girlie magazines...buah?
It's a bad habit of mine to get sucked into the interwebs when I should be working. I'm trying to break this, but once and a while I get drawn into cracked.com. Yeah, I think we've all been there at least once. I limit myself to one or two articles knowing it can go on forever. Tonight's choice was a special one, and...y'know what I'm just going to put my horrified musings about magazines and women behind a cut to save y'alls friends pages, but just let me say Cosmopolitan is scary. Never date anyone who reads it.
Which include but are not limited to putting chili pepper in your man's shorts, Ex-Lax Brownies, and other physical abuse, like crushing his balls. Because you have to punish him if you *think* he's cheating on you.
Anyway, I read this on cracked.com and think, Really? This can't be at all right, I know there are some weird things in Cosmo, but no, it can't be! So of course I totter off to the Cosmo website to see if it's just as messed up as they say, and...y'know...it kind of is. No, they don't publish advice on how to physically abuse your S.O. these days, I'm guessing that was from some much older, less politically correct issues, but...it still has me saying...
WTF
I've known many girls, now women, who read this schlock, religiously. They're mostly single as publications like this turn already insecure girls into paranoid delusional insecure girls, because most women start reading things like this when they're about sixteen and it seems to re-wire something. Sad but true. I remember sneaking my sister's Cosmo mags when I was about that age, or a bit younger, and being thoroughly confused and horrified. I haven't read it since, except for over people's shoulders on the subway out of boredom and nosy-ness.
But, I don't think bad magazines are all to blame. It would be easy to say 'oh yeah, those stupid publications are turning women into freaks', but that can't be true, because I also knew a lot of girls who Don't read this shit...and they Still think like this! So it kind of frightens me that either a- girls have so much indirect programming and influences through culture, t.v., sit coms, entertainment etc. that they are just completely nurtured to be nuts-o. OR b- the female kind is hardwired to be evil (yes we all know what Bob has to say on that matter, but remember this is from a woman's perspective and if one is born an evil fiend one doesn't really identify as an evil fiend because being an evil fiend just isn't much out of the ordinary, now is it? P.S. We are all trying to kill you.).
Perhaps this is why I could never be a lesbian- the vengeful, hateful, Ex-Lax-Brownie-Making suspicious, manipulative, paranoid nature that seems to have infected a lot of women out there. Why do you men put up with this? Is it just passed off as a cliche that you have to deal with because 'well women are just crazy'...ok yes women are crazy, I have my moments too, but they pass and I endeavor to be a rational human being in between the crazy.
I mean...isn't life too short to ruin a whole batch of what could be perfectly good brownies with Ex-Lax? I don't know what happened to me that I stopped thinking like a vindictive shrew after about the first year of college, but for all of my crazy moments, I can't hold onto them. It just doesn't do. There's no sense in staying angry about things. I think there came a point when I realized I never used to be a particularly nice person, and perhaps that keeps me in check.
But anyways. Women should stop reading Cosmo. There isn't anything in that stupid magazine that one couldn't learn from one good, long, frank conversation with their significant other. I mean really. Your best guy friend could put all of those stupid advice articles in a nutshell for you.
Ok the health and beauty tips are not so bad, but I am not putting my nail polish in the fridge. I love food too much to risk cross contaminating with fumes.
Thank you this has been an unscheduled exercise in procrastination, which is an excellent use for LJ. I'm going to finish sorting patterns and go to bed.
Cheers!
Sleepy Kitty =^-.-^=
Which include but are not limited to putting chili pepper in your man's shorts, Ex-Lax Brownies, and other physical abuse, like crushing his balls. Because you have to punish him if you *think* he's cheating on you.
Anyway, I read this on cracked.com and think, Really? This can't be at all right, I know there are some weird things in Cosmo, but no, it can't be! So of course I totter off to the Cosmo website to see if it's just as messed up as they say, and...y'know...it kind of is. No, they don't publish advice on how to physically abuse your S.O. these days, I'm guessing that was from some much older, less politically correct issues, but...it still has me saying...
WTF
I've known many girls, now women, who read this schlock, religiously. They're mostly single as publications like this turn already insecure girls into paranoid delusional insecure girls, because most women start reading things like this when they're about sixteen and it seems to re-wire something. Sad but true. I remember sneaking my sister's Cosmo mags when I was about that age, or a bit younger, and being thoroughly confused and horrified. I haven't read it since, except for over people's shoulders on the subway out of boredom and nosy-ness.
But, I don't think bad magazines are all to blame. It would be easy to say 'oh yeah, those stupid publications are turning women into freaks', but that can't be true, because I also knew a lot of girls who Don't read this shit...and they Still think like this! So it kind of frightens me that either a- girls have so much indirect programming and influences through culture, t.v., sit coms, entertainment etc. that they are just completely nurtured to be nuts-o. OR b- the female kind is hardwired to be evil (yes we all know what Bob has to say on that matter, but remember this is from a woman's perspective and if one is born an evil fiend one doesn't really identify as an evil fiend because being an evil fiend just isn't much out of the ordinary, now is it? P.S. We are all trying to kill you.).
Perhaps this is why I could never be a lesbian- the vengeful, hateful, Ex-Lax-Brownie-Making suspicious, manipulative, paranoid nature that seems to have infected a lot of women out there. Why do you men put up with this? Is it just passed off as a cliche that you have to deal with because 'well women are just crazy'...ok yes women are crazy, I have my moments too, but they pass and I endeavor to be a rational human being in between the crazy.
I mean...isn't life too short to ruin a whole batch of what could be perfectly good brownies with Ex-Lax? I don't know what happened to me that I stopped thinking like a vindictive shrew after about the first year of college, but for all of my crazy moments, I can't hold onto them. It just doesn't do. There's no sense in staying angry about things. I think there came a point when I realized I never used to be a particularly nice person, and perhaps that keeps me in check.
But anyways. Women should stop reading Cosmo. There isn't anything in that stupid magazine that one couldn't learn from one good, long, frank conversation with their significant other. I mean really. Your best guy friend could put all of those stupid advice articles in a nutshell for you.
Ok the health and beauty tips are not so bad, but I am not putting my nail polish in the fridge. I love food too much to risk cross contaminating with fumes.
Thank you this has been an unscheduled exercise in procrastination, which is an excellent use for LJ. I'm going to finish sorting patterns and go to bed.
Cheers!
Sleepy Kitty =^-.-^=