Comments | pargoletta: You Must Read This

pargoletta

You Must Read This

Feb 21, 2011 20:42

So I came across this blog that mocks and deconstructs Cosmopolitan with humor and grace. I'm instantly hooked.

(Fun fact: Usually, when getting on a plane, I buy a copy of Time magazine at the airport. It's like a little ritual. I subscribe to Newsweek, so Time is my airplane thing. If I'm away for less than a week, I will often buy ( Read more... )

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cricep February 22 2011, 05:01:03 UTC

I just commented - I had to. The author is a very nice girl in person and I agree with a lot of the stuff she says on her blog sometimes, but I disagree bigtime with her views on this and now we're having it out.

pargoletta February 23 2011, 15:58:13 UTC

My main beef with rape-prevention articles like the one she was deconstructing is the atmosphere of hysterical fear that surrounds them. Just for that alone, I think the deconstruction was worthwhile.

cigarettes214 February 22 2011, 17:50:48 UTC

Whenever I read Cosmo, I flipflop between having tears in my eyes from laughing and being completely enraged. Luckily, I take nothing from it seriously, but I know plenty of women who do! It seems so damaging.

pargoletta February 23 2011, 16:00:10 UTC

I figure, one is free to do as one likes with articles in magazines like that, but how sad it must be to be a full-time Cosmo Girl.

Although, truefax, I did get the idea for the money-management plan that stood me in good stead throughout the first ten years of my post-college life from some magazine that, if it was not actually Cosmo, was very similar. (I don't remember which magazine it was.)

littlelinor February 22 2011, 22:11:06 UTC

I love the trigger warning.

Also, yes very yes. So being blunt mean people will expect your "no" to mean" maybe"? Riiiight.

pargoletta February 23 2011, 16:01:21 UTC

The trigger warning is awesome. I bet it would totally change the tenor of the Great Internet Warnings Debate if it were more widely known. Instead of whining about "having" to give warnings, people would be actively clamoring to warn for triggers in their fics, just so they could use that picture.

littlelinor February 23 2011, 16:02:38 UTC

... wait, people are complaining about having to warn for triggers?

pargoletta February 23 2011, 21:56:35 UTC

Yup. There's debate on what to warn for, how to warn for it, and whether to warn at all (some people feel that warnings destroy the suspense and artistry of their work).

My personal policy is that I give relatively broad warnings, since I suspect that the primary merit of my fic is style rather than plot, and I am happy to adjust them should someone complain that the warnings I give are insufficient.