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FeedNo Cosmo, Please
This letter is in response to Myca in Atlanta [Vol. 18 #4] and her thoughts on making CURVE “a Cosmo for Lesbians.” What is that about? This magazine has a lot to offer lesbians today. The last thing it needs to become is a skinny, fashion, barf-till-you-lose-those-pounds magazine. Granted, some women are femme and like that kind of stuff, but to completely change this magazine to focus on just them is crazy. CURVE has made sure to cover everything that is important to us and beyond—from the workplace to politics, from families to partners-wives and their rights, from health and fitness to what’s happening around town and the world. I don’t see a need to change it.
— Cindy Zimmermann, Bloomington, Ill.
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Reader Comments:
I must say that Cosmo had some of the best material. Remember the article: Can this Marriage be Saved? It was a great article. I loved reading the marriage advice. I also enjoyed the Bedside Astrologer before it became so straight a few years back! I bought every January issue for my yearly astrological forecast. My girlfriend and I would read it together ritually. I would love to see both of these in a lesbian magazine.
Well, that my be true but Cosmo also has a lot of articles and MANY, MANY pictures of these crazy, skinny, alomst starved looking madels that just send the wrong ideas about women and what they "should" look like. You have these young girls looking at this stuff and taking it in like it was the "Gospel or something. They just have to "be" that way, wear those god ugly fashions and believe every word they read. They twist and warp the minds of so many women with this type of thinking.
The message is alway the same. Skinny is in and anything else just isn't going to cut it. And what about those clothes?? Sorry but I'm not Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada." I can't afford that stuff. Granted, I'm a soft butch..but still and all, those clothes are so out of reach for so many, it's insane. There's alot of women who'd sell their souls for the fashion, the body and....you tel me.
Just becasue they throw in a few "actually" articles, doesn't make it something Iwant to see in CURVE. And lets face it, I don't need to take a test to see if I'm compatable with some one or to see if my relationship is in danger of ending. If I can't see these things for myself, well then, I'm in alot of trouble.
I'm glad you found something to like in that magazine. But may I suggest that you read it at the local bookstore or buy it for home and the rest of us will keep CURVE just the way "she" is, thank you very much.
Curve to me is wonderful the way it is... there's no problem in expanding though. why cant everyone be happy i know its easier said than done, and although i dont read cosmo im sure there are some things in there that some people like and maybe it can be twisted a bit to fit curve magazine and it's readers. Here women, especially lesbian women can get info and news and what-not and not feel like an outcast wherever they are especially if homosexuality is looked down upon. so why cant people throw in ideas to expand it will be the lesbian magazine with every topic any lesbian could think to talk about!
Re the first post, the column "Can this Marriage be Saved?" is from Ladies Home Journal, not Cosmo.
I personally love Cosmo and think that it's great for what it is. However, I also think that Curve is fine as is. The world doesn't need another Cosmo, even if it is for lesbians. And Curve definitely doesn't need to change.
Look, I would like Curve to have articles about "how to get your woman" and such things. I like Cosmo because of that, not because of fashion or skinny models. When I read Cosmo, I feel empowered and like I could get any guy I wanted and keep him happy. As a lesbian, I don't know how to do that. That would be my only change to Curve.