The Internet Can’t Get Enough Of This Fake Women’s Online Magazine With Hilariously Relatable ‘Articles’
In a world where fake news is not necessarily something that the press can be proud of, this women’s magazine parody comes as a breath of fresh air, showing how to combine comedy, feminism and satire all at once.
The result is Reductress, the internet’s beloved “one and only fake women's magazine,” which skillfully mocks women’s lifestyle magazines, outdated perspectives and the condescending tone of popular women’s media.
Founded in 2013 by two editors, Beth Newell and Sarah Pappalardo, Reductress has turned into a cult-following website, an Instagram page with 738k followers, and a whimsical merch store. Their posts include hilarious combos of smart headlines and accompanying covers that will surely crack you up.
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I have spent hours just trying to find what to watch until i fell asleep
Typical human. I can get annoyed about a 2-hour movie, then go and binge-watch an entire season of a TV show. I binge-watched the final season of Lucifer the day the new episodes were released. I have no self-control...
I love movies but only old ones - you know where the actors can act and they do it with their clothes on!
I must be completely hermaphrodite since I'm single and have to do all the home chores on my own, while having daily arguments with myself over being too lazy and consistently leaving things undone.
You cook or you clean is my dinner process. Unfortunately I live alone and I have to eat...
It means a couple things... 1- it makes a passive aggressive statement on the sexist notion that cooking and kitchen stuff are a distinctively female job to do.. And 2-sometimes we (the collective men AND women) can't just 'leave it be' after cooking, and absolutely MUST clean up the kitchen after cooking.
Load More Replies...Endometriosis is a very common and very debilitatingly painful disease of the uterus. But despite this, doctors very rarely take it seriously. Women have a difficult time getting diagnosed, let alone treated. The picture is making a joke out of the fact that it's a miracle whenever a woman can get her doctor to acknowledge that endometriosis even exists.
Load More Replies...My ex-doctor could not diagnose a hang nail without google or another medical site!
Reductress, a parody women’s magazine, was created back in 2013 by Sarah Pappalardo and Beth Newell and it soon evolved into a women’s humor site, which now attracts a readership of up to 1M. It now focuses on satirizing the ways women’s media aims at capitalizing on feminism while still promoting values that are outdated and inadequate. Moreover, the site has been parodying aspects of feminism such as white feminism, which essentially lacks awareness of privilege.
Telling someone for 25 years that they are not good enough has a negative impact on their self-confidence? No way! /s
Maybe because "mommy" has been "training" you from birth and messing with your head.
Load More Replies...You know why? Because it wasn't traumatic for them.
Load More Replies...They always pretend they don't, because they would rather die than admit they could have ever been wrong.
Both of my parents forgot I was peeing blood when I was 9 and also forgot that I, now an adult, was put onto a transplant list. When I mentioned it, they both got angry and wanted to know why I hadn't told them, I pulled out my phone and showed my mum that I had sent, including telling her more when I saw them next. Which was Christmas Day. They scoffed and got huffy and said, well I don't remember that. Merry Christmas to me.
They do, but in a very twisted way. Like, "nothing happened", "you imagined most of it", or "you made a drama out of a trifle" or "it was long ago". Therefore, they never acknowledge, understand or apologize. My mother was so offended when I tried to talk to her about it, that she started cursing me.
I agree, what is worse is people thinking that they chose this. Who would choose to be ridiculed and singled out, just for trying to be themselves..
Load More Replies...I would like to be both if possible! At least there are some safe spaces...
Large portions of the world do not like transgender women and particularly extremist sorts want us dead. Any trans woman who does not "pass" (ie. you cannot tell at a glance their birth sex) is in danger of being victimized socially, mentally, emotionally, physically, or even mortally.
Load More Replies...So in order to find out more about the stereotypical values propagated by women’s magazines, and what it says about the media in general, we spoke with Lina Survila. Lina is the founder and editor in chief of Abstract Stylist, an alternative magazine and news website that describes itself as “your modern guide to kitschy fashion, culture, and alternative lifestyle,” so the topic hit close to home.
