I recently learned that Cosmopolitan started out as a “serious” magazine that published some speculative fiction. It may yet loop back around, as women’s magazines defy the stereotype that you can either be interested in politics or interested in makeup, but not both.
Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette
“Women’s publications have been offering substantive, worthwhile political takes for years now. That we still find this development remarkable is a measure of how our culture has segregated “women’s issues” from politics at large.” http://qz.com/866305
Young women ARE political creatures, especially now. My daughter is in this target demographic and she and her friends are passionate about social justice issues. Teen Vogue is really just writing fof their readers. Go them!
Young women ARE political creatures, especially now. My daughter is in this target demographic and she and her friends are passionate about social justice issues. Teen Vogue is really just writing fof their readers. Go them!
My daughter is incredibly political – even joined a political party.
My daughter is incredibly political – even joined a political party.
For more context, I learned that fact about Cosmopolitan because I’m reading an ARC of Brian Stableford’s new anthology, Scientific Romance, which is early spec-fic. One of the pieces, which appeared in Cosmopolitan in the late 19th century, has a bit where the future person is explaining to the traveller from the 19th century that in 1993 nobody, even women, follows fashion any more; they’ve all settled on a rational, hygienic style of dress. Stableford has a footnote in which he notes the irony that Cosmopolitan is now a glossy women’s magazine. I think his subtext is “it’s ironic because the author assumed that people, even women, in the future would be more rational than they are,” but another way to look at it is, “this author really underestimated the cultural importance of clothing”.
For more context, I learned that fact about Cosmopolitan because I’m reading an ARC of Brian Stableford’s new anthology, Scientific Romance, which is early spec-fic. One of the pieces, which appeared in Cosmopolitan in the late 19th century, has a bit where the future person is explaining to the traveller from the 19th century that in 1993 nobody, even women, follows fashion any more; they’ve all settled on a rational, hygienic style of dress. Stableford has a footnote in which he notes the irony that Cosmopolitan is now a glossy women’s magazine. I think his subtext is “it’s ironic because the author assumed that people, even women, in the future would be more rational than they are,” but another way to look at it is, “this author really underestimated the cultural importance of clothing”.