Poll: Do you read magazines specifically designed for your gender?

Question

examples:

women: Cosmo/Glamour/ Women's Health/Elle etc.

men: Maxim/ Men's Health

...or do you sometimes read magazines that are targetted towards the opposite s*x?

Answer 1

Yes, but the ones you mentioned hold no interest for me.  Sorry, but changing your eyeshadow won't bring you happiness in life.

ETA:  Really?  What colors did you use?

Answer 2

I read only Cosmo/Glamor/Women's Health/Elle. Helps me when my girlfriend is sick.

Answer 3

Not really.  I read computer related magazines, since that's related to my job (I read Linux mags although we don't use Linux at work, but I happen to be a fan).  I see these as being pretty gender neutral.

Answer 4

Here are my subscriptions: a little of both women's/gender neutral.  I think Maxim can be funny from time to time, but I wouldn't subscribe.

Us Weekly

Newsweek (to balance out the Us)

Women's Health

Outside

Glamour

Answer 5

i read a few womens mags..and mostly mangas...shoujo ( girl oriented) and shounen ( guy oriented)...

and i really like the bishounen ( pretty boy) and yaoi ( g*y ) ones...hehehehe!

Answer 6

No, I find women's magazines don't really have any articles about anything that interests me.  I read History Today, the BBC History magazine, and the Spectator.

Answer 7

I read "men's" magazines like Maxim, but sometimes I also read my fiancee's "women's" magazines like Cosmo.

My favorites are the advice columns and articles about love and s*x, it CRACKS ME UP the kind of bullshit that these writers are telling women about men and how to understand them. They're all flagrantly wrong but they don't even realize it and still get paid for churning out this campfire tinder once a month.

Answer 8

No, I generally prefer gender neutral magazines such as Newsweek, People, or National Geographic.

Answer 9

Well, I get "Parenting" magazine, which has a subtitle "Stuff that Matters to Moms" or something like that. Which is sexist and presumes that fathers don't care about parenting. I realize that in reality, it's mostly women who read these types of magazines, but let's not discourage men from doing so.

Answer 10

No occasionally I read a woman's mag.

Answer 11

I like Glamour, I'm kind of a fashion nut and it's basically Vouge-lite :-P and the Do's and Don't's crack me up (Am I the only one who has a compulsive need to immediately flip to the back upon purchase, only to be disappointed after reading the whole thing that I didn't "save it" ? lol)

Occasionally I pick up a copy of 'O' or Shape but I avoid the likes of Cosmo, the constant s*x tips are so redundant and well-known to anyone with 3 notches on their bedpost and a library card.  Besides, the way they treat relationships and s*x is on such a mass scale that it leaves no room for individual taste.  Every month is the same magazine with the same articles just written by different authors and with the words switched around.  From what I've seen, Maxim/FHM etc are the same way.

Answer 12

I actually used to read (and quite enjoy) Playboy magazine.  I was indifferent to the pictures in it; but I found the articles were always pretty good.  (Especially Asa Barber)

I never liked mags like Cosmo, etc.  They were always full of adverts and articles about stuff that I really never cared about.

Nowadays the magazines I subscribe to are the likes of National Geographic and Discover.  I'd still pick a Playboy over a Cosmo hands down, any day.

Answer 13

nope.

Answer 14

Gender-neutral magazines of choice: Maclean's, Us Weekly, my university's music magazine, Wired, a design magazine geared toward people from my province

Female-oriented magazines of choice: PINK, Ms.

Male-oriented magazines of choice: none

Answer 15

The magazines I buy are pretty much all unisex. Music magazines, for instance, and magazines about art and photography. I also read gaming magazines sometimes, and used to subscribe to Wizard (which is about comics) and Dragon (roleplaying). I'm bored to tears by "women's" magazines, as well as "men's".

Answer 16

I read Foreign Policy, City Journal, Men's Health (curiosity to see what men think), and science journals.

Answer 17

Men's Health.

Answer 18

No, I always read men's magazines growing up and now I mostly read books.

Answer 19

i mostly read ones targeted at women, but i will occasionally read maxim or men's health if they are around.

Answer 20

I read Pickmeup, take abrea which are for women. But my hubby and dad read these too. Mens mags are boring, they don't have anything interesting in so many men read womens.

Answer 21

REDBOOK

Answer 22

Sort of, I doubt too many women read electronics related magazines, given that all the reviewers and writers are almost exclusively male. The advertisements also seem to be geared towards men.

No on the second question. Reading the covers usually tells me enough.

Answer 23

I like to read Discover and Scientific American..... it always makes me sad to look and the things us women have in our section :(