This article rocks, dude!!!! I-like-totally related.
--EN
12/01 |
Somebody has to lay the .1% of chicks who like really femmy barely straight men and that's your average Maxim Man right there. Perhaps they can sell "lets butch it up" kits next. Personally, I blame shows like Friends for the current War on Manliness. The weak and useless baby boomers who run the media fear the penis, and they are doing everything possible to portray any real man with balls as abnormal.
--hype
11/26 |
Yeah, Maxim sucks and all, but where's your outrage for Cosmopolitan and Vogue? Where's your outrage for the fashion, makeup, hair and feminine hygiene product industries that basically create that crap--makeup tips, reviews of schmaltzy romantic comedies, and advice on how to marry a millionare? Aren't they responsible for just as much meaningless spending and reinforcement of ridiculous gender stereotypes? Don't they feature the same types of pictures of half-naked-you-will-never-be-good-enough-for-this guys?
None of that is to say that Maxim doesn't create just as much collateral damage in the war of the sexes. It does. But I'm a smart guy who reads (and when I say reads, like below, I mean look at the pretty pictures, skim the rest, wipe and flush) Maxim, and I know smart girls who read Cosmo in much the same way. It's fun, it's dumb, it's worth a look and a laugh when the novel you're reading hits the boring part.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that while I understand that being over-the-top in your righteous indignation was a big part of your angle, there's a lot to be said for a deep breath and a step back before you press that "send" button.
--dmj
11/26 |
I guess we have come a long way from over 40 years ago with "Man-Tan" and crew cuts turning green after we peroxided our entire heads during Easter Week at Newport or Laguna Beach. I gotta admit I would not want to be 20 today with all the temptations. Then I was introduced to the world of wild women and booze in Bavaria where I was in the army for 30 months. Playboy was very hot, a far cry from stag movies and Fredericks of Hollywood ads. Then only pirates and a few beatniks wore earrings. I have two nephews and they live in a far different world!
--MBD
11/25 |
I would also like to say I am utterly shocked (where's my sarcasm emoticon?) that the advertising/marketing respondent below doesn't know how to spell "insiteful" (sic).
Yours in christ,
--ej
11/25 |
God bless you.
I'm heading out currently to buy a case of said product, then drinking it in some misguided, messianic, martyred moment of gender-bending honesty.
In best regards,
--ej
11/25 |
Awesome article. This comes from a cultural anthrolpology prof who (yikes!) reads Maxim. Kids, in the noble yet pretentious pursuit of hegemony, never lose your ability to laugh, and to laugh at what you are laughing at. Life's too short to always be crabbing about the hive- as long as you are well-versed in its wretched existence, feel free to participate with wild abandon. The best of luck to all.
--CEW
11/24 |
oh my god, this article is fuckin mint!!!!!!!!! it is funny, and true and remarkably well organized in a standard essay sense. i cracked up and what i have to say is bravo, you should write more, and sell it along with that Maxim masturbation-in-a-sock gadget, that way people will read it.
--AD
11/23 |
Try and focus on that lean, atheletic style. Fitzgerald.
Descriptors made by dashes should be thrown in for emphasis. That said, they should not be used every third line. What you have is an article that's thick but doesn't really permit itself any insights. It's just too much damn work to wade through it. One gets the same essence reading the first and last paragraphs, with much less headache.
--AM
11/22 |
Capitalism you moron. Where you been living.. Afghanistan?
It is so easy to chew the fat.
Bite off something more profound will ya.
--sb
11/22 |
Pa-lease. Stop with the over-the-top, freshman-english-major, not-very-funny-anyway, I-feel-righteous, adjectives. I didn't even read to your point. If you have one.
--rja
11/22 |
Hey Wenie, The only thing cool in life is Babes,Beer, and Gadgets.
--JV
11/21 |
frickin hysterical ... get in touch with yer creative side while you actually don't ... keep it comin ...
--ydb
11/21 |
Right around the part with Red Bull, Xbox and porn this article officially made too many cultural references. The good angle for this kind of article is how it ties into our personal lives seeing this shit around, not trying to be some too-wry social analysis--that's pointless. Anyway, I loved this article and it was long overdue. Much like Britney Spears effectively getting a boner out of the black trenchcoat crowd, Maxim somehow is subscribed to by hipsters who should be ashamed, if only on generic punk principle ALONE. The magazine is nauseating and innocuous in a Man Show way--too boring to actually be offensive. I hate Maxim. And men SHOULDNT care about fashion. They should wear black eyeliner or a dress once every third month, in a Bowie like show of lurid weirdness, but the rest of the time they should be writing political treaties or playing drums and video games and arguing politics and stuff. Fashion? Yech.
--qvc
11/21 |
Exactly what I was thinking...but did not have the talent to write!
--RL
11/21 |
Awesome article. Very refreshing. Brillant and fun. Vibrantly hysterical. One of the best I've seen on Nerve and I have been reading this site for a while. Who is this guy? Use him again! Please Please Please.....and do you have his picture?
--SB
11/21 |
being in advertising and hating it because i have to market things to ignorant people who don't need this stuff...i can completely relate. very witty, insiteful article.
kudos.
--LKF
11/21 |
Capitalism SUCKS!!!!!!!!
--KaT
11/21 |
Executive Summary:
Maxium Mag- Nice pictures, use the rest for toilet paper. 'nuff said.
--EGM
11/21 |
MAXIM is a trashy mag for wannabees/neverwillbees, but I think you're taking a hair color ad too seriously.
--mw
11/21 |
Awesomely chic critique!
--js
11/21 |
send feedback on "Babes, Beer, Gadgets, Hair Color"
back to "Babes, Beer, Gadgets, Hair Color" |
