Men's Memes: Duncan on lads mags

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Duncan on lads mags

Duncan has a good post up at the moment on Lads Mags.

Its interesting how in the last 10 years these magazines have become ever more strange, 2-Dimentional and out of touch with the average man. They seem to consist of endless fashion sections and photoshopped images of perfect looking naked or semi-naked babes in lesbian poses with eachother. Then I realised that this must be because the only people who would now waste their money on this trash are gay/metrosexual fashion-freaks, and the most retarded/poverty-striken men who can't access the Internet and must resort to a magazine to see some naked babes.

Of course, 'lads mags' are just a tiny niche of publications that men read, whereas women's magazines ARE what women read. For example, 9 times out of 10 if a man is going to buy a magazine it will be one like New Scientist, Computer Weekly, Empire, Top Gear, etc. In other words a magazine about a particular area of interest. Whereas the women's magazines are legion - take a look in a supermaket magazine section, there are litterally about 100 or more of these general women's magazines, next to about 5 men's ones. These magazines cover a general mix of subjects like fashion, celeb gossip, beauty, hair, and silly articles that relate everything to sex (eg ' how X (insert topical news item) can spice up a woman's sex life'). There are *SOME* more specific women's magazines, but all these do is take up one of the aforementioned subjects and focus on them a bit more. Shockingly there is even a magazine for women entirely devoted to the subject of hair. I kid you not.

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Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."