Men’s Health, Another Great Magazine Lost to Wokeness
Men’s Health the magazine went woke.
Contrast the magazine’s current sorry state with the greatness that it was 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, any man who subscribed knew this publication was time and money well spent.
I came upon it in a college library in 1996 and read it almost consistently for 20 additional years.
What did I learn?
Well, if I have an asymmetrical face then I should wear square-framed glasses.
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Aspirin works better when taken with caffeine. I learned what foods to eat to avoid cancer. NFL great Terry Bradshaw gave a compelling interview about how men can best handle clinical depression.
How does a person lose weight? Well, anyone on a diet should know that the stomach takes 20 minutes to tell the brain that it’s full.
Every month, Jimmy the Bartender dispensed advice on women and how to work your way out of awkward social situations or how to handle drama at work.
What few female writers the magazine had advised men how to better understand women and how they think.
I learned about multi-vitamins.
Best of all, the magazine remained free of politics or any kind of political biases.
Around 2015, however, I couldn’t see an ad for designer shoes without the Manhattan-based advertiser lecturing readers about gun control.
When I read many of the magazine articles, I felt déjà vu, as if I was reading a rerun of something I read 10 years prior. There were too many graphic articles about weird sexual positions and too few articles about, well, as the title of the magazine says, men’s health.
Other male readers picked up on the same problems and voiced their displeasure in letters to the editor. They also complained in the comments section of the magazine’s Facebook page — where I wrote that the magazine had somehow transformed into Cosmo for men.
I cancelled my subscription.
Imagine my disappointment when I stumbled upon a recent Men’s Health article that proved the magazine has gone a step further and caved to wokeness.
The article, Are You Gynosexual?, offered this pearl of wisdom:
“If someone is non-binary and attracted to women, ‘gynosexual’ may be a better fit for them than “straight” (which would typically be used by a man) or ‘lesbian” (which would typically be used by a woman).’”
As the article, written by a woman, went on to say, “the number of terms and identities under the LGBTQ+ umbrella is ever-growing, allowing more and more people to describe their sexuality with words that make sense to them.”
The article links to three other recent Men’s Health pieces (all authored by women):
• Are You Androsexual? Here’s What It Means, According to Experts
• What’s the Difference Between Pansexual and Bisexual?
• Here’s What Demisexual Means, and How to Tell if It Applies to You
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Whatever the hell any of that means, I don’t know. I don’t want to know, don’t need to know and sure as hell won’t Google this information. I’m sure many other sensible men are disgusted and long since cancelled their subscriptions.
Men’s Health was a once-great publication. The magazine catered to real men who cared about their health and sought to expand their knowledge base.
Now it’s just another casualty of wokeness.
What a shame.
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