Stuff I don't get

[UnquietDad]

And probably a good place to ask about it.

Celebrity-worship. All those magazines called things like NOW! and HOT! They appear to be about people I have never heard of or have no interest in, yet who are inexplicably worshipped by the (almost 100% female) readership. And all those letters saying things like "ooh, I adore that belt Kate Moss is wearing in such-and-such, where can I get one?"

What is Ashton Kutcher? What does it DO? Ditto Lindsey Lohan and Meg Matthews and Fran Cosgrove.

Jeans tucked into boots. Any chaps here find that a good look? Boots, yes. The glossy and spiky-heeled and knee-length variety on a well-turned leg, oh yuss. But - with JEANS? WTF is all that about??

Sex and the City. Nope.... don't get it.

Shoes - probably a bit of an obvious one. I have three pairs. Smart, casual and very casual. Some blokes would consider even this a bit excessive. If I ever thought of going and buying six more pairs of exactly the same style in different colours, I'd think I'd gone mad.

And probably a good place to ask about it.

Celebrity-worship. All those magazines called things like NOW! and HOT!
But not 105 of women read them! I hate them myself - relaly can't see the point at all.

What is Ashton Kutcher? What does it DO? Ditto Lindsey Lohan and Meg Matthews and Fran Cosgrove.
Y'know I havnt' heard of any of these either

Jeans tucked into boots. Any chaps here find that a good look? Boots, yes. The glossy and spiky-heeled and knee-length variety on a well-turned leg, oh yuss. But - with JEANS? WTF is all that about??
Jeans into boots look - its suppoused to equal 'piratey' or 'principle boy' kinda look. It usually doens't work.

Sex and the City. Nope.... don't get it.
Girls and women are suppoused to like it because they have 4 female characters who are suppousedly 'strong' women to indentify with - I found them all shallow, man obsessed and pointless

Shoes - probably a bit of an obvious one. I have three pairs. Smart, casual and very casual. Some blokes would consider even this a bit excessive. If I ever thought of going and buying six more pairs of exactly the same style in different colours, I'd think I'd gone mad.

Well shoes do make or break an outfit, clothes - ie looking good are important to women. Think of it as part and parcel of the thing which makes them exfoliate, wax, tan and exercise those well shaped legs in boots that you like so much.

So there's my input - not all women are alike and not all men are alike.

BTW I buy car magazines but only those devoted to classic cars (I'm lusting after a triumph)

it's all a matter of taste....se the BJ thread...

My sister works on the fringes of politics and all I hear from her is the latest Westminster Gossip about Gordon Brown, Tony Blair or whoever. Now my sister considers herself to be an intellectual and certainly would never read Heat or the like but when she talks Politic Gossip it is exactly the same as listening to someone discussing how thin Posh is.

Celebrity watching is just watching life although not particularly interesting life and talking about it cos it stops us thinking about our own lives. I have been known to read them much to DP's dismay (him being a broadsheet type of guy) but I try to explain I read them when I feel stressed cos it is such mindless crap I forget about my own worries.

I have to add that I catch him reading them when he thinks I'm not watching and on occasion he will ask who is X and I pretend I have no idea cos I suspect he knows damn well who X is as I suspect you really know who Ashtun is. DP has slipped up on occasion a revealed he knows far more about celebrities than he let on.

Unquiet would i be right in thinking someone you care about reads these mags?

unquietdad, I agree with you, all those mags and "celebrities" leave me cold.

and I'm a girl (well an old one!)

agree with sex and the city, it has never really interested me, but i am a shoe freak about 20 pairs at eh mo which isnt too bad not compared to some of my freinds, i do read OK mag i think it gives you something else to think about other than babies and kids, i am currently doing jeans in long black boots today - everyone will prob moan at me now. However i am not really girly, i do all diy in the house, mend everything even the car i gave up motor racing before i had ds1 but still go to watch when i get the time.

PMSL at Panman

"it's all a matter of taste....se the BJ thread... "

Hurrah for men

Extreme shoes: I know a woman who has 127 pairs of shoes...yes one hundred and twenty-seven..been verified independently..and she read of the tip to Kodak Instamatic each of her purchases and stick the photo on the front of each box, to aid her in choice of shoe for a particular event. She loves Dune in particular and has 25 of their products, so relying on the box to identify the content is no use.

Be warned UD. And love your woman all the more..

I like shoes - I have to wear them & need flat ones & heeled ones & pretty ones & exercise ones & boots ... but I still can't have more than 12 pairs & some of those are almost falling apart. Mind you if I didn't find it so difficult to find ones that fit nicely I might have more!

I do like buying new clothes - I like the feeling of having something new that looks good. It cheers me up sometimes

What I don't really understand is flocking to wear what celebs are wearing. If I like something, I like it & I buy it. I like to be fairly fashionable but not like a sheep & if something is out of fashion & I like it then the like wins!

[quote]dh40k - been reading 'The Tipping Point', by any chance?[/quote]

Never heard of it. Just an amateur social historian...

[quote]not 100% of women read them![/quote]

It's odd really. Reading this thread you'd think that no one buys gossip mags at all. And yet they fly off the shelves. And they're starting to align themselves with the regular papers, too:

Broadsheet readers get "Hello".

Mail and Express readers get "OK".

Sun and Mirror readers get "Heat".

My DW likes to buy Hello irregularly. I even cast an eye over it myself (usually punctuated with questions fired at DW along the lines of "who's she?" and "I thought she was going out with that bloke"). She always seems to know who they are.

Admittedly, though, I managed to be under the impression that Tom Cruise was still going out with Penelope Cruz a month after Katie Holmes gave birth.

And if you understand what was funny about that last sentence, then you, too, have shown an interest in celebrity lifestyles, like it or not.

;)

R.

I'm a broadsheet reader and I get OK magazine [ occasionally ] because at least it doesn't solely feature third cousins twice removed of the Queen at polo matches like Hello.