jms944
I picked Cosmopolitan to write to and I addressed the whole magazine not just one article. And here is the link, it is the only one i could find to write to them
http://magazines.ivillage.co
To whom this may concern:
First off my name is Josh Stravinsky and I am a male. After reading your magazine (Cosmopolitan) for the first time in my life I am not all that surprised at what I saw. Although I find some of it somewhat over the edge. It seems to me like every ad in there is addressed to younger girls to make them either feel pretty or to help them “become fit”. Which in your magazine is depicted by all these size 1 models. I feel as all of this can be really impressionable on young women/teenagers. Makes them feel that they have to be either gorgeous or a size 1 to be deemed “wanted” by society. I feel that this is part of the problem with so many young girls either being bulimic or anorexic because they feel as if they have to look this way. When young women pick up one of these magazines this is all they say and they are at an age where they are still somewhat unsure of themselves and exactly who they are in life. And when they see this and read all these articles I feel that this affects them and their image of how they feel they need to be perceived by everyone when in fact this is not true. A girl does not need to be a size one or extremely fit to get by in America today and I think that that is the message you are trying to relay to them and this is one step in fixing the problem that many young women have. Because we all know that it is not achievable for everyone to be a size 1, so lets be more realistic. So it would be nice to possible see these articles and models addressed in the future and maybe we could help out many young american girls.
Sincerely,
Josh