This one's for the ladies...

[cyrano]

Girls, if you need to drive those big scary cars like your husbands do, just remember what Goodyear told us years ago.
Polyglas means more than good mileage. It also means your delicate feminine brains won't be overwhelmed by the stress of road signs, parts of your own car, sudden camera zooms and a tense emphatic soundtrack; we think the odds are pretty good you won't crash and kill somebody if your husband for some reason allows you to drive. (Which, if he didn't have a gigantic brain tumor, he'd have the sense to forbid. Girls driving. Bah! Next they'll want to *vote*.)

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[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I remember when I was first hitting my teenage years, I picked up a few of the magazines other girls my age were reading and couldn't for the life of me figure out what they saw in them - as near as I could tell, their entire purpose was to sell various overpriced products (with, admittedly, the occasional interesting article slipped in between). When I first read that essay in college it helped me understand the economics behind it. I still have yet to find a women's magazine worth reading, though - even Playgirl, the female-oriented counterpart to a magazine famous for the quality of its articles, seems to be entirely focused on love quizzes and other crap. In between, y'know, the pictures of naked dudes. ;)