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Title: A Question For The Guys
Post by: -Makenshi- on September 4, 2005, 06:26:21 PM
Ok, I know it's the vast majority of the people on this site but hey ¬¬.

Anywho, I was just wandering how many of you read womens magazines, and I don't mean for the chance to see clothing pictures, make-up or anything, I'm talking about the (less female orientated) articles, such as the one I've recently read in my mother's 'Real' magazine relating to teenage sexual activity and both the teenagers' and parents' views on it.

The reason I ask is simply that (as you may have guessed) I do, and I do it because I have never found interesting articles about life etc. in any male orientated magazine, and that's generally what I want to read about (life that is, not the things you find in the likes of 'Nuts'). Although I tend to do this when no one's around as I feel embarrassed about reading a women's magazine.

Anyway, just curious as to how many of you do and why.

~MTWC
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Archon_Yggdrisil on September 4, 2005, 06:35:11 PM
When I get bored on the toilet, any reading material that is on hand is fair game. Some of the articles are ok. Believe it or not, I like interior decorating. Not flower throw pillows, and pastel wall colors, but interesting types of furniture. I'm a conniseur, from coffee to couches.

The vast majority of it is junk (at least that's my Id talking, I really don't care about how to hide my 19yr old wrinkles). Every once in a while I'll find the "How to please your man" articles, and check them for truth. About half work, if any women are reading this.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Sheepz on September 4, 2005, 06:36:14 PM
I haven't read any personally, nor have I really considered it. I'm not a big fan of any sort of magazines, really, I'd rather read a full on book. For articles about life, I'd get a job. I learned a lot of things shifting boxes in a warehouse/loading wagons/travelling around in the cabs with the drivers. It's a great learning experience, which IMO is better than simply reading about it.

But each to his own, dude.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: -Makenshi- on September 4, 2005, 06:47:21 PM
Well, I'm not much of a magazine reader either, it's just somethign I do every now and again when bored, usually I fidn somethign interesting though (my mother and I have similar interests and she isn't one for the more femenine magazines).

Problem about life being a good teacher for me is I'm pretty shy and have various other personality traits that make it difficult, although I do agree it's a very good teacher you also get a differetn angle from the written word.

~MTWC
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Wurzelmaniac on September 4, 2005, 07:15:34 PM
We don't tend to have many lying around. Sometimes there's decent articles but I only pick them up when I'm really bored in a waiting room.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Sgt. Sota on September 4, 2005, 08:17:25 PM
Usually, I don't read magazines at all, the web is faster and much more convenient, plus you can read multipe accounts if you think it's biased or stupid for some reason. It's one of the reasons I don't have a subscription to Nintendo Power anymore, IGN and Gamespot update more often and both have videos. Only reason to get NP at this point is the freebies (which I admit can be pretty nice).
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Archon_Yggdrisil on September 4, 2005, 08:34:31 PM
Like I said. Toilet reading.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Captain Leonidas on September 4, 2005, 09:25:53 PM
I only pick them up when I'm really bored in a waiting room.

idem here. I find it amusing to read the gossip corner, 'all about men' and associated topics, how to have great sex with hot guys etc etc. I like reading the cooking corner too. Its always nice to discover a food that is tryable once in a while.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Chillin Mickey on September 5, 2005, 01:22:31 AM
We don't tend to have many lying around. Sometimes there's decent articles but I only pick them up when I'm really bored in a waiting room.

Hopefully not in hospital waiting rooms.  Hell, I have a hard time sitting in those chairs.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Draza on September 5, 2005, 04:13:11 AM
Not much of a person to read magazines these days. I do read "body and soul" sometimes (if some article catches my eye) from the newspaper, but never anything consistent. I like the internet for reading articles and such, as I don't exactly visit my library too often
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Wargamer on September 5, 2005, 04:49:32 AM
If they are left lying around, and there's an interesting article, then I'll read it. Frankly, the reason I don't buy "mens" Magazines is they are either about cars, football, soft-porn or an amazingly funny story of how someone got his dick in a bottle.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Just Charles on September 5, 2005, 05:09:50 AM
Yes, I do.

Honestly, I read women's magazines, and I tend to enjoy it too. I'm a hobby psychologist, and everything that helps me enhancing my gyno-empathetic  intuition is more than welcome, e.g. "Le deuxieme sexe" written by Simone de Beauvoir.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Razyus on September 5, 2005, 05:16:29 AM
Yeah. I mean why not? For a start it is often highly amusing, but they also have some of the best T.V. pages in magazines. I do find them seriously interesting.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Unreal Tiger on September 5, 2005, 09:28:59 AM
I'm with Archon Yggdrisil for this one, womens magazines are definately toilet reading material, same with newspapers for me. The articles can be interesting sometimes, I like to read the cooking section maself and have tried some of the recipes that they put in there a couple of times. However the majority of it is, much like mens magazines, full of useless crap only with womens magazines this useless crap tends to be about the lastest celebrity gossip or how yet another woman got screwed over in a relationship.

Myself, I encourage other people to read anything really and womens magazines to provide alot of usefull and interesting information at the expense of having to wade through pages of which celebrity was busted for doing such and such drugs or how some person or another survived another amazing ordeal. Especially look at the recipes, alot of them are quite good!
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Pvt. Dancer on September 5, 2005, 11:56:18 AM
Toilet reading, or at the swimming pool ;D WITH girls ;)
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Helmed Horror on September 6, 2005, 11:03:11 AM
I do, mainly because I am usually bored and looking for something to read. I quite like getting magazines myself (why I like my money to fly out my wallet, I don't know) and, while I don't actively seek out to read women's magazines, I like to read what I can. I guess this is my subconcious telling me to read more books, but hey.

I tend to read more women's lifestyle magazones (the ones where they people send in the stories) and the ones about celebraties, as those are the ones we have around here. While quite a considerable amount is filler there may be somethign interesting in there occasionally. *shrug*
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Ollieb on September 6, 2005, 11:23:09 AM
When I was younger and single I'll admit I did.  It was a great way to pick up chicks.  You read their magazines and they saw (or at least thought) you were concerned about women's issues when you could work into a conversation "I read in Cosmo that......"

Got laid on more than one occasion for it.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Brother Asreus on September 6, 2005, 11:26:14 AM
I usually read my wife's cosmo on the can too. I find it funny when you have articles like "How to please your man" We asked 50 women. LMAO Women know what men want...LOL Other than that I read a few tech magazines and political magazines like Macleans here in Canada.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Dux Aurelius Elysius on September 6, 2005, 02:18:31 PM
Once in a blue moon I read my horoscope.  Does that count?
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Brillmongo on September 7, 2005, 11:14:15 AM
I have never, ever, seen an article in any women's magazine that has published an interesting article about anything at all.

The only thing that makes me pick one up when I'm bored is to laugh at the dumb sh*ts who worry about fluctuations in their period cycle.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Kage2020 on September 7, 2005, 06:41:13 PM
Anywho, I was just wandering how many of you read womens magazines, and I don't mean for the chance to see clothing pictures, make-up or anything...
To answer this original post, I do!  When I was younger it was because all, or most, of my friends were women and they just left them hanging around.  It's a "boy condition" in some regards, or so I have heard!

Anyway, now I tend to read them with my girlfriend.  We'll go to Barnes & Noble and sit down with a stack of 'boy' and 'girl' magazines and read the articles together.  If nothing else it's hilarioius to be able to share the kind of limited scope article that tends to show up in the articles of the magazines of either sex... :D

Kage

Edit: Just noted the quotation glitch.  Darned typos! ;)
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: magikot of alaitoc on September 8, 2005, 12:11:06 AM
I do. I work at a grocery store as a cashier (amongst other positions I hold there), so when I am waiting around on a slow night since I usually close the store, I flip through seeing if there are any interesting articles. Sometimes there are, sometimes there aren't. I do jot down the recipes since I love to cook, both for myself and my girlfriend. Also I find it quite comical how they keep printing the same "10 sex secrets that will drive him wild!" articles. Like it was said above, only about half work. Or I laugh at how incredibly inaccurate the horoscopes are and like to compare the horoscopes in all the women's magazines looking for two to match up, but alas, they never do. But yes, sometimes there are actually interesting articles or studies which I read, I read the cooking section, and just browse the rest.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Twistedstorytella (the 3rd) on September 8, 2005, 08:15:25 AM
I didnt understand what you were asking that well but i got the gist of it (well i hope anyway) and i like to read the REALLY girly mags mostly just to see the problems page, its intresting to read and it helps me understand hopes, fears and other things about girls that you dont really hear about...
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Guildmage Aech on September 10, 2005, 01:55:56 PM
Not wanting to over sterotype but in my limited experience most of these magazines tend to have two types of articles; how all men are barstards and how to get men....

Cooking and horoscopes aside of course...
Incidently, does anyone find it amazingly comical that people actually believe horoscopes? Not just reading ones in magazines but phoning in to radio for it (BBC Radio Two norally has a session about 4:45). The future for a twelth of the population all at once! Everyone born in may' now is a good time to sell your house...
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: Commissar Warbird on September 11, 2005, 05:35:22 AM
I read my wifes mags when i am drunk or my pain killers are taking effect. I have read them when i was not under the influance of anything and they were boring compared to when i was stoned/drunk. Somtimes it gets on her nerves when i laugh at the sheer stupididty of some of the stuff in there or when i re-write them so they are better.
Title: Re: A Question For The Guys
Post by: AnonGone on September 11, 2005, 07:37:13 PM
I remember, according to a girly magazine, my perfect Guy would be from Spain, shame I'm not gay, that could have been usefull.

However I live in hope Nuts or similar will have a "Find you're perfect woman", untill then I'll make do with the pictures/stories of people hurting themselves etc.