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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

She Wrote Fake News for Cosmo, but Regrets Misleading Women on Feminism

LANDER, Wyo.—Sue Ellen Browder wrote fake news before “fake news” was ever a thing. Except she prefers not to call it that—not because she’s embarrassed to admit she wrote fake news (although she’s certainly not proud), but because she thinks the term “fake news” is too vague to understand.

Browder, a Cosmopolitan magazine writer for 20 years, describes what she wrote as “propaganda.”

The goal? To sell women on the idea that sexual liberation is the path to the single woman’s personal fulfillment.

“Propaganda is very sophisticated,” Browder tells The Daily Signal. “It’s half-truth, selected truth, and truth out of context.”

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5 comments:

  1. Oh please....DJT needs to trademark Fake News.

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  2. She forgot the very real distinction that some of it is wholly made up untruths, or, as we sometimes call them, lies.

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  3. AT LEAST SHE ADMITS IT; MOST DON'T...

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  4. Hope she takes good care of her cats, and makes sure her fish wears a helmet when it rides its bike!

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  5. I remember reading cosmo and thinking do women really want what they are selling. I guess it’s instinct. You know BS when u read/ hear it.

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