Put the Cosmopolitan Magazine Down

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Put the Cosmo Down

One of the most ubiquitous trends in publications nowadays is the self-improvement magazine for women. These magazines’ initiative is to tell you how to dress, converse, love and manage your time like a woman who “has it all together”. While some of these tips may be helpful to readers, the implied standard that they set for their audience is almost always ridiculously out of reach.

Such women’s magazines as Cosmopolitan and Elle are notorious for dictating the way a woman should act and behave in social contexts in order to appeal to men. The standards set up by these publications create an ideology of the perfect woman that all the readers should strive to be. But these unfair standards of perfection are far more damaging to these women than they realize. They create expectations of a woman that are unobtainable without airbrushing, a six-digit salary or the perfect bone structure.

Their devoted customers purchase these magazines because the content offered is usually fresh, trendy and strikes a chord with the modern woman. But is the modern woman ...

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