Re: Psychology of a hype
Lisa M. Rabey (simunye@bigendian.com)
Thu, 07 Aug 1997 19:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
>
> I've flipped through those things on occasion, and I definitely wouldn't
> want my girlfriend reading them. Why? They give all kinds of advice on
> "what men want", "why men do the things they do", etc. Sexual stuff too.
> Everything they say about those things, I disagree with. Almost without
> exception. There's my reason. :)
>
> --David S--
<devils advocate>
I have been pretty busy these last few weeks, and while reading the
thread, but not *really* reading the thread, I sorta know what is going
on. And as usual, I had to find a post that ticked me off.
First off I agree with you david, womens magazines *are* a crock of shit.
Cosmo, Vogue, Mdsm, they are all the same with their 6' 100 lb models, and
thier "cheap suites" at 500 bucks a pop. WOmen have for a long time been
such media whores (both themselves and by the media itself). We are never
allowed to be "ourselves" and the images that we are told we "should" be.
Its absolutely ridculas.
But what pissed me off was that you "wouldn't want" your gf to read the
magazines, because of this, but this is another catch 22 about males.
Because the same guys generally who say this sort of thing, also tend to
read playboy, hustler, and other mags that while generated toward men,
tend to show women as these fantasy objects. and that is a crock of crap.
so excuse me, if you will please, the lovely hypocrysis that seems to be
running in our culture.
</devils advocate>
Lisa M. Rabey
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