Cosmo is for average women, not women who are sharp as a tack and can sense bullshit coming a mile away. This isn't for women who can take 2 seconds to re-read what they just read and point-out all the flaws in logic. This mag isn't for women who are in any way grounded to reality. it's not for critical thinkers who make decisions based on their own observations and gut-feelings. Cosmo is for the average woman, in other words, Cosmo is for women you most likely wouldn't even want as a friend because they'd bore you to tears.

Guys don't want an average woman (unless that average woman is willing to let us bang them with minimal effort, of course). For the long-run, guys want interesting women, women who go out and ride horses or rock-climb or go para-sailing despite the fact that they have Genital Herpes (don't you just love those commercials?).

Cosmo is a magazine that tells average women to be more than what they are, a noble gesture, but it gives horribly skewed and inaccurate tips on how to do it. Being the average Lemming, they follow the directions to the letter, even if it takes them in circles or straight off a cliff.

I forgot my original point, but I just wanted to share those few thoughts. >__>

Thanks for summing up my thoughts... I will look back at this fondly when I have to glare at them in the grocery store.

I had to go to school with (and still do) this dumbass slut who said she didn't read books, only magazines. If I were more of a glutton for suspension, I'd have punched her right there. I'll bet she was reading this one!

A rag like this should be reduced to a simple pile of ash. See, it's ONLY about sex. I remember seeing one cover article claiming that you could have an orgasm "again...and again...and..." No amount of Tide would remove THAT stain! Not to mention, uh, HOW? Isn't that physically impossible? Does the human body not work that way? It's worse than ametuer fanfiction!

Great article, yo.

Sometimes it's painful being an intelligent human being in modern candy-floss pop culture.

Cosmo's just as sexist to men as women IMO. (Though it probably reaches more women than men, the content is offensive to anyone with a brain.)

And I would *HOPE* you don't have to be a woman to understand that most of us are not brainless skanks. (Although according to Cosmo's stereotypes, you don't care anyway.)

Haaaaaaaaaagh, must read the rest later! Love it so far.

As far as reviewing the EN sites goes, I did sorta do so in the latest blog post, which actually began as the second part of this comment before it got insanely long. Hopefully I wrote something worthwhile in it...!