Title: Gossipy and gloomy
Product review: Myrna Blyth claims that women's magazines conspire against women to make them victims. Well, they might, but her book does exactly the same thing: it tells women that they are victims of a conspiracy to make them victims!I do not accept that women are victims. Women are able to think for themselves. I trust in women's ability to think; the majority of women will not accept (let alone buy!) something that if they are unhappy with it. There is the possibility that there are large numbers of magazines giving women similar messages BECAUSE women want those messages.'Spin Sisters' is not a good book. Blyth aims to be scholarly, but her arguments are illogical, contradictory and incomplete. She tells some amusing anecdotes, and that is is the main virtue of her book. But it seems rather sad that she can only reinforce the "You are a victim!" message, instead of giving women something positive to consider - wouldn't that be far more valuable?
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