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Date Posted: 13:22:22 03/14/06 Tue
Author: lump
Subject: Re: www.heartless-bitches.com
In reply to: lump 's message, "www.heartless-bitches.com" on 10:46:03 03/14/06 Tue

23 - I have to agree with you on the movie thing! LOL!

I wouldn't say that magazines lessen expectations, but give us expectations of what we're to be that aren't capable of. I could stop eating completely and never look like the Olsen twins. I could exercise all day long and never be shaped like Jessica Alba. I'm only 5'2" with decent shoes on. I could never be a happy housewife. I'm too impatient and time-restricted to make a checkerboard cake. The relationship help in these magazines won't work because there's only 1 of me working on it. My child won't eat salmon. And I shop about as effiecently as possible. Oh - and that $150 handbag is out of my league. Hell I can't even get my eyebrows trained to look like Oprahs! They give us all these examples - just like tv - that we are supposed to strive for, when in the end, we're still just ourselves. If you take these magazines to heart - which is impossible for a smarter person because they'll have How to Loose 10 pounds in a Month right next to 4 Delectable Brownie Recipes - you get the picture that you are not good enough. And that's just Family Circle!

I noticed that guys are falling down this spiral now too and their magazines are just as bad. They'll have a half naked absolutely gorgous girl with a bottle of vodka on one page and an article about the top 10 complaints wives have on the next page.

I don't know. That site, btw, is not a man-hating sight at all. It's more of a "WOMAN SPEAK" site - and most men will like you better if you do anyhow (which is the general idea). The name, heartless bitches, is rather sarcastic.

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[> Re: www.heartless-bitches.com -- 23, 13:43:12 03/14/06 Tue [1]

It's a wicked combination. Not only do they give you impossible standards to live up to, they are asking you to strive toward and prioritize all the wrong things (IMO).

Do you ever see any articles in those magazines about trying to become a BETTER PERSON (rather than a more attractive one, or one that has more orgasms, or one that has the coolest clothes)?

I can just imagine the heads that are filled with this nonsense. Basically, they seem to be creating needs and wants where there were none. And those needs and wants they create can be fulfilled by buying something that is being offered by one of their sponsors.

And you're right, "men's" magazines are just as bad - Maxim & the like. All style over substance.

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