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Daddy-in-chief

Love / Shove blog post by Kjerstin Johnson, December 15, 2008 - 4:16pm; tagged gender roles, magazines, parenting, women's magazines.

Nick Friedman is the first male editor of Scholastic’s Parent & Child, a magazine whose readership is 85% women the New York Times reports. Apparently, most magazines are run by the gender they intend to cater to (BTW, non-bitches need not apply!), and while homemaker mags have been run by dudes before (Good Housekeeping was founded by Clark W. Bryan in 1885), there seems to be a “mommy club” that men remain outside of.

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Beauty Secrets

The New Cosmetic Cover-up

Article by Jacqueline Houton, Illustrated by Taryn Egan, appeared in issue Loud; published in 2008; filed under Consumer culture; tagged advertising, beauty, beauty products, corporate ickiness, Cosmetic Ingrediet Review, cosmetics, FDA, health, women's magazines.

From the pages of every mainstream women’s magazine—between the list of 43 things every confident woman knows and the six-week ab-blasting plan—the ads beckon. Conditioners enriched with vitamins vow to make each strand 10 times stronger. Undereye concealers containing white-tea antioxidants claim to combat the cellular damage that deepens those oh-so-unsightly dark circles. Pricey foundations promise to rejuvenate the face at the molecular level with the new Pro-Xylane compound, carefully extracted from Eastern European beech trees.

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