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Soap Opera of Magazines
Date of Review: Aug 30, 2000
Glamour and Cosmo are the soap opera of magazines. There is no true content what-so-ever. Lot's of meaningless fluff from "How to make a Graceful Exit the Morning After" to "How to Make the Man of Your Dreams Marry you the Morning After". Yet for some reason we're all still addicted to it.
Every woman I talk to knows how meaningless Glamour has become (truly indisguistable from Cosmo) yet we all admit to buying it at the grocery.
I'll be the first to admit that I think my IQ drops 30 points after reading one of their issues and I laugh out loud at their 4 page photo-spreads of new sex positions (most of them variations of previous articles). Yet they're honestly fun to read, just like soaps are sometimes a fun shameless indulgence.
They have a feature called 20 questions which glibly helps you find out what type of person you are (most recently "Are you dot.com or bricks and mortar") Not rocket science and definitely not thought provoking, but definitely cute.
If you feel like curling up in a bath with something mind numbing that will help you forget for about an hour the bills you have to pay, deadlines at work and that fight you had with your boyfriend then this is a fun safe bet. It's not as trashy as Cosmo (the one magazine that still makes me blush at the checkout stand) but still provides you with a laugh or two.
I wouldn't recommend anyone spending the money to subscribe to this magazine. I honestly believe it's best for the occasional laugh now and then. I would say steal your friends copy now and then for a mental break but don't take anything in there too seriously please!
A note of warning: there target demographic is unmarried women mid 20's to early thirties, so if you fall out of the range you most likely will feel that nothing in the magazine applys to you and most likely won't even get a chuckle or two that rest of us do.