When speaking of stereotypes in women’s media, it becomes clear that “media is more outdated than the audience,” and added that “magazines portray women surrounded by stereotypes.” “We see a lot of interviews with young women professionals where they get asked way more about dating, their sexual experiences, or balancing work and family. Men usually don't get those kinds of questions,” Lina explained.
Um, look at that body language Nothanks, I really don't think (or hope) that they're related.
Load More Replies...Disagree, there's so much in BP to make it worthy of sleep depravation ;)
Yeah, been there, done that...way too many times🤦🤦♀️🤦♂️
Load More Replies...This is for my parents. Violent, abusive, always yelling, arguing and insulting each other, then turning on me to vent their fury (I was 7 y.o.). After some years of this s**t, they started to be mad at me for how I treated my younger brother: yelling, arguing and insulting him. I wonder where I had learnt such behaviour.
crazy ex girlfriend: maybe a little emotional, wanted to be treated like an actual human. crazy ex boyfriend: stalker, possibly murderer
PREACH!! I'd share this with my ex but he'd just end up justifying how it's my fault lol
Please realize that CRAZY and be reversed to treating you like s**t! (try it you'll like it!)
As a result, the media stereotypically sees women in very bizarre situations when gender becomes a keyword in the headline. “So, for example, journalists seem very surprised when women do or share their luck in, e.g., investing. Equal rights in the media are something that we all should manifest!”
Tofu’s great, with the stipulation that you cook it right. Most kinds of frying will do it well but I really like air fried tofu myself.
So what? You are not supposed to eat the things you pull out from that hole, you know.
Money is one of the best (if not the best) stress blockers known to mankind.
I woke up today to the thought of two things I have to move around in my monthly budget so that I have money next week. So I'm going to go with yup.
Load More Replies...it can buy food, rent, clothes, bills, and medical insurance though!
Load More Replies...Money I the answer to all the problems in the world except mortality.
Eh, somehow I have a feeling that the wealthy ruling elite of the world have got that figured out...
Load More Replies...You are smart, my friend! I can feel it in your comments.
Load More Replies...I think I used to be smart in school. I got a Bachelor's and Master's degrees
But feel really stupid now. Doing and saying things that I should know better than to do.
Load More Replies...Moreover, “if you are a woman, you were probably very confused when Britney Spears was asked about her sex life with her boyfriend at the time,” Lina said and added that “unsurprisingly, the question was asked by a man.”“Or the time when Rihanna shot straight up and answered, ‘What kind of man are you looking for tonight’ with her now-famous quote, 'I am not looking for a man; let's start there.'"
Quick! Tip toe over to get a closer look at this precious sight before they move. Take one step and they wake up.
Swearing and screaming loudly is great therapy and cheaper than a psychologist!
Load More Replies...Singing is meant to activate your vagus nerve. Which helps with anxiety. Maybe screaming has the same affect?
At one hospital i worked on a heavy duty medical/surgical 31 bed step down unit all of us were so stressed we wanted to ask the psychiatric floor if we could use their scream room (they had one) on our breaks.
Listen guys, I'm not racist but I really love reading books on rainy days.
Load More Replies...Ah. Yes. The “I bake cakes, but not for same sex couples getting married.” Terrible.
No one advocates killing babies (except, ironically, the Judeo-Christian God).
Load More Replies...Does driving friendly the Texas way mean you only shot your gun in the air once when passing a car, or screaming “I’M AN AMERICAN “ at everything that would cause an accident so it doesn’t get in your way? Asking for a friend
Texas drivers don't drive friendly, I can tell you that.
Translation of the sign: "speed limits and rules of the road are just suggestions"
Lived there. Nothing safe about driving in the big cities. Turn signals are for sissies. Make them guess. No, you may not merge onto this highway. That means you'll be ahead of me. And just get the hell out of my way! But, when it comes to this, you may not insert yourself into something that is no one's business to get into. Like any other health issue in anyone's life, to say it in the Texas vernacular "Ain't nobody's business but their own hon' "
Load More Replies...the fact that this isn't even like fake anymore is goddamn terrifying
"Drive Friendly"? Like the way those Texas Trumpers did when a bus full of Biden supporters drove through?
Drive friendly?! This is the state where they charge at the mexican border in trucks and fire automatic rifles at refugees, yes?
