Why do women read those trashy magazines like Cosmopolitan, Dolly, Womans Day, Cleo, O Magazine, etc?
There is a whole buttload of generalization going on in this question. For one, not all women read those magazines. I don’t, unless I’m sitting around the doctor’s office. For another, the content and audience of them are pretty diverse. I’m not familiar with Dolly or Cleo, but the others have very different aims. Cosmopolitan aims at a younger, single woman and a lot of it does seem very shallow to me. Woman’s Day is very much oriented toward women with families, crammed with recipes and self-help articles on diet and finances and medical stuff. O Magazine — that aims for a wider female audience, but has a lot of articles on self-help and uplift. They all have celebrities on the cover because magazines practically will not sell without them, but the focus is not usually who’s with who this red-hot minute. That’s more Us and People and magazines I don’t remember the names of because I *don’t* care. Why women might read them? I think women are busier than ever before, and I suspect eve
