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Entry: Shallow Walters Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/shallow_walters#25858 Post contents: Let's be honest. Most women are shallow. Look around at any airport waiting area. Men are reading Time, the Wall Street Journal, perhaps the duller are perusing Sports Illustrated. Even Maxim has its witty charms, like the Playboys of the early 1960s. Women are almost all reading Glamour, People, Cosmopolitan, and, the worst of all, Us Weekly. It's all about the ephemeral: looking slutty, the ups and downs of celebrities, and the occasional tabloid story. Nary an abstract thought, serious piece of writing, call to virtue, or matter of concern outside the SELF among the lot of them. Women, even shallow women, are made noble by being mothers. This turns their concerns into someone other than themselves, their possessions, and the illusions of materialism and celebrity. But fewer women are having kids, and celebrity, materialism, envy, and the impulse to acquisitiveness is at an all time high, fomented by a thorughly execrable media. Barbara's thoroughly ordinary and uninteresting, the way any divorced woman with a penchant for home-wrtecking is after her beauty and youth are gone. Sent at: 2008 07 06