We were asked to compare two articles, one from a men's magazine and one from a woman's magazine. I decided to compare GQ and Cosmopolitan.
Looking through both of theses magazines i couldn't find just one particular article. Some of the articles i focused on in Cosmo are "What He's Dying to Hear During a Date" and "9 Belly Shrinking Foods". These articles are not exactly focusing on the same thing but after you start reading them you can really see some similarities. Both of these articles are focused on how to make men find you more attractive. The first article focuses on what the authors believe that men want to hear on a date and the second article is focusing on becoming thinner and "shrinking" your belly to become more attractive for men.
In GQ I found articles titled, "How to Dump Her Like a Man" and another articled "Undateable". The first article talks about how to break up with a girl like a "man" would. This is a line from the article, * Forget about preserving your status as the sweetest guy on the planet. Don't rob her of the opportunity to hate your fing guts. It focuses on being a man and only thinking about yourself and your own feelings and being a "macho" man. The second article tells guys what not to wear and labels you "undateable" if you do.
Both of these magazines are focusing on the same type of articles. They talk about how to make yourself more appealing to the other sex and how to maintain a good relationship. This teach you how your "supposed" to act and what you should day during dates. Throughout both of these magazines the layout was very similar. They both had many articles on health and making sure to have a fit body for the opposite sex.
Looking through other men and women's magazines as well I think that all of them are very similar and try and guide you to be this unattainable sex appeal for the opposite sex.
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I found a lot of those same similarities in men and women's magazines. Though the specific content may have been different the main goal was to be good looking and how you could do that. I found it interesting how much people seem to care about appearance.
ReplyDeleteWere there differences in the actual writing styles?
ReplyDeleteMeredith, remember to respond to the class blog prompts too (there is one on BJD).
The only differences in the style of the writing was using more masculine words and references for GQ and more feminine words for Cosmo. The styles seemed to be the exact same but changed to get the attention of whichever sex it was targeted at.
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