Over on the F-word they were wondering if this weeks offering of the Observer Woman magazine would be any better than its usual poor standard. Much as always, we are back to clothes, food and skincream advertisements. For why the magazine is a complete shocker click here.
On the cover of today's edition was the promising proclamation that they would reveal the 'truth about female stereotypes' - but to be honest I wasn't terribly impressed. Whilst there were instances of 'cliche busting' there was no analysis of why these kinds of steretypes exist and how they become ingrained, so I consider it a pretty pointless exercise.
The worst part in my opinion was the 'Sex, Shoes, Money and Men - what do women want?' section where the presumption was obviously that all these women were heterosexual and the questions thrown at them included 'how many shoes do you own?' and 'who helps you?'. You can bet good money that men never get asked either of those questions.
The abortion ban article looks a bit more promising, so I'm off to read that. Hopefully I won't get distracted by the hard-hitting editorial on the first page waxing lyrical on the 'Return of the Scrunchy'.
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