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...India may have aired Sex and the City on TV and celebrated Cosmo girls on the newsstand, but it remains a distinctly unfriendly place for anyone who wants to live alone, particularly a woman. Single women making their way in the world are frowned upon in India's traditionally conservative society, and landlords often refuse to rent to them...
...onto garments, bedding, cushions, and soft leather sandals and belts sent from Cairo or Florence. These sheltered women, most of whom have never set foot outside of Siwa, have been delighted to see recordings of the Scervino Milan show and images of beautiful women posing on the covers of Cosmo and Vogue in outfits stitched by their hands in isolated Siwa. The young women who are all covered in modest garments giggled at the site of the models, but were not offended by their different dress code...
...people made fun of Freeze when they read it, but skunks aside it was obvious from the first that Sebastian got it—not only that, but she admitted right away that she didn’t care that much about fashion, that she preferred Sports Illustrated to Cosmo. She knew but she wasn’t knowing, and so, Freeze managed to be smart and earnest. Also funny! There was one part about a girl who thought the best way to handle a pushy boy was to “fake falling asleep when you become uncomfortable...
...island of tolerance and freedom for newcomers, and detractors claim that Meadows' focus on an unpopular war - the film is inter-spliced with Falklands' footage - together with anti-immigrant racism lends undue emphasis to the seamier side of the country's recent past. A Sunday Times review by critic Cosmo Landesman dismissed the film's portrayal of 1980s (predominantly) white-working class as "unconvincing," railing against a "fatuous" attempt to link the war in the Falklands with the one that Combo wants to fight back in England...
What is most distressing is that there is still such a huge market for this magazine. The fact that so many women continue to read Cosmo is surely indicative of how much progress women have left to be made. We’ve come a long way, baby, but apparently not quite far enough...