ABSTRACT
Shallow Waters? “You’re writing about women’s fashion magazines? That’s sinking a bit low, isn’t it?”
I suppose, when you read headlines like “I Married a Man Who Thinks He’s a Zebra,” or “Men Confess Why They Think of Sex 206 Times a Day,” you can be forgiven for dismissing fashion magazines as trivial and shallowespecially if you go beyond a headline (“I Survived . . .”) only to learn that the actresses (referred to as “the girls”) playing in Charlie’s Angels “swam through a river so deep they cannot touch the ground.” The mind, as they say, “boggles”: at both the content and grammar of a sentence like this.