What about an ectopic pregnancy, which requires an abortion, otherwise the mother will absolutely die? What about the genetic defects that would prevent the child from surviving outside the womb? If you had a daughter, wife or sister who was brutally raped? Should they be forced to go through pregnancy, labor and childbirth? Honestly, I feel like men should NOT have any say whatsoever in making these laws. Period. You're entitled to your asinine opinions, however.
Load More Replies...Lina believes that “women's media is filled with hate for women and teaches girls to compete and envy each other. Instead, it should be focused more on gender balance, equal rights, and genderless topics.” Meanwhile, “what Reductress does is using irony to get people's attention to absurd news headlines we all strive for.”
Lina continued: “Now everything can be told as news. Usually, women-orientated publications talk about stereotypical things like health, well-being, self-love, but sometimes we just want to hear more on investing, art, automotive news, and space.” According to the editor, Reductress found a way of pointing out the big painful spot in women's media, and their traffic validates their message.
Or starts stalking you after you try to convince them you aren't either.
Oh cmon, you know better. White people are EVIL; we don't have hearts.
Load More Replies...My god what would have happened had she been called black! (ICU or the morgue)
For those of you who dont get it its a parody of overly sensitive white women who get ridiculously upset and meltdown over the truth being told to them
Load More Replies...I'm almost afraid to ask.... did this simone person break her wrist on the ice or something?
Load More Replies...She had the moral duty to ruin her health and well-being to try to win a medal because she owed it to the greatest nation in the world! America first! /s
I would actually read this advice - never got why being drunk is considered fun
Well, like most things, some enjoy it, some don't.
Load More Replies...And now you know why they tell you to choose your poison when ordering a drink
Just got back from vacation. Carried a book all over Ireland with me. Read two pages 😄😄😄
I'd take that as a win! Your vacation was interesting enough and you didn't need the book!
Load More Replies...I need to read books the kind you can hold in your hand with pages that have to be turned because I can learn things and I can't go anywhere!
We go to the beach for 2 weeks every summer and before I got my kindle I used to have an entire suitcase just for the books I wanted to read.
OK then, let's start a club. I'm pretty sure I could kill plastic plants
Load More Replies...Somehow I don't think any of these stock photos were specifically made for these satire articles, but thank you just the same :) I was actually wondering what the one all the way on the right is, do you know? I've got it growing around my house
Load More Replies...I was molested by the bread man (ask grandma)! Father and war buddies beat the s**t out of him they even let me get in a couple of kicks guess where? No legal repercussions !
Load More Replies...I'm guessing that you didn't read the article? These are all Parody, Satire. Not funny in the literal sense (& not at all if you're a victim of the "joke").
Load More Replies...the only way exercise is therapy is if i run to my car to drive to the liquor store
I dont know about this one. Exercise does help a bit. Does not heal trauma, but it makes you feel a little better in the moment. Just do everything that helps a little bit in the moment and there is going to be progress.
Totally agree with this. Sometimes baby steps are the only way to address trauma. For me, at least, exercise makes me feel a little better. Sometimes that's enough.
Load More Replies..."Exercise fixes all my pysch issues!" translates to "Never seen a psych professional".
And thus never had the experience of one explaining you should do it. It will make you feel better. Does managing to get up and walk to the door count?
Load More Replies...If you cut this picture off at her shorts, nobody would believe those legs are on the same woman.
“Dude, suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.” -Jake the Dog, “Adventure Time”
Brainwashed here. If you can't do something right the first time, then don't bother doing it at all. Wow! What a confidence builder. I'll just sit here and do nothing. I can definitely do that right the first time.
Umm, what if you're clean after the first wipe? Will you go about your day with a crusty b******e?
My wife is Asian so It's a good thing my state doesn't have a death penalty because I will NOT tolerate any hate against her. I'm vengeful. An entire family and all living ancestors will suffer my wrath if you commit a hate crime against my wife.
Uhh... I don't understand this one. Is asian hate crime an issue in... well, ANYwhere?
Never! She loves the pretty kitty ditty! She purrs in accompaniment ^-^
… warm kitty… little ball of fUUUUrrrrrr….
