Oh. My. God. 

I've finally 'come of age'.

I've sent an email to a television station complaining about the disrespectful, tasteless, BOGAN content of their new morning show.

In a format more commonly found on the radio, some vacuous 20 something year old male host has invited the women of Australia to write in (text or email) and tell him if they pack a spare pair of sexy knickers in their handbags when they go out on the town - just in case they meet someone they need to impress.   (no need to guess who the expected demographic is)

Really?  This is what the morning TV has morphed into.  Gone are the cooking segments and the elegantly dressed women, the fashion, the human interest stories, the panels discussing current news items.  Now we have kids barely out of their teens asking about our knickers and our willingness to have sex with someone we've just met?   ewww yuk....

I'm not exactly a regular viewer of daytime TV but sometimes it's on in the living room while I'm doing other stuff - but not anymore.  

This global dumbing down effect has finally invaded every area of the mass media.  I had to give up listening to the radio because they got rid of all the middle aged hosts (and nice music) and put jerks in their place with horrible noise and inane chatter.  One morning I was woken to the topic of 'where were you when your waters broke?  Ring up and give us your most embarrassing stories.'   aaarrggghhh........

This isn't giving women a voice.  This isn't empowering them.  It belittles and demeans them......  er...... [Caroline gets off her feminist soap box and goes in search of some calming chocolate...]

I've been hanging around Mark too long.  I've got grumpy.  If I'm not careful, I'll start getting old like him as well! 

Hmm, I had to look up bogan.  Does that mean I'm not? 

I must say a lot of  supposed "Women's" magazines these days (like Femina and Cosmopolitan) scream out on their front pages articles like:"10 WAYS TO PLEASE HIM IN BED"  and "20 SEXY OUTFITS THAT WILL DRIVE HIM WILD" and "HOW TO Spoiler AlertGIVE HEAD LIKE A PRO"
 

Ok, maybe not quite that last one. 

When my son's teacher said I should start buying magazines so we could use it for when he needs pictures for his school books, I was thinking: "Yeah, right..."

Oh wait, there's still National Geographic.  I just haven't seen one in ages.

LOL, ROFL,  I'm cracking up here.  I referred a male creature to my post above, and he couldn't get past the sentences in caps.  The rest of the post doesn't exist for him.   Hahaha, this is sooo funny.  Pity about JA having new managment an' all. We used to be so damnably naughty on here. 

Originally Posted By Traveller (11 FEB 2012 6:24am)

I must say a lot of  supposed "Women's" magazines these days (like Femina and Cosmopolitan) scream out on their front pages articles like:"10 WAYS TO PLEASE HIM IN BED"  and "20 SEXY OUTFITS THAT WILL DRIVE HIM WILD" and "HOW TO Spoiler AlertGIVE HEAD LIKE A PRO"
 

... 

 

I think you may have stumbled onto a second career, Traveller...

as a writer for Cosmo. 

Cheers, Terry 

LOL, my case rests. 

EDIT:  Do you think anybody would notice if  make up things like" 10 WAYS TO..."  as I go along?  I often think that's what most of the writers of self-help books do anyway.

We writers make most everything up unless we're doing factual cases studies, biographies, hard news, etc., Trav. 

So no, feel free to express your opinions, feelings, hunches, speculations, wims and beliefs. They count too.   

Cheers, Terry

I just have to say how refreshing this thread is, so...

This thread sure is refreshing. You guys have given me some much-needed cackles.

Do continue!! Please!!

Trav

I got my eyes opened about modern teenage magazines in a media literacy class at university.  One group's presentation was all about women's mags from the 1950s vs today.  They had us in stitches with the quaint ideas about how women should please their men by having the kids and house clean and quiet before he walks in and the dinner on the table shortly after.  [Caroline glosses over the suggestions that the wife should remove the man's shoes and fix him a drink and feign interest in his boring day at the office while coping with her own stresses in silence.]   The advice about sex was the discreet suggestion that a woman should prepare herself every night for bed in readiness for the man to decide if 'relations' would happen or not.  So, a bit like the scouts - be prepared! And pretty! 

Contrast that to the modern magazines.... well, no cooking that's for sure.  No knitting patterns or suggestions on how to brighten up your kitchen apron with sunflower embroideries.  But plenty of advice on sex - always from the viewpoint of his pleasure is most important.  One article that outraged most of us was Spoiler AlertHOW TO HAVE ANAL SEX WITHOUT IT HURTING TOO MUCH.

So, nothing much has changed then.  Young girls are still being fed the line that pleasing their man is their primary function in life.   As a contrast, the magazines aimed at young males didn't mention relationships or how to give their partner's better sex at all but were filled with busty women in pornographic poses wearing teeny tiny bikinis that they couldn't possibly have gone swimming in.

I have recently read articles that sociologists in America are concerned that the easy availability of porn is having a detrimental effect on young men's ideas about women, sex and is hindering their attempts at relationships.    We reap what we sow, that's for sure.

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I wonder what man actually would like to do many of those things that these magazines talk about. A lot of the things just seem awkward, from a male point of view.

Originally Posted By Fnord (14 FEB 2012 9:25am)

I wonder what man actually would like to do many of those things that these magazines talk about. A lot of the things just seem awkward, from a male point of view.

Who knows, maybe the editorial staff do indeed just make all that stuff up, and so many girls follow advice given them in magazines like those, simply because they don't know any better.

I was quite dismayed that magazines I occasionally used to buy to check out the latest fashions, celeb and other news and interesting articles about health and research in general, etc, suddenly started being more than 50% full of that kind of advice.  ..and I wonder if it really sells more magazines?

Now I never buy "women's" magazines at all anymore.  I find it a total waste of money.

I stopped buying those weekly magazines when Princess Diana died.  When they lost their main cash cow, they filled their pages with superstitious nonsense.  How can I buy a magazine that has three or four pages full solid of adverts for tarot card readings and other ridiculous methods of finding personal advice?   

Nowadays I browse them when I'm in the check-out queue but I always read the recipe section!   LOL   So very middle-aged of me.  Rather amusing though, last week Angelina was on all the covers but doing different things: breaking up with Brad, cheating on Brad, getting married to Brad, starving herself and having twins again. 

Some journos' have given their imaginations a real work out.  

It seems to me that the way a lot of these magazine articles are written. I think the writers take a bag of kids magnetic letters throw them against a metal surface and which ever stick they write down and put into print.  

It's scarier to think that what they write is intentional.