As for the readings, I personally enjoyed the Teen Mags: How To Get A Guy, Drop 20 Pounds, and Lose Your Self-Esteem article more. The Klaus Barbi one was entertaining but I think it's more interesting that not only did a lot of girls play with Barbis when they were young, but now instead of playing with some shapely doll, they read fashion magazines with actual shapely women...with living dolls. And these magazines influence the mentalities of women so much more than a Barbi does. I think all this applies to men as well. I myself like to read magazines like Rolling Stone. But why? It's a magazine about music, yet you don't hear actual music from the magazine. It's because idolizing people like that is fun in a sense. Seeing and reading about these people allows me to almost live vicariously through them. I'll never be a rock star and have the perfect life, but I can imagine. And i think that's what fashion magazines do in a sense to women: create in their heads a figure to idolize, and consequently a figure that they want to be. Maybe i'm way off base. anyone?