Jul 18 2008
Split Personalities: Women and Their Magazines
Have you ever noticed the split personalities of most women’s magazines?
I’m not talking about Cosmo where we all get to dream abut being young and single in a manner that we never were. You know, the single girl who lives a glamourous life and has satisfying six on a nightly basis with the hunk of her choice. Oh, and has an unlimited budget for clothes and shoes.
The truth is we all know that Cosmo is all about fantasy and not real life. so we’re not talking about Cosmo. We’re talking about magazines like Woman’s Day and Woman’s World, magazines that are purported to be for the average American woman.
Sadly, these magazines have a split personality. On the cover, there is almost always at lease one story promising a new way to lose 20 pounds without dieting or walkoff your excess weight and then in aother part of the cover is a lovely food dresser experiment that looks better in a glossy magazine than it will ever look in you home.
Yup, it’s the double barrel shotgun, split persoanlity approach to magazines: here’s the fat-filled gourmet meal of the month and then some fad diet to get rid of the excess fat that we just told you to eat.
I am not saying anything about the women who read these magazines other than the idea that we, like our magazines have split personalities. We all want to eat the rich, yummy desserts and somehow remain (or get) thin without working at it.
It’s a lie that we tell ourselves that we can have it all and it will be easy.
I should be more worried about that, but I’m not. Right now, I’m more interested in how to make guilt free chocoloate bon bons and lose weight while sleeping.
