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Taking (yet another) cue from Jamie Keiles, whose Seventeen Magazine Project, prompted my little foray into Cosmoland, I wanted to see what types of products are advertised in its pages. This breakdown doesn’t include all of the advertorial items included in the what-to-wear, how-to-be-beautiful sections, but rather the actual ad spots. As expected, there’s a [...]
Life According to Cosmo: How to Attract a Man
by Cristen Conger | July 20, 2010
Before I get into the topic at hand, I should quickly point out that this isn’t your average HowStuffWorks.com blog post. Typically, we don’t include videos of ourselves yammering on about a blog topic, but in this instance, I wanted to demonstrate these hard-and-fast Cosmo tips for attracting a man since they’re all about gesture [...]
Life According to Cosmo: Taking Cosmo Dares
by Cristen Conger | July 13, 2010
The quintessential Cosmo reader is supposed to be fun and fearless, which is perhaps why the magazine insists on daring women to complete a laundry list of somewhat ridiculous tasks. July’s “20 Dares to Take On After Dark” involve everything from quite sane suggestion to share more about yourself to a romantic partner (which Cosmo [...]
Although Cosmo is heavy on teaching readers how to be as conventionally pretty as possible, it also wants gal pals to eat, drink and be merry. To a point. The body consciousness that echoes throughout fashion and beauty features naturally boils over to its food and drink offerings. Cosmo urges us to have buckets of [...]
One of my favorite regular sections in Cosmopolitan and tabloids are the celeb couple body language breakdowns. They’ll show a photo of, say, Beyonce and Jay-Z sitting together at a Knicks game and point out how they’re leaning 20 degrees toward each other and pronounce the pair partners for life. Then to contrast, you’ll see [...]
Last night, I started my Cosmopolitan exercise regimen, included in the “You, Even Better” section of the magazine. Because see, the “fun fearless female” in Cosmo’s tagline is never content to simply be herself. Instead she must, she must, she must increase her bust this July with a six-minute routine guaranteed to be “better than [...]
These adult onesies made their comeback a couple summers ago, and now Cosmo reports that guys have jumped on the bandwagon and are simply dying to see women dressed up in the one-pieces. I’m skeptical of the claim since a) I couldn’t find you a majority of women, much less men, who adore rompers, and b) I’ve never heard a man express interest rompers aside from the perplexing bathroom mechanics involved with wearing one. Not to mention that we don’t know who these romper-crazy “guys” are who Cosmo supposedly commissioned to tell women what “fun fearless fashion” to wear this July.
Listener Scott pointed out that it might be hard for me to live the Cosmo life because the amount of full-page ads in the ladymag probably drowns out any legitimate copy. Of course print relies on advertising to create a product, and the more they can sell, the thicker the final product. Which could lead [...]
The other night, I did something that I haven’t done since my high school days. I plunked down on my front porch and read the ultra high-brow July issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Yes, that Cosmopolitan, aka the kneejerk metaphor for pretty much everything wrong with women’s pop culture today.
And no, it wasn’t an affinity for cover girl Shakira that led me to fork over my hard-earned $4.29.
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