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What can we say about Cosmopolitan today that wasn’t true about Cosmopolitan in the past? According to the very first commercial that promoted the magazine brand in the UK, not much. The 1972 commercial, unearthed by Copyranter, features a number of women talking to men. Specifically, the men are asking women how they managed to pull off things like affording nice [...]
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Did you know that there’s a Turkish version of Cosmopolitan magazine? Yup, it’s true! So basically, now the women of Turkey have their own version of the magazine that glorifies every negative female stereotype under the guise of fe... Read Post

Last night, celebrities attended Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Fun Fearless Males Of 2011 event, celebrating all the men (and one woman) who the the magazine considered to be the most fun and fearless people of the year. Can’t say I was s... Read Post

A recently unearthed ad promoting the 1972 launch of Cosmopolitan Magazine shows it to have been about pretty much the same things it's about now. Does that mean it was/is progressive for its time, regressive for our time, or both? ... Read Post