The unmitigated disaster of feminist propaganda

Published May 27, 2020 7:17pm ET



I love a good whistleblower. A fantastic new article at the Daily Signal implodes the lies women have been told for decades in the media — specifically, in women’s magazines. Sue Ellen Browder, a former longtime Cosmopolitan writer, admits she spent 20 years pulling the wool over women’s eyes by telling them marriage and babies hold women back and that sexual liberation is the true path to fulfillment.

When we think of left-wing propaganda, most of us think mainly of television and radio. But another arm of media bias is the publishing industry: Dozens of women’s magazines comprise a significant part of the liberal establishment. In 2005, another whistleblower, former Ladies’ Home Journal editor Myrna Blyth, exposed this in Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of America. “Women’s magazines, a nearly $7 billion-a-year business, are based on telling women their lives are too tough for them to handle and they should feel very sorry for themselves. This distorted vision of your life is absolutely crazy.”

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