Cosmo's Bad Girl Bible

Heitman, Bethany. "Cosmo's Bad Girl Bible." Cosmopolitan Nov 2009: 178-79. Print.

This article gives just one example of the very sexual articles found in Cosmopolitan magazines. The authors give women many different ways to be "bad" successfully. For example, she teaches the reader how to lie well, how to date multiple men at once and how to undress guys with your eyes. The authors uses advice from experts, such as body language experts, communication consultants and dating management sites. The audience of this article is definitely women, since Cosmopolitan is a magazine for women. Article is written in an "in your face" kind of way, making it seem like it is okay to be "bad". The authors gives ways for women to feel powerful and noticed at parties by being obnoxious and crude. This article will work well to show how Cosmopolitan makes women who read it think they need to change their personality, their morals and how they look in order to get attention from guys and other people around them. In reality, it just ends up making women feel self consious and lowers their self esteem because these tips don't actually work and they will never look or feel like the women in the Cosmo magazines. Along with reading the article, women are affected by the pictures going along with the article.