1.09.2008

The editorial depth of Maxim Magazine

While researching subjects for a newsletter targeting business travellers, I clicked over to Maxim Magazine's website to see what pressing issues today's professional males were grappling with.

Other than an obvious desire to press themselves against the bodies of the dewy young misses draped over improbable backgrounds, it seems as if today's professional male is frantic to know more about these following hot-button topics:
  • Why don't heroes give their sidekicks some spotlight?
  • 16 people who look like they absolutely reek
  • Pregnancy just makes these nine ladies hotter
And my personal favourite:
  • Why do so many movie aliens look like genitals?
I do not wish to deprive men of their tools for unwinding. Do not think so poorly of me. We are all entitled to our guilty pleasures. Let me stand at the magazine rack reading about Beyonce's new hair colour sans ironie, and I will leave you to your sexpots, gadgets and nerdgasms (their word, not mine).

And honestly, I liked the article about the stinky people - they even described exactly what each personality smelled like with a great deal of accuracy.

But for the love of Buddha, couldn't they throw in just one semi-serious article about goaltending or cufflinks? Even US magazine throws in a recipe or two - Debra Messing's to-die-for lime margaritas! - to make it seem less frivolous. Are we even trying, people? And while I'm at it, why don't men dress anymore?

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