Lexi
I don't bother at all with magazines.

They are a waste of trees, and many have so much women's media now in them, I consider them a highly unreliable source of information.

Our (illustrious?) Prime Minister was of course enthralled by the (not so poor) Oprah coming to Australia, whose recent visit to our shores reportedly cost the Australian taxpayer $3 million.

But hey, Oprah might have sold something to Australian women while she was here, (lucky things), or maybe she taught them some of her womanly wisdom.

Such as:-

"80 Inspirational Ways To Get Your Glow On"

or "Melt Fat With A Laser",

or "Don't Change Your Body, Change Your Jeans"

or "You Can Transform Your Whole Life In 60 Days"

or "Meditate and Lose Weight"

or "Want A swimsuit That Takes Off 10 lbs"

It is amazing what a woman's magazine can do to the mind of the modern women.

slippery slope, vanna...slippery slope.
(give 'em up now, mate, while you still have the strength to do so)

"I don't bother at all with magazines."

For a man who doesn't bother at all with magazines, you sure can name a hell of a lot of magazine articles - I'd be hard-pressed to remember any of the titles from articles in the New Scientist magazine I was perusing yesterday. I find it astonishing that you can remember so many titles from magazines you've not even read. Now there's a feat a memory that gives those pi-memorising savants a run for the money. You should get in contact with Ripley's Believe It or Not*.

*Personally, I fall into the Not camp. It just isn't plausible that you could remember all those articles without having bothered at all with magazines. The only logical conclusion is the one drawn by Poirot: that you are an avid reader of trashy gossip mags. Hey, it could be worse. You could be a Twi-hard.

Sheesh, how would Vanna cope without all those womens magazines?
He'd be bored!

I just looked up “women’s magazines” on the internet, and then went to some of their sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women's_magazines

I wouldn’t lower my standards enough to actually buy the brain-dead drivel.

But I did notice they mostly operate in the same way.

Have an article that makes the woman feel oppressed or depressed in some way, and then offer her some type of product to help lift her out of her newly imagined oppression and depression.

EG

“Got The Christmass Holiday Blues”, then why not buy “8 New Accessories To Brighten Up Your New Hair Style”

Its a very old marketing technique that the modern woman falls for every time.

I will stick to my BBC podcasts, or perhaps I can’t in the future, as they might be considered too manly, with not enough women’s media being incorporated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts

see that the sad thing is
everyone is right...in picking whats right 'for you'

its much the same...with..us all
no doudt in time we will have the anti magazine mag
as well as the anti party party..

[thing is if someones paying you
or entertaining you..or amusing you...
or flattering or trying to help you...then that mag is ok]

but all them others...[well they leave me too informed too depressed..to true to life..or too much in fantasia]

i find the more specialiased a mag is..the better i like it
if it completly covers the topic...revealing its done the re-search,..nanmed names..[laid the topic open]...

clearly..revealing the good
the bad and the ugly...[just the facts maam]
well they are ok...but as for the rest i dont read...well give me a free sample..[i will get back to you]...[if its any good..i will keep out the good...but the bulk of it i know...wont be]

thats how it was for me
[and stop talking about chocolate
i came accross some choci[or was it choka]..porn yesterday
it was discuss-sting...

it was like listening to elton john
singing 'brown dirt cow boy'...discussting
wether rapt-ed..in frilly lace or just sealed in plastic

but heck
its just a class-*sic
ed-u-kate-i-onal..dont you know