Quote, unquote: Why can't women's magazines respect readers the way men's magazines do?

The thing that's always bugged me about women's magazines -- not all, but 80 percent -- is their prevailing editorial attitude toward readers, women, is that they're imperfect specimens in need of fixing or are so emotionally fragile they require constant celebration. Advertisers, then, are the white knights riding in with the fix or pat on the head -- hair product, lipstick, weight-loss