Should we judge a woman by the cover of her magazine?
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Should we judge a woman by the cover of her magazine? Upon first glance of that question I find it extremely challenging not to dismiss it abruptly with a definite "no". Women's magazines often portray the stereotypical image of a seemingly beautiful yet some-what painfully thin woman on the front surrounded by captions on how to improve your life. I have personally noticed that nearly every leading issue of the typical 'beauty magazines' contains at least one story of a very non-controversial women's issue such as anorexia. How many people do you know who are pro-anorexia? On one page they write of one girls battle against it yet on the next they discuss problems in what you thought was a normal diet. It is often quite questionable as to how these magazines even appeal to women. The cover of January's Cosmopolitan is smothered with the words 'sex', 'love' and 'desires'. Cosmopolitan...

