Huffington Magazine Issue 69 | Page 29

Voices KATE BARTOLOTTA HUFFINGTON 10.06.13 JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES 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