The whole purpose of fashion magazines is to make YOU feel inadequate

[MrScorpio]

Your house is under decorated, or just isn't lavish enough

Your spirit isn't helping you to self-actualize

Your children are underachievers and unruly

Your relationships are unfulfilling

You have no control over your life

Your mate is no good for you

You're too fat or too skinny

You have no fashion sense

Your pets are too common

Your job is dead end

Your car is too old

You're boring

That's what I get for reading Glamour Magazine

[maxsolomon]

1. turning wants into needs.

porn for hausfraus.

[BlueJazz]

2. Don't feel to bad..I just got done reading a copy....

...of "Beautiful Home and Garden" (at the Dentist Office)
When I got home, my house (in comparison) looks like a Shit-Hole! :)

[shance]

3. Consumer driven capitalism baybay......BUYBUYBUYBUYBUY

Because it's their job to make us feel inadequate and materialistically deprived.

Great premise to build a country on, huh? Say good bye to all those natural resources and hello landfills.

[ForrestGump]

4. Nope, it's to sell advertising

Those factors you mention are just seeds to encourage spending that will make the reader more like those sallow models in the ads. All consumer magazines are basically conduits for advertising, and advertising pays the bills -- it's just a bonus when the magazine's contents are actually useful.

I can't stand those mega-thick women's and fashion magazines...when I do pick one up to look for an article, I can't find the index because there're 370 glossy pages of ads (most featuring young heroin-addicted men and women who haave apparently all just lost family members or pets, as well as most of their shirt buttons and a few zippers) before the table of contents. Yuck.

[Nikia]

6. Buying the things in the ads is suppose to help

you feel more adequate. That's why there are a bunch of expensive clothes and make up advertised in women's magazines.

[skygazer]

5. Don't forget "you have a lousy sex life"

"Thirty-three ways to turn him on"

"Sixteen sexy moves that will keep him coming back for more"

"What men REALLY want in bed"

"Spice up your life with these ten sensational sexual positions"

Just the headlines alone sound like the friggin Kama Sutra!

[BiggJawn]

8. I *KNOW* my sex life sucks...

Don't need a magazine to tell me that...

[BiggJawn]

7. But I have kick-ass bicycles.

Lovingly restored and sensitively updated originals from the Age of Lugged Steel...

Beats the shit out of Vermont "Artisan-Churned" Butter ANY day...

[jpgray]

9. I actually think they are made to inflate my ego

They're like legible alcohol.

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