By: hwkd65

hwkd65 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:29:48 +0000

everyone get a life and TAFR!

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:20:29 +0000

When our hopeless corporatist societyleaves us in full realization of our reality, we tend to run to escape the deepest depression and truths of our pitiful existance in the golssy full-color dreams of magazines the movie sets all become our new psudeau-realities, and we buy in to “The Man” instead of rebelling and joining eco-villages of truth and sustainable realities no matter how ugly they may seem at first! Unfortunately the “American Dream” lifestyle of the “Smokestack Era” emmigrated to China and we flounder now in our unsutainabilities and seek jobs at pay-levels that no longer exist for the common folk, the Patriots without immens skill-sets! The corporatist “System” in its great greed for faster ROI had forsken its biggerst “customer’ and no longer even produces shawdy cars for them to buy! What has happened here? Ha the American Capitalist and Corporatist methodology broken down? Yes it has! China did it with superior intelligentia, pooled to advise and enlighten a commie regiem Hell bent on aquiring the World’s finite reaources for themselves, not the Americans who mow require 80% of finite world resources for maitainance of their “Status Quo” and find that hard to achieve with a weakened, defamed U.S, “Papper” dollar against the well backed Chinese “Yuan” on world markets! Even the oil monopoly is breaking up! Those of us who enjoy the delusionary life of the magazines and TV shows are now coming up short, and feeling it! One cannot survive on “Dream Food” as well as “Dream Luxuries” can they!

By: CG

CG — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:44:08 +0000

It should be a crime to publish something this ignorant and offensive as fact.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:25:11 +0000

It should be a crime selling false information.

By: PM

PM — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:33:42 +0000

The magazines fulfill the social need of people who want to know what the group is thinking. It’s called social discourse. If you read those mags, watch TV, etc., you cannot help be influenced. Good article. See if you agree or not by looking at a Woman’s (or Man’s) magazine.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:10:39 +0000

John said: Women are basically stupid. Look who they date and marry these days, mostly for money and other wrong reasons. Women have TERRIBLE survival instincts…terrible.
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John, you’re contradicting yourself. Marrying for money IS a survival-oriented move.

By: Nana

Nana — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:08:37 +0000

Great discussion about this article going on at http://www.Stormfront.org.

By: John

John — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:20:36 +0000

Women are basically stupid. Look who they date and marry these days, mostly for money and other wrong reasons. Women have TERRIBLE survival instincts…terrible.