Why do Heat/Closer type magazines make me feel uncomfortable?

[theodorakis]

I am ill today, settled down on the sofa with a pile of magazines. I can't put my finger on why, but the Heat type magazines disturb me, it's a combination I think of the gleeful intrusion into celebrity women's lives and horrible judgemental headlines. Similarly, all of the male interviews and gossip seem to big up their sleeping around and "I lost my virginity at 12 to a 17 year old girl". I do appreciate that people like Katie Price need this publicity as well but the way she is talked about, as a human being is just vile. Is it just me who feels like this? I suppose I am a bit sheltered now, they don't really sell celeb magazines where I live so I don't really bother unless I am in an airport stopover on my way home. If I am right, how the hell did I miss this not so subtle whatever it is (misogyny? Sexism? Ignorant crap?) not sure what it is but I don't like it.

Ive just come off the Grazia website. Apparently there is a feature this week written by a man on how hes fed up with dating and just wants a wife.
Well of course he does. He wants a fucking housekeeper.
Do Grazia really believe that women are this thick?

Pleeeeaaasssseeee do not buy them. Let's starve their women baiting asses into folding.

Printing photo's of a famous woman's knees in order to criticise their appearance is hateful.

Just checked this and it would seem the feature in this weeks Grazia (about the man fed up with dating and wanting a wife )has been written for them by the features editor of ZOO magazine!

I bought Psychologies for the first time this week.

Not sure how I feel about it. I loathe 'women's' magazines for all the reasons already stated. I thought Psychologies might be a bit different.

It's a tad woo, and I'm really not interested in their fash features with £200 scarves, but there's no woman-bashing.

I walked past them this other week and noticed they were sporting pictures of how you can go on a 2-week diet and look like Cheryl Cole, cue 2 pictures the before in which she looks genuinely lovely and very slim already and the after in which she is starting to look a bit too thin...

It just made me think they really don't give a fuck about how the people reading this will think about themselves do you? To say a woman who can't possibly be more than a size 8 or so needed to go on a diet.

Anyway, they have moved from my harmless to officially evil camp now!

Teiwara i was absolutely disgusted and appalled by Grazias Cheryl Cole cover too.
In fact i was queueing in Superdrug last week for the till and in our local one you have to queue beside their magazine stand.
In front of me in the queue were four very pretty, slim and perfectly healthy looking young women. Two of them were saying how they were fat and needed to go on a diet. They had just been thumbing through the celebrity mags. They were beautiful looking young women and i told them so. I also remember saying to them that the most they should be worrying about is which club they were gonna go to on Friday night. i left the shop feeling very sad and thanking God that im not in my teens/twenties any more. I feel very sad about the pressure and mysogyny that affects young women now.