FrenchDelicacy
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I don't like that it's the feminism issue and they styled her with a pantsuit
Fashion magazines trying to talk to people about feminism always makes me laugh. In my experience, financial education, awareness and independence is one of the most important real-life elements for anyone - man or woman - who wishes to interact with the world on more equal terms.
Fashion magazines usually devote one cursory page to the topic of credit cards, and then get on with the job of filling every other page with messages about why you need to spend your month's salary on an item of clothing that will be rendered unfashionable after a few months. Because that's what us girls do! And if it's a particularly boring yet expensive item, you're told it's an "investment piece". It's almost like wearing your pension on your back!
I might as well look for philosophy tips from a plastic surgeon's brochure.
I do enjoy magazines as the glorified catalogues that they are, and if they wish to profile all aspect of a woman's life on their pages, fair enough, but I don't find myself ever forgetting the context in which those articles appear.