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Originally Posted by Virgin4Inch
I love it when people blame women's insecurities on fashion magazines because they are produced predominantly by women and read almost exclusively by women. So basically they are making themselves feel this way. Too funny.
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That is a rather sweeping statement that I can't fully agree with.
Allthough my ISP, as every morning, is unable to look up the IP addresses of half the Domains I am trying to access, giving me little more then a '... can't be found', so I can't verify too many publications at the momen, let's for the time being just look at Vogue for example.
Vogue (
Conde Nast Publications profile and media properties at MediaOwners.com) owned by Conde Nast (
Conde Nast Publications profile and media properties at MediaOwners.com) owned by Advance Publications, Inc. (
Conde Nast Publications profile and media properties at MediaOwners.com) and not a single woman in sight.
Samuel l. Newhouse Jr. is the CEO of Advance Publications, Inc.
Privately owned by Samuel "Si" Newhouse Jr. and his brother, Donald.
Charles H. Townsend is the CEO of Conde Nast Publications.
Agreed, there may possibly a woman at the helm of Vogue but I do not believe that policy descissions are made at the actual magazine itself. There is such undoubtedly such a thing as large scale top down influence on policy making and the recent phone hacking scandal in the UK I believe has given adequat proof of that (ie. Murdoch and his cronies).
Do watch that 'Perfect Vagina' programme, it is very good and shows you at least some of the trick of the trade when it comes to making women 'suitable' for publication (such as photoshopping breasts, improving the looks of the vulva, yes, they apparently need improving and some hilariously disgusting comments by some interviewed men).
Unfortunately, as I said, I have no way of checking out all the mags there are, besides, I probably haven't heard of even 5% of them but the Mediaowners website is rather enlightening, though not surprising.