Overheard on the plane back to Boston
Two twenty-something women sitting near each other decide to exchange magazines as they disembark: one has copies of Glamour and Jane, one has Us and something else I couldn’t catch. An older lady watches the transaction curiously.
Older Lady: “Excuse me, this Jane magazine—who writes it?”
Jane Giver: “Jane… it’s sort of a neo-feminist magazine. It doesn’t have, like, bad body image pictures. It still has how to put your makeup on and stuff, but it’s like, ‘How To Not Look Like a Whore When You Put Your Makeup On.’”
Jane Receiver: “I couldn’t have put it better myself.”
Me: “Please, kill me now.”
July 19th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Well, if it makes you feel any better, word on the street is that there may not be beauty tips for the whorephobic much longer…