Cosmopolitan, December 1983

Do you consider laziness a crime? Struggling to ask for what you want in bed? Is your anxiety actually a form of narcissism? This week, the Hags leaf through the pages of a magazine from a time when Thatcher was in Number 10, Michael Jackson was at Number 1, and Cosmo readers were spending their freshly minted £1 coins on gold lamé gloves and home highlighting kits. Yep, it’s 1983 and the backlash to bootstraps culture feels… weirdly familiar. Nevertheless, we ponder whether *doing nