Voices
KATE
BARTOLOTTA
HUFFINGTON
10.06.13
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How to Get Flat Abs,
Have Amazing Sex and Rule
the World in 8 Easy Steps
THE COVERS OF most men’s and
women’s magazines have similar
headlines: “Get Great Abs” and
“Have Amazing Sex.”
From the looks of it, these two
issues have been recycled over
and over (with some other stereotypically gender-relevant ar-
ticles thrown in) on every Men’s
Health, Maxim, Cosmopolitan
and Glamour cover since the
dawn of time. In fact, I’d bet that
if we could get a better translation of cave drawings, they
would read something like “Grok
get flat belly. Make girl Grok
moan with joy.”
And we keep buying them. We
keep buying this lie that these