Load More Replies......then rolls her eyes when you blow raspberries in her tummy. Just me? ok nevermind..
Okay, "made up on the spot.." or "made up just for this kitty..."
Load More Replies...Ooooooooooooh this. This post deserves top placement for just this comment.
Load More Replies...Dog sighing because you won't throw the ball or give treats or you're giving too much attention to the cat...
This! I just relized today is Thursday because of a weekly meeting I hate and I swear it was Thursday just yesterday (and this same shitty meeting)
This week and you're condescending about it? How about people just trying to get through this DAY?
I mean thats the point ain't it? to change for the better?
Load More Replies...Says woman who's personality is being depressed. Once again. Depressed is not a personality trait. It is a mental illness that tramples on your personality. Even if we look as though we're fine on the outside, we aren't on the inside. And that's what stops us from being ourselves.
I believe this post was referring to people who see depression as trendy due to the uptick in mental health awareness, and therefore decide on the spot that they have severe depression and talk about nothing else.
Load More Replies...I spend a lot of time doing all kinds of things even though I have but one life on God's green earth. And that life is getting shorter by the day.
Free spirit three hours after panic attack? I'm reeeeeeeeally forcing myself to hold the suicide joke in, here.
The two are NOT mutually inclusive. One CAN happen regardless of the other.
Does the subject of this picture know his FACE is on this? I really hope he is at the very least racist, otherwise this is ... ouch
Pretty sure we all do. Only thing these are good for is tramp stamp sales, and honestly I don't even know that for sure, I just can't think of anything else.
Load More Replies...Yeah also high waist jeans are problematic! I don't understand why it has to be the one or the other? It's been 3 years that i quit wearing jeans because i cannot find something that suits me!! And i love jeans!
Even when I was 18 and weighed 100 lbs, I found these uncomfortable to wear... and yet, they keep coming back. Yep, nothing like feeling as though your pants might fall down at any minute...
One time I saw some article about a company that was out to make bathing suits that look good on all body types, so they had a skinny woman and a fat woman, and the bathing suit looked absolutely godawful on both of them.
not just curvy people that struggle with these things, my cereal-box self means that they would just fall off because they have nothing to hang from
Aargh me too, with ALL kinds of pants even pajama pants that tie. It's ridiculous but better than being like the other women in my family. They are pear-shaped, morbidly obese bit ches...I'm soooooo glad that I take after my father. I got his "man hands" too...not very ladylike, but I can pick up a basketball with one hand. Comes in HANDY 😏😁
Load More Replies...That is why they used his picture, isn't that some form of discrimination?
Load More Replies...Super Important to have a ‘trash’ email acct to hook up with sites like my dear BP (6 trackers blocked)
It is funny because it is impossible. Your personal demons being conséquences of your actions? Lol. And what will it be, after that? Loneliness and interpersonal issues as consequences go your personality? Failure being a consequence of your lack of efforts? Don't be silly!
Not going to lie - Been a nature lover for decades, still see BLM and think Bureau of Land Management first.
SEE!! I had the same thing and caught the mother of all hissyfits for it at work.
Load More Replies...still so sick of this. If you are against someone based on skin, creed, whatever, no, you don't get to point to your own history and say that you are jsutified in being the a**hole. Doesn't work like that. Nobody is morally pure, so stop pretending. Applies to Israel, US, UK, China, pick a nation.
In Emeryville, a Yemeni UCB premed college kid got beaten up by cops for driving his OWN CAR (which had been reported stolen and reported recovered to police). They beat him up and put him in jail for 2 days before dropping charges. In this country, we treat Arab-Americans like me like 3rd class citizens. Palestinian ethnic cleansing is atrocious.
Because it only depends on whether it will make you look good on social media.
If you think, that's a hot topic, try to discuss this in Germany or Austria.
LOL. Same for the Netherlands, my friend. Absolutely zero sympathy. Mess with the Tzahal and you're going to have a VEEERY bad day lol.
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who came to the comments section to find her people?
*Woman worked yet another 60+ hour week and decided that giving you attention wasn’t her first priority just now.
I don't need drugs to ac like I'm high my ADHD has got that covered lol. Drugs and alcohol don't have any appeal for me cuz I can go plenty crazy without them and all they can do is get me terribly addicted.
Just keep reading books. Eventually you get over the shock of it all.
Load More Replies...Books/reading material have been practically grafted to my hands since around age 3, so I have the opposite thought of " I feel weird, something's missing...oh! I'm not holding/reading a book" (The current glitch causing the number 1 at the end of comments has me itching to do this) : I tend to read multiple books simultaneously, after all, 2 books are better than
I...people don't read books usually? True, I'm on my phone more than I'm reading, but I read a ton of books.
This one should be much higher. Screw those self-righteous woke hypocrites.
If you took part in black out Tuesday and expected something in return… then you missed the point.
You laugh but I watched Village of the Damned . . . . . . If it's blonde and has glowy eyes, you run.
I had not enough self-esteem to admit it, but I have always known it deep down! Now it all makes sense!
What's so hard to understand about that? I don't have a single tat and I had no problem understanding.
Load More Replies...Give them pizza and caffein so they can transform those ingredients into software?
Load More Replies...Please please please. Stop going on Tik Tok and looking at pictures of people who are trying to show the world how beautiful they are because their egos need that kind of reinforcement. That is easier said than done, I know. But you are not doing yourself any favors. Check out my comment below because I believed I was. I dont know your life. Things may be going on from other places that reinforce what you believe. We look in that mirror mirror on the wall with preconceived notions. DO NOT pay attention to Ryan below. He. Is. Wrong. Read the question this way if it helps. Are you really ugly, or do you think you are because you looked at another 17 year old on Tik Tok and compared yourself?
Load More Replies...Everyone on tiktok uses filters. Even if they are gorgeous. This should be illegal.
Here's a life hack for you: don't go on Tiktok.
Load More Replies...Not true. In my younger years I thought I was ugly. Oh so ugly. Friends told me I wasn't. I thought they were lying just to make me feel better. Hindsight can actually be 20/20. I look back on pictures from those years, and you know what? Hot damn! I was not ugly by any means. I was very pretty. In some pictures, downright beautiful. I wish I had realized, believed it at the time rather than in retrospect. My friends weren't lying. They were telling me the truth. For many people it is very difficult to accept the truth, even when it's a good truth.
Load More Replies...Some are not only still employed, but have made it all the way to upper management.
This is a milestone. Usually reserved only for white males. Wonder if she got promoted?
I am not a white male but I have to say this, you should replace "white males" with "brown nosers" to make your statement accurate AF. Brown nosers gets far regardless of race, gender, sex, religion and competence.
Load More Replies...Recently there were a bunch of white celebrities who all talked about how they infrequently shower. The three things they had in common: they were white, they were celebrities, they bathe less frequently than everyone posting on black Twitter.
Load More Replies...Good god . . . . .how hard is it to have a damned shower . .the guy can afford to have someone shower him FFS . . . .I would, I'd hire someone to cart around a portable shower and three outfit changes . . . . You wash EVERY DAY . . . . . This is why Aliens avoid us.
I forgot! In addition to the white celebrities saying they don’t shower often, there was a whole hygiene thing about leg washing on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1129130284690153475?lang=en
Load More Replies...Just because you can't keep a plant alive does not mean you're a bad person.
"waiting for the cvs employee to unlock the deodorant": I don't understand this sentence at all . . . . . Deodorant is locked away?
Yes it is. But only in "certain" neighborhoods. 😠
Load More Replies...Apparently everyone here is unfair with the idea of satire, magazine-styled headlines, and that it’s possible to make fun of one group of people without meaning the entire larger group is bad.
Load More Replies...Summary : "Male bad, white bad, book bad, cat cute, actual phrases making actual sense bad"
There are barely any men in this, where are you seeing any men bashing. I'm seeing tons of white bashing instead.
Load More Replies...Apparently everyone here is unfair with the idea of satire, magazine-styled headlines, and that it’s possible to make fun of one group of people without meaning the entire larger group is bad.
Load More Replies...Summary : "Male bad, white bad, book bad, cat cute, actual phrases making actual sense bad"
There are barely any men in this, where are you seeing any men bashing. I'm seeing tons of white bashing instead.
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