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Just read this article at the CBC site. I'm not a huge magazine reader, but I have friends that are -- these friends, however, are men. So I've consumed a lot of Esquire and Details in my time, and I've been reasonably impressed at the level of journalism they can hit at their best.
But not being a "magaziner," I can't help but wonder if the authors of this article are making fair comparisons, and how women might feel about the conclusions they're drawing. I notice that FHM and Maxim don't get examined as men's magazines, and I'm not sure if there's a direct one-to-the-other magazine comparison possible (are "Glamour" and "Esquire" comparable? Did the authors omit "Cosmo" because it also scrapes the same barrel-bottom as "Maxim"?).
Any serious magazine readers out there have any further insight on this? I thought the article was interesting and it brought some arguments I'd never considered to the table (Die Alone!), but I don't know enough about magazines to know if it was on target or not. |
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