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Re-assessing men's magazines : Comments

By Matthew Holloway, published 23/12/2011

Could girly magazines be moving average male attitudes to females closer to that of the rapist?

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Killarney,
Within google, Jezebel magazine is described as “gossip, culture, fashion, and sex for the contemporary woman.”

At least Jezebel magazine is quite blatant about it, but if the word “gossip” is stated, then how much reliability can be placed on anything else in the magazine.

And it is not just magazines. I have seen quite a few articles by university academics in recent times, that make a series of statements without any reference to any research or any type of study.

What is fact (and believable), and what is fiction is now becoming very difficult to determine.

And I would place women’s media as being a primary agent in this gradual merging of fact and fiction, or indeed, of replacing fact with fiction.

Suzanonline,
Someone else who can’t think of a word, so they say the word “misogynist” instead.

Did a feminist teach you to do that?

Next you will be saying, “abuse, abuse, abuse” like any well trained feminist.

“Men like to flick through men's magazines for the rubbish stories and the half-naked or fully naked women's pictures.”

Do they really?

I would like to see the statistics regards it.

Or are you simply giving some “womanly wisdom”, that you learnt from a feminist or a woman’s magazine.
Posted by vanna, Saturday, 31 December 2011 4:16:04 PM
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Dear vanna,

Sexist put-downs tend to trip off your tongue
at the slightest provocation. I'm beginning to
get the impression that you really have an
unhealthy obsession with women's magazines, and
male bonding. Are you overweight?
Posted by Lexi, Saturday, 31 December 2011 10:39:35 PM
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Lexi the lion,
More nastiness. Is that the extent of your wisdom?

You could answer this question, and display your wisdom.

Give a short list of properly run social science studies that have been undertaken into men in this country.

You won’t get much help answering that question from a women’s magazine. They normally have a lot to say about men, but are usually categorised as being “gossip” magazines.

PS. Not studies that have been undertaken in another country, and then the results extrapolated onto the men in this country. And not studies where the men weren't actually included in the study. And not studies involving a few male university graduates, and then the researcher tries to say that they are representative of all men in the country.
Posted by vanna, Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:40:31 PM
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Posted by Humphrey B. Flaubert, Sunday, 1 January 2012 2:03:44 AM
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Posted by Humphrey B. Flaubert, Sunday, 1 January 2012 2:29:40 AM
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we are feeling beings...emoting our inner being outwardly
and body language..dont often get recorded..into word

with words we cant see the wink
and have great difficulty with ambasidorial nudges
[so forgive me for saying things...only cause the feel good;..or felt good at the time][or rather hurt..to even think]

lexie i love you
but vanna is right
but...its buyer beware

we are supposed to be free..to read/see/hear anything...
others let us...its unfair to accuse vanna of obsessing with womans articles

[clearly vanna,..has searched for the article titles[shopped]
to make her point[and i cant say i dissagree..

but what can be said for womans mags...
can equally apply to mens mags..general media..even the groups we join

its rife in movies..and music..poisend the well for many
there is no safe dosage..[every word twists our perception]
every image creates our mental map

its difficult..to recognise
what a car looked like..before the car crash
just as its difficult...to see the child..with-in..us all

there are many comfortable in their skin
and a 50 year old functioning woman...[who might take off her clothing]..well thats better done earlier..than later..[a rule that applies to men too]

if vanna hadnt raised the awareness
of how low the bar has been reset
we would still be being/doing
things called..likely

Mr'sogenist-ing
personally im over blokes...alltogether
i can well see their silence...is much like destracted...by watching a cat fight...[i will be reviled for saying that]...

but im saddend...that were picking on one..
trying simply..to reveal the truth
with anything..its buyer beware

if it dont broarden the mind
it narrows it
Posted by one under god, Sunday, 1 January 2012 7:07:41 AM
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