Talk:Cosmopolitan (magazine)

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[edit] Cosmopolitan Men?!

The article claims that a spin-off called Cosmopolitan Men exists. I could find no evidence for this whatsoever, and the only publication I could find to carry this name has been a calendar that came with Cosmo. Is this thing in the making or something? --Tomsintown 00:04, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reader's Response

Not in the spirit of Wikipedia but I think the "Reader's Response" section needs to be eliminated. The section entirely covers one letter about (presumably) one article. Lotsofissues 17:37, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comsopolitan?

What's it with the spelling Comso and Comsopolitan appearing in the subtitle and caption? Is the magazine really nicknamed that way, or is it a typo? Is it a reference to the Komsomol, Communist Union of Youth? mtreinik 09:52, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I don't think it's a typo -- I've heard the magazine referred to by that nickname. jdb ❋ (talk) 02:04, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

it is not a typo. in the midwest US (that I can verify for certain) it is commonly called "cosmo"

Yes, Cosmo is a nickname, not CoMSo though.

[edit] Sex

"The magazine features mostly feminine topics such as sex, makeup, hair tips, etc."

Sex is a feminine topic?

Can someone please fix that line? I don't want to presume to know what the author was getting at. The word feminine in that context is unsuitable in any case...unless someone can explain to me how a topic acquires a gender.


parhaps sex from a feminie perspective

Why is the word "sex" always the biggest words on the cover of almost every single issue? Women do not think about sex every second of the day. There are other issues women are concerned with.

[edit] Cosmo is a prurient magazine?

Why in recent years became Cosmo a so-called "prurient magazine"?

[edit] The Cats' Head Logo

A long time ago there used to be a cat's silouette on the magazine ,in the letter N in the lower corner,and in the end of each article used to appear the silouette of this cat's head.What happen with thet logo and why is no longer in there.

The cats head, which was a response to the Playboy Bunny, disappeared when Helen Gurley Brown ceased being the editor of the US edition.

[edit] Advertising

Cosmopolitan is historically important for its propaganda development role.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:22, 13 February 2008 (UTC)