December 2011
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Anonymous asked: Hello :) today I was reading through my old cosmo magazines (I thought you'd be interested in this) and I got to the August 2010 issue and found the article, "Bound back (fast) from a bad health move" which at first glance looks like a really good article, but then you look at the picture and it's a girl sitting eating pizza in pyjama's, surrounded by pigs. Now, this is...
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Cosmo Taught Me: How to Properly Hate Scarlett...
Scarlett Johansson graces the cover of Cosmo’s January 2012 issue. On it, she’s posed in a purple, lacy dress that looks like lingerie (which, quite frankly, I covet, and it needs to find a way into my closet, seriously) and the headline beside her name says: “The Love Rule She Now Swears By.”
It totally makes sense for them to dress her up in something that looks like...
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gudiyarani asked: Love your blog, it's fantastic. My life would be nothing without satire! Anyway, I propose you start a new magazine/website called Posmocolitan and continue your lovely articles there! We'll make it just as famous as The Onion :)
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Cosmo Taught Me: American Women Are Unsexy.
Because I’m reading the U.S. version of Cosmopolitan magazine, one might assume that Cosmo thinks women from the U.S. have something going for them.
But the reality is that women from the U.S. are such failures at the “art of seduction” that they need Cosmo to exist in the first place. If Cosmo wasn’t here telling you how to fix your business, you’d be some sort of...
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dahlingnicki asked thingsilearnedfromcosmo: Your vulvodynia post is perhaps my favorite and most reassuring thing on the internet. Are you me? My story is IDENTICAL to yours, right down to the supportive boyfriend and me telling him to break up with me because I can’t have sex. (We’re still...
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elibennett asked: This page is all kinds of win. Probably one of the best tumblrs on the interwebs right now. And let me just say, I absolutely love that you address Cosmo's ridiculous treatment of period blood. I'm lucky enough to have grown up with a mother and older sisters who were very open and direct about menstruation, so it's always shocking/slightly embarrassing to come across someone who...
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Anonymous asked: I love and agree with everything about your blog. Never stop! More girls and women need to realize the true implications of what they're reading in magazines like cosmo. I think you're satirical approach is perfect because it really exposes the ridiculous, insulting nature of the things they publish. I think EVERYONE should read what you've got to say. Seriously made my day : )
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Cosmo Taught Me: How to Change Myself to Get a Guy...
Let’s be real: the only way we, as women, will feel fulfilled and happy on this Earth is if we are able to snag a man (read: trick one into marrying us by pretending we are pregnant) and then have babies. It’s, like, the rules of feminism.
So we need to exhaust all avenues in order to achieve this goal: we need to find them in their natural habitat (sports bar, sports arena, strip...