I have this magazine in my hand. It should be thrown out, it was printed March 2011. I keep meaning to re-purpose it, re-contextualize and interpret its missives according to my view of life. Which is a pack rat's way of saying "I'm not sure I want this but there might be some good in it so I can't take the chance of letting it go."
I don't want to mention the name. I don't hate the magazine but I'm not for promoting it either. It is easy enough to figure out with article titles of "The Most Exciting Thing You Can Say to A Man!" "How to Perfect the Sexy Pout!!" "Lust Up Your Underwear!!!"
Once a year or two I buy this mag to find out how much of a sex pot I am not. I know for a fact I don't stand in doorways and peel open my blouse to show my breasts.
Wouldn't work anyway. I wear turtlenecks. And padded bras. Because apparently you can show breasts but you cannot show nipples. Nipples freak certain people out.
July 9, 2012 is supposed to be No Bra Day. I'm all for it if I'm home but I know most of us will contract unwanted and unasked for attention if we try let our girls roam free outside.
Y'all do what you want but I'm not going to be rocking left and right in a white t-shirt down Colorado Boulevard.
I don't have a white t-shirt.
Back to the magazine.
Page two. Don't have blonde hair. Don't need the miracle hair dye to enhance my blonde coloring.
Page three. Skinny jeans. Not skinny, lean or remotely within the realm of size 6.
Page four. More blonde hair dye with puffy lips. I have the puffy lips but they came with my body which is not size 6. Do I get credit for that?
Page five. Blonde girl in sexy black dress. I'm sensing a trend.
Page six and seven. Blonde girl has hands in her hair as a bunch of make-up is displayed on the next page. Four tubes of lipstick and three tubes of foundation for that oh so natural look.
Sigh. Skipping to page 11.
Brown hair girl giving a lip lock to abdominal six pack. What a relief.
What Have I Learned?
In the first 11 pages I have learned that blond women need a lot of make-up, hair dye, skinny jeans and black dresses.
And brown hair girls wear polka dot panties and suck face.
This is a lot to take in. I'm gonna have to meditate on this for a spell.
Okay, I'm done.
I'm going out into the real world.
Heh, yeah. When I pick up such magazines in waiting rooms, not much in them works for me. ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh, man can we feel any more inferior waiting to see a doctor and reading those magazines? We need drugs. We need the right clothes or we need so much make-up to cover our so obvious faults.
ReplyDeleteWe know better and we live accordingly.
So glad I'm not the only one! Thank you for posting!
ReplyDeletesome magazines do tend to make people feel inferior about themselves INSTEAD OF making them feel good about who they are and encouraging people to be themselves
ReplyDeleteAs I continue to read the magazine the business model seems to be make the person feel bad and then offer them a limited solution.
DeleteThere doesn't seem to be a profit area for natural beauty and acceptance.
This is why I stopped buying these magazines. Even the so-called 'bare-faced' models are wearing nude make-up. They have head-to-toe body make-up to cover flaws too. It's a bit insane. Let's not even get into the airbrushing. I think the editors of these magazines have such low self-esteem, they use these ad spaces to portray what they themselves want to look like..
ReplyDeleteYes, you are right but it goes deeper than that; if you can lock a woman into how imperfect she feels then that is a form of control.
DeleteYou can sell her anything if it will fix her defects. And there will be multiple defects that have an advertiser behind it. Sadly, as more tablets are being sold they will just migrate to web portals.
It is up to us to change the vibe from negative to positive.
Ha no bra day tomorrow? I only do that in the house (or outside with a bathing suit which isn't a bikini!) I'll have to wear my boulder holder because I've got to go close the month at work tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI used to read that magazine, but quit once I had my first kid because I knew I could never aspire to be so into superficial beauty with a post partum body. Sweat pants and tee shirts for me please...