Okay so I, for Christmas got a subscription to Seventeen Magazine. I used to hate it, and then i started buying it at the newsstand every month and I realized it is lots of fun to read. Except for the fact that the adjectives they use are painfully common place, like “pretty!” “flirty!” “hot!” and it gets old pretty quick. In comparison, there is also Teen Vogue. I used to like Teen Vogue until I realized how condescending it was. I mean, they don’t even try to be accessible. They had an article in an issue I read over the summer about how the key items for any girls wardrobe were “it” items. The suggestion that really infuriated me was buying a classic Chanel bag, in three colors. I was in shock, I realize I have never had some wildly lavish lifestyle, but what teen girl can actually afford not one or two Chanel bags, but three!

I was talking to my friends at summer camp about it last august, and we came to a very wise conclusion. Seventeen is for making fun of the outfits, and Teen Vogue is for making fun of the editor.