Teen Magazine ("Gross")
This idea of the "marketable feminist" is really interesting to me. I took a look at the Teen Magazine website in order to better understand their stance on important issues for young woman who look to these glossy pages for answers. I chose this magazine because they are very mainstream and do impact the ideas that young woman have about the world and themselves. What I found didn't so much surprise me (I was unfortunately ready for the flood of heteronormative, white supremest, superficial and consumer based answers) but did upset me.
I found advice to girls to be the most upsetting. Some of the things I read included bleaching or shaving your unsightly body hair from your arms and stomach. Tips on how teenage girls can stay fashionable by wearing the "correct shoes" with the right pants. And don't forget "How to maintain the long and lush lashes you desire."
I do recognize that this magazine isn't claiming itself to be a feminist magazine but it is imposing false, superficial, and patriarchal ideas about being a woman, on young vulnerable minds. That to me is very closely related to "girl power" feminism and is just as decremental if not more decremental to young woman.
It is this feminists opinion that its things like these that operate both under and in favor of patriarchal powers. "Man Is there no hope?!"