Humphrey I'm not confident that circulation equates to readership in the way you've suggested.

From the Sports Illustrated Wikipedia page "Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated , this appears to be sourced (in part) from
http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp where the numbers are given in terms of total paid and verified circulation (not just subscribers).

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 3,207,861 3,207,861

A paper I've only skimmed at http://www.mediabiznet.com.au/pdfs/auditreport.pdf seems to give a lot of details on the sales aspects of Australian magazines.

Antiseptic, perhaps you'd have a look at a couple of the titles that vanna used to criticise Jezebel early on but doesn't appear to have t had the decency to read. As usual any good points he may make are lost under the flood of generalisations and a lack of balance.

My views on the topic so far
- the author (and those who did the original study) are stretching things too far and the core of the article isn't valid
- anybody taking the contents of trash magazines too seriously is not likely to benefit from it
- most adults don't take it all that seriously, good for a giggle ( just look at the pictures, don't read the articles)
- trashing either gender based on stuff like this requires the ability to ignore a whole bunch of stuff pointed at the other gender.

R0bert

Humphrey B. Flaubert
Still flicking are you? Perhaps you would like this website.

http://www.paperdollheaven.com/en/

One under God,
But don’t you understand. Women’s magazines are an essential item. Without a woman’s magazine, the modern woman mightn’t know how to look.

Study this website carefully to understand what I mean.

http://www.look.co.uk/

Suzanonline and Lexi,
Hi there inspirational feminists.

Still waiting on an answer regards previous social science questions and men.

Feminist seem to know a lot about society, although feminists generally don't like to answer too many questions.

Too above it all.

Robert,
I read the Jezebel articles, and note that Jezebel magazine is defined in Google as being “gossip, culture, fashion, and sex for the contemporary woman”.

The first word is “gossip”.

There are 100’s of social science studies undertaken each year, mainly of small groups of university graduates in the US. It has become an industry that feeds women’s media.

EG “New research shows blah, blah, blah. “

Then next week, a so-called social science researcher at another university releases another study that shows the opposite.

Eg “New Research shows opposite to what was previously thought blah blah blah.”

That is social science.

It is as false as Oprah.

Dear vanna,

Sorry - I can't take you seriously.
Labelling people and stirring only
works for a limited period of time.
I'll leave you to your antiquated tactics.
Enjoy your gruntlement.

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Lexi,
I’m very upset, but I thought you wouldn’t be able to answer a question.

Maybe someone else can answer a question.

Is there any difference between women’s magazines, feminism and gossip?

Humphrey B. Flaubert,
I thought you were a flicker.

Is there any difference between women’s magazines and porn?

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