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[g_na]

I went to the gym today for the first time in 6+ months (yay me!) and paged through a discarded Cosmopolitan magazine to while the time as I was ellipticalling away. I don't know if Cosmo has gone through any changes since I last looked at one, but man, I have nothing in common with their target audience. I don't look like the people in the

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[rivetpepsquad]

do NOT take the comso audience as representative of human nature.

for the love of GOD, we're talking about a rag that actually advocates breast implants for a Greater Attractiveness Quotient (at least, as of MY last reading, which would have been about sometime in college).

BURN THE MAG PLZ.

[g_na]

Funny you mention that. In this (recent) issue it had a blurb about how you can move your breast implant from on top of to underneath the muscle for a better look. Gah!

[rivetpepsquad]

EW.

and i reapeat: EWWWWWWWWWWW.

[msjen]

Remember the time we got drunk and read Cosmo? Ah, those were the days. Anyway, I don't know if you remember this particular gem, but I still have that horrible, offensive article about how to ditch your friends at a party to go after a guy. Just to remind me how horrible things are. Those magazines are evil.

[g_na]

Heheh, yeah, I was thinking about that time when I was writing this. That may have been the last time I saw a Cosmo (thankfully).

[msjen]

Yeah, me too.

By the way...

I read a study recently about how young girls read and interpret "YM" and other teen magazines (that are of course precursors to Cosmo). Among many other things, the researcher found that the girls in her study couldn't distinguish ads from articles, because they're designed to look so similar. For example, they would look at a Maybelline ad or whatever and say, "Oh, this just tells you how to put on eyeliner." The girls were actually shocked when the researcher suggested that there were a lot of ads in the magazine and pointed them out.

Scary stuff!!!

[drangnon]

I don't think anyone who reads Cosmo takes it seriously at all. it's like something to read when you are at the salon, or the gym, or drunk with a bunch of gay friends so everyone can bag on the folks in the pictures and their inferior fashion sense.