To hate Red Magazine after years of loving it

[merrygoround51]

Yes I know buying magazines is wasteful and unnecessary but I always enjoyed Red and in the olden days Easy Living magazines.

Red now seems to be going all arty photos and hipster. I am I just too old now? Is that it. Do I need to move on to Woman and Home ? I am not high fashion enough for Vogue

What mags do you read?

What annoys me about Good Housekeeping and Woman and Home are their very soft interviews with UK celebrities who usually have a new film, book or tv series upcoming.
Often they have had procedures done but gush about the skincare they use ( or flog ) and their healthy lifestyle.

Call it as it is.
I look like this because I've had botox, fillers and other interventions.

I do love Country Living, it makes me feel cozy, and it is aspirational without making me feel inadequate!

What irritates me about GH is that as far as they are concerned women without children don’t seem to exist!

I miss glamour magazine ! That was really good

It’s always the same celebs they have in GH Fern Britton,Helen Mirren, Dawn French,Lorraine Kelly and then repeat These celeb woman have no idea of lives of many woman Articles that talk about how they have great lives travelling the world or slowing down in retirement living best lives in Cornwall or some place drive me nuts!
They need to do more articles on inequalities in woman’s health or pensions etc and less on I gave up my career to run a insert craft activity here and did it with some “savings” and the other oft repeated articles. Also the pages on perfumes just why?? Now when I think of it maybe I should buy Socialist worker instead

awaynboilyurheid
You forgot Lulu.
And Michelle Mone
And Karen Brady
And Twiggy
And Cilla when she was alive.

Oops and Holly Willoughby

I miss Easy Living ...

Red is the nearest, and it does have good months, but more often it's too navel-gazing and clothes are a bit daft. Like others though, feel GH/W&H are too old.

I read plenty of books, but I do like a magazine for dipping in and out when just want a quick read - but am close to giving up on them.

awaynboilyurheid
Amen!

Ooh @DianneWhatcock I loved Glamour - I was gutted when they stopped it

New Woman too!

God I feel old

Get Pressreader free through the library! I read newspapers & mags from all over the world. It's brilliant

They stopped InStyle didn’t they? I enjoyed that and bought it every month in my 20s.

I feel like I see Julie Walters a fair bit on the cover of GH. I was also going to post about Dawn French and Fern Britten. The usual suspects.

Livpool I remember New Woman.

I forgot to mention Vanity Fair, which I also find has gone off the boil. I think I am just old .....

Serendipitty i agree. Good Housekeeping and Woman and Home seem to think we all have kids/grandkids.

Red did an article/interview with a woman about choosing to be child free in the September issue (which was out last month)

awayboily The Boots magazine have an article on the gender health gap in the current issue. Its also on their site.

bootshealthandbeauty.com/gender-health-gap/

Ah yeah @Livpool new woman was wicked !!

Another Readly subscriber. I read the ones about France, the history ones, whichever gossip of fashion ones appeal each week.

It saves us a fortune, reduces waste and means all three of us (plus my mum who uses a spare login) always have things to read.

I'm another one here who can't stomach women's magazines any more. Sounds like there are a lot of us in our 40s who remember when women's mags were good - I used to buy a lot as well. Now they just seem like a lot of advertising and flannel, and utterly unrelatable.

My guilty secret is Country Life magazine. I buy it very rarely but I love it, it's such escapism (I don't live in the country - and don't actually want to!) My favourite thing is drooling over the big country estates for sale and deciding which one I'd buy

Also I'm a Luddite - same thing with Kindles - I know I can read magazines and books online but I like the experience of curling up with the physical product ...

My guilty secret is Country Life magazine. I buy it very rarely but I love it, it's such escapism (I don't live in the country - and don't actually want to!) My favourite thing is drooling over the big country estates for sale and deciding which one I'd buy

I used to work for a Big Museum and Country Life was on the circulation list from the library due to all the auctions and coverage of art etc. I managed to add myself to the distribution list - I love Tottering-by-Gently!

Take a Break, Fate and Fortune!
You can contact your dead let's through the medium of Texas the psychic horse..what's not to love?

pets...

now that's more like it!

I do think there is a gap in the market though for decent women's mags with a good combination of enjoyable fluff and more thought-provoking content...

New mag launch for women over 55. Platinum. They are saying there is a gap in the market for it WTF Where? There is GH and W and H

pressgazette.co.uk/dc-thomson-launches-new-monthly-magazine-platinum-for-women-over-55/

Meanwhile women under 50 have lost Eve She and Easy Living and Red is the only one that remains. THIS IS THE GAP.