Women's Mag Mind Poisoning
July 26th 2010 08:32
I used to think that the only people who take women’s mags seriously are:
-teenaged girls
-bored housewives
-bored office girls with long commutes who are just marking time until they get married
-stupid
I was surprised to discover that my next-door neighbour, a DOCTOR, actually reads these silly magazines. Yes, she READS them, as opposed to flicking through for a glimpse of the season’s fashion and make-up trends. She is, BTW, always impeccably dressed for social functions.
I had asked Dr Marie-Claire if she wouldn’t mind passing along her Good Weekends after she was finished with them, as I don’t get the paper. She generously agreed, and started dropping off not just the Good Weekend, but all her other magazine discards as well. Who. Woman’s Day. New Idea. Australian Women’s Weekly. Harper’s Bazaar.
Apart from the stick-thin, photoshopped models, I don’t mind Harper’s Bazaar. It’s a good source of pictures to take to the dressmaker. But No Idea and Who? I had trouble believing that anyone who had slogged through 6 years of medical school, specialising in neuropharmacology, could possibly give two shits about Brangelina’s latest adoption or Madonna’s alleged face-lift.
For the past 6 months, Dr Marie Claire has been having screeching arguments with her live-in boyfriend. As our houses have virtually no space between them, I can easily overhear the rows. All her lines are lifted from the “Relationships” articles in these patronising mags. “I want a relationship where BOTH of us feel valued and BOTH of us feel loved!” she wails, from the depths of her Cleo-infected heart. One magazine recently deposited on my doorstep had a page folded to mark, ‘Is your Decision-Making Style Straining your Relationship?’
Am I right in thinking that:
-women’s mags brainwash women to think that their primary objective is to catch and keep a man?
-women’s mags encourage infantile behaviour that is guaranteed to make any man in his right mind run away screaming?
-women’s mag editorial staff are trust fund bitches from the Eastern suburbs who couldn’t give two shits about their proletarian readership?
-teenaged girls
-bored housewives
-bored office girls with long commutes who are just marking time until they get married
-stupid
I was surprised to discover that my next-door neighbour, a DOCTOR, actually reads these silly magazines. Yes, she READS them, as opposed to flicking through for a glimpse of the season’s fashion and make-up trends. She is, BTW, always impeccably dressed for social functions.
I had asked Dr Marie-Claire if she wouldn’t mind passing along her Good Weekends after she was finished with them, as I don’t get the paper. She generously agreed, and started dropping off not just the Good Weekend, but all her other magazine discards as well. Who. Woman’s Day. New Idea. Australian Women’s Weekly. Harper’s Bazaar.
Apart from the stick-thin, photoshopped models, I don’t mind Harper’s Bazaar. It’s a good source of pictures to take to the dressmaker. But No Idea and Who? I had trouble believing that anyone who had slogged through 6 years of medical school, specialising in neuropharmacology, could possibly give two shits about Brangelina’s latest adoption or Madonna’s alleged face-lift.
For the past 6 months, Dr Marie Claire has been having screeching arguments with her live-in boyfriend. As our houses have virtually no space between them, I can easily overhear the rows. All her lines are lifted from the “Relationships” articles in these patronising mags. “I want a relationship where BOTH of us feel valued and BOTH of us feel loved!” she wails, from the depths of her Cleo-infected heart. One magazine recently deposited on my doorstep had a page folded to mark, ‘Is your Decision-Making Style Straining your Relationship?’
Am I right in thinking that:
-women’s mags brainwash women to think that their primary objective is to catch and keep a man?
-women’s mags encourage infantile behaviour that is guaranteed to make any man in his right mind run away screaming?
-women’s mag editorial staff are trust fund bitches from the Eastern suburbs who couldn’t give two shits about their proletarian readership?
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Comment by Journeywoman
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I Dream of Hollywood
Fashion Peach
As for this:
Am I right in thinking that:
-women’s mags brainwash women to think that their primary objective is to catch and keep a man? Yes.
-women’s mags encourage infantile behaviour that is guaranteed to make any man in his right mind run away screaming? Yes.
-women’s mag editorial staff are trust fund bitches from the Eastern suburbs who couldn’t give two shits about their proletarian readership? Yes... but a lot of them are from the North Shore as well.
I like flicking through these magazines to keep myself up to date with trends (it's kinda useful when you write a fashion blog!) but I rarely buy them. IMO the best mags for women on the market right now are Notebook and Frankie.... they're among the few women's magazines without patronising articles, useless sex advice or totally fictional celebrity "news".
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Comment by Mitchell Hooter
LadyDiazepam
He's moved out and pops in on the weekend to endure her screeching. I suspect they accumulated a fair bit of debt buying the toys (big screen TV) and foreign vacations that she wanted.