Comments on: Do you want fantasy or reality in women’s magazines?

By: popsugar

popsugar — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:54:25 +0000

women are all shaps and sizes. but all the guys here commenteing are dumb and worhtless not everyone has big tits and a big ass some girls are smaller girls and some are bigger. and who gives a rats ass what men what all men are ugly and worhtless the only ones whom like them are fat ugly whores. healthy pretty slim girls think they are worthless and should be killed. men are the reason women have low self-esteem. i’m naturally slim and healthy. i’m 5’4 129 pounds does that souns to skinny to you?

By: Elias

Elias — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:14:12 +0000

Women are Women more like ‘Woe to Men. If they stopped shopping the whole economy of any country would collapse, One only has to be in any shopping area and one would see that mostly or entirely women buying any and everything.
magazines cater to women’s fantasies with fashions that are out of this world and mostly not wearable in public and it is not surprising women enjoy looking through these magazines. As long as the sale of these magazines remain lucrative, magazines will continue to fantasize women for they are in business to profit by it. Sales of reality in fashions in women’s magazine would not be as profitable as the magazines with fashion fantasies.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:31:35 +0000

I can’t say I was ever particularly influenced one way or the other by the way women are portrayed in magazines, as an adolescent or as an adult.

My shape is curvy with a small waist and big chest and hips and it’s always been hard to find clothes that fit well, but I don’t lose sleep over it. My shape is what it is. I eat well and exercise to keep my body healthy and teach my daughters to do the same. Hopefully they are too busy hiking etc. to fret endlessly over what not-the-norm models look like. A woman who is comfortable in her own skin is much more attractive than a woman who is neurotic, whether naturally slim or naturally curvy.

Some people like being skinny and wearing clothes well; that’s their choice and no less valid than my life.

By: Joisah Soap

Joisah Soap — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:16:07 +0000

I want fantasy. I can see reality every day when I walk down the street. I think when people read this here and think reality they think someone who is of slim to average build and pretty. In reality most women are overweight and not very attractive. Who on eath is going to buy a magazine like that. I guess this is the another attempt at political correctness, look I am not black or Asian, I am not a lesbian, I am not disabled. I am just “normal” oooh look these magazines have discriminated against me, offended me and made me a victim becasue I am normal. Sorry I’ll keep my fantasies for the magazines and face reality in everyday.

By: Listener

Listener — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:03:47 +0000

It depends on the purpose of the magazine, as art, it should be pure fantasy, as commercial, and then it should be closer to reality.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:01:51 +0000

If magazines are going to continue using thin models, I would respectfully suggest they find someway to incorporate more realistic women into their layouts as well. Not only for the mental health of women in the world, but also for the designers’ profits. Because to be very bluntly honest, I and the women I know and with whom I work (in very high-paying jobs) have no interest in clothing that will be unflattering to our body-types. Which translates into no interest in 1) reading these magazines and 2) buying these clothes. Which could explain why women’s clothing stores are in such trouble today!

By: jens

jens — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:04:15 +0000

Half-not,

it might not be up for debate with you, but the 60 plus responses here seem to be debating the topic rather deeply.

i find a sporty, well trained and curved silhoutte attractive. just look at some of the athleths, especially swimmers. Skinny is not what comes to mind

By: viola

viola — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:47:55 +0000

I gotta ask: If the models pictured in magazines can be–what’s the term, photo-shopped?– what’s the point of firing them for being over the so-called ideal weight? Perhaps it’s different for the runway models, but magazine models could be chosen for their beauty rather than their emaciated bodies.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:38:36 +0000

Fantasy? no, thats what movie’s, video games and TV are for.
Fashion should depict real women, it is a form of advertisment that apeals to the mental self-image of an individual and should be showing how an everyday girl can feel and look good,

Show how to live your life, not how to kill yourself..

By: musonda

musonda — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:31:49 +0000

Have you ever heard that a man had been fired for being a little overweight no,am ashamed that such things still take place in this time and age.
women are always scrutinized about the way the look i personally am tired of it