Article: Get real, Seventeen; Your readers are

I try to stay up on things. I call STDs STIs. I use that new lavender-scented Tide. I don't get jealous when I see girls who are thinner or cuter than me (marriage has a lot to do with that). I'll throw myself off a cliff if my wistful smiles at seeing adolescent or college-age girls ever give way to envious glares.

So even though I'm approaching the twilight of my 20s, I like to think that I'm hanging on to an "I'm-OKyou're-OK" brand of cool.

But when I spotted the latest issue of Seventeen magazine while I was standing in the checkout line, I was horrified at the cover promoting the degradation contained therein. If the covers of Cosmo are concealed behind opaque plastic, issues of ...

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