We Read It So You Don't Have To: Marie Claire's Sexy Shocker is Shockingly Old

By special request, this week’s edition of We Read It So You Don’t Have To tackles the article touted on Marie Claire’s August cover as “The Erotic New Trend (Everyone’s Trying It…).”

The “erotic new trend” is fresh, hot, and boundary breaking—or at least it was three years ago. The dated phenomenon MC so breathlessly promotes is this:

Would You Kiss a Girl?

The magazine reveals that 55 percent of its online survey respondents would be intimate with another woman, an answer that shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s seen an episode of The Real World wherein the cast members get drunk. (We realize that pretty much every episode involves the housemates drinking, but that only proves our point.)

More galling than the fact that this topic is no longer interesting is the awkward juxtaposition of  two women who recount their personal experiences with same-sex kissing. One woman is straight and makes out with her friend while drinking at a nightclub. The other woman is a lesbian. Because, you know, a woman kissing her pal to get male attention at a club is totally the same thing as two women kissing because they’re dating.

A caption in the article reads

Madonna did it. Will you?

We say: Madonna did it three years ago. Will you stop writing about it already?

Comments

[MissPinkKate]

Yaaaaaaaaaaay, glad to hear the article is really that stupid.