In
honor of Women's History month and my six-year-old daughter, I would
like to cancel all my subscriptions. Like the magazine you send me in
place of Jane magazine, which while it was not perfect, was the
only women's magazine I really liked. Now, I know you aren't written
for six-year-olds, but see, my kid and I wanted to make a collage, so
we pulled you out and I watched my kid flip through your pages. Because
I try and talk about stuff with her instead of forbidding things, I
cringed as she leafed through page after page of beauty tips and diet
tips and skinny, mainly white teens cavorting with poor locals in
exotic places, and commented on how silly this and that was.
But
while she giggled at my wry commentary and agreed with me, I also saw
her eyes light up a little...
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