Robert and Lexi,
You may be interested in the top 25 magazines sold in Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation#Australia

Only one men’s magazine makes the top 25 (at 20). Few men buy men’s magazines, and less and less are now buying newspapers.

Unfortunately, there are quite a few women’s magazines on the list. Rarely are the articles in these magazines based on any science or proper research, but are simply made up by the author to satisfy the reader’s desire for gossip.

Such articles fill women’s media, and that media is growing, and now extending into mainstream media.

Perhaps that is why so many men don’t bother with mainstream media any more.

It now has minimal reliability.

Dear vanna,

There's no accounting for taste is there. To each his/her own.
And that's the point that we're trying to make to you.
People (male or female) have a choice in these matters
and what they chose to read (or not) is entirely up to
them. However, you seem to infer that women do this or
women do that - and as RObert tried to point out - you
don't allow for individual differences. Not all women
do what you claim they do - and you should at least
acknowledge that - the same as not all men do what they
are accused of doing. Sweeping generalisations can't
be taken seriously. Anyway, I suspect that we're wasting
our time in any further discussions with you. You seem
hellbent to portray all women in a negative light for
reasons only you know why.

Vanna, did you actually look at circulation figures in that list, or just where the magazines were ranked?

The most popular magazine is the Australian's Women's Weekly, with a circulation of 502,441. The population of Australia is approx. 22,000,000. Assuming that half the population are male, that leaves us with 11,000,000 females. Some elementary artithmetic will show that this means that, at most, approx. 4.5% of women read Women's Weekly. In other words, fewer than 1 in 20 women read the most popular woman's magazine in Australia. What are you getting so worked up about?

And why does your misogyny extend to the very large majority of women who don't read that tripe?

Vanna's point is well made and clearly puts the ridiculous claims of the article in perspective. Interestingly, the phenomenon seems to be largely an Australian one, based on the figures for other countries taken from the wikipedia entry. In most oother countries the popular magazines are ones relating to specific interests or industries.

Women's magazines have been encouraging anti-male attitudes and vacuousness for years, whether poirot and lexi are prepared to admit to reading them or not. Those attitudes have become pervasive to the point that such people simply don't even notice the fact that they possess them.

Some intellectual honesty wouldn't go astray.

W

anti/quote...""Some intellectual honesty wouldn't go astray.""

with pictures?

its funny how vidio games
and commics..havnt rated a men-tion..

vanna them search terms were pure gold
[i ended up with naked lust]..that evolved from the alure

but my first...seems to have done major injury
to my fist..oh the sheer frust-ration..of it all
just the simple things...like assess-ing..the fem-in-ine of the big @

words are too slippery a slope
give me pictures...who read the art-icles

Robert, Lexi,
What more proof do you want. Men’s magazine sell very few copies in this country.

Minimal research has actually been undertaken into men in this country.

This article for example, is based on research in another country, and is not based on men in this country. I also cannot find the actual research paper to see if the sampling would be representative of the men in that country. The university itself doesn’t even link to the actual paper, or the link is hidden away somewhere, so the whole thing is now highly suspect.

As for women’s media, it is probably the most manipulative and most consumerist media there is. It is also becoming more pervasive, and entering more and more into mainstream media. As well as predominating in the magazine market, it is gradually filling the TV channels and newspapers, but it is media based on gossip and psychological manipulation of women to get them to buy the products being advertised. Oprah is an example.

There has been the most minimal attempts made by women themselves to clean up women’s media, which basically means, they are fully accepting of it.

Humphrey B. Flaubert
Within the top 25, there are Woman’s Day, Better Homes And Gardens, New Idea, That’s Life!, Cosmopolitan, Dolly, Who, Cleo, NW, Marie Claire, OK!, Australian House and Garden, Girlfriend, Women's Health &, Donna Hay.

How could you overlook so many and not see them. Are you a feminist?

All targeted at the “female demographic”, which basically means they are filled with gossip, advertising, and articles of no reliability. They are also becoming normal media.