Jessica: The link points to the older Feministing post and not the NYT article. Internet Möbius Strip!

I didn't read Jane that much and pretty much, once I found this website I stopped even flipping through it. Though I will tell you one of the worst "womens" magazines I've ever seen: Lucky. It's nothing but fashion, if that's what your'e into more power to you but I had a co-worker who kept getting issues that she wasn't even subscribed to and sometimes we'd look through them and go "WTF" it's like a big book of advertising trying to pretend it's not.

At least Lucky is honest about who they are: "A Magazine About Shopping".

I like Lucky, and I find it the least offensive of the fashion mags. It assumes that the reader is not a moron, and it knows that we read other magazines to learn about politics, current events, health, and all that stuff. I find the "serious" articles in fashion magazines pretty stupid and condescending, and I appreciate that Lucky realizes that I'm not reading the magazine to be enlightened about serious topics. It acknowledges that money exists, which is more than you can say for magazines like Vogue, which often seem to imply that people who own $5,000 handbags are just more tasteful and refined than the rest of us. It has a fun, distinctive voice, and several former Sassy staffers write for Lucky, including the Editor in Chief.

I'm not claiming that it's feminist, and it's clearly hugely in thrall to consumerism. But it's a fun, silly magazine that is cool for people who like clothes, and that makes it a lot less problematic than its competitors, I think.