tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post111228544239371970..comments2024-03-19T14:44:41.142+00:00Comments on incurable hippie's musings and rants: I Suddenly Lost My Appetite...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post-42628206235750009302009-10-20T09:54:53.383+01:002009-10-20T09:54:53.383+01:00Informative site with some great historic posts - ...Informative site with some great historic posts - is it ok to link to some of these from my blog?Debt Advicehttp://www.debthelpquick.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post-1112519796989747992005-04-03T10:16:00.000+01:002005-04-03T10:16:00.000+01:00MetatronI agree to an extent. Cosmo, Marie Claire ...Metatron<BR/><BR/>I agree to an extent. Cosmo, Marie Claire etc. *are* offensive and demeaning to women. They make us judge ourselves and other women on the basis of our appearance, weight, thinness, socially imposed beauty standards. They sell us a product of disatisfaction with ourselves and so we starve, spend and starve some more.<BR/><BR/>Porn mags are offensive and demeaning in different ways, as well as the above ways. They promote to men a view of women as sexually available, easily manipulated, men's playthings, there for men's pleasure. They sexualise and objectify women in ways which have been proven many times to be a 'how-to manual for rapists'. They teach men and boys a view of women's sexuality which is twisted and abusive.<BR/><BR/>There are of course crossovers. The societal beauty standards are ever present in porn mags, and sexually prescriptive standards are promoted in women's glossy mags.<BR/><BR/>But it is not about counting articles about sex. It is about the whole message that these magazines teach their readers.<BR/><BR/>Women's glossy magazines, *and* porn magazines are both offensive and detrimental to women and feminists. Just in somewhat different ways.incurable hippiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13537972928288562694noreply@blogger.com