I was reading the other day when a guy looked over and asked what I was reading…
“Ms. Magazine,” I said, “It’s really good.” All I got in return was a funny look. I think I tried to justify it, but nothing was going to convince him.

Ms. and B**** and other magazines like it our written off as “feminist propaganda” and they receive a slim readership because of it. Instead of being the often informative piece of journalism that they could be, they end up preaching to the choir. Unfortunately, the very people that should hear a lot of the things that are said in those magazines, men, are the last ones to ever think about picking them up.

Men, go to your local magazine rack and instead of sneaking around looking at inappropriate magazines, boldly pick up Ms. Magazine and give it a read through. I think you’ll find yourself learning things you never had a clue about, hear stories that will break your heart, and considering new perspectives you’d never imagined.

Of course, you’ll probably need some proof that you might read something worthwhile, so here are a few tidbits:

In September, the court ordered an end to discrimination against menstruating women, confronting a tradition in parts of Nepal of keeping women in cowsheds during their periods.

From Paradise Lost

That expensive blouse you’re wearing? It may have been sewn by a Filipina garment worker laboring in a factory owned by a Hong Kong mogul on a western Pacific island. The Northern Mariana Islands, a territory of the United States, offers the possibility of an American label — Made in Saipan (USA), Made in Northern Mariana Islands (USA), or simply Made in USA — to garment manufacturers, and throws in a unique exemption from U.S. minimum-wage and immigration laws.

From Too Many Women in College?

Although American women still struggle for parity in many arenas, we have outpaced men in at least one: undergraduate college education. Currently, 57.4 percent of bachelor’s degrees in the United States are earned by women, 42.6 percent by men. This is an almost exact reversal from 1970, when 56.9 percent of college graduates were males and 43.1 percent females.

There’s even a pocket guide from an expert in nonviolent confrontation tactics. An anti-harassment tool kit that really works.