Should we judge a woman by the cover of her magazine?

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Should we judge a woman by the cover of her magazine?

If we judge a woman by the cover of her magazine, then won't all women be the same? The number of women outnumber the amount of published magazine by thousands, yet the same thousands of women flock to more or less the same magazines. Does that mean there are only, say, four of five types of women?

But if we didn't consider that point, what can we learn of a person from a magazine cover?

On the cover of celebrity magazines, there is always the standard airbrushed image of the ideal star. A picture is worth a thousand words, and isn't that image just another advert for the star, encouraging readers to drink, dress, diet like them? Or a chance to tell us, that behind their mask of powder and under the perfect designated lighting, that they are perfect, flawless, something that us, mere mortal readers, can only look up to? From that single image, maybe we can assume the woman, even if it does make them terribly self-conscious, desperately needs a surreal image to look up to and compare themselves to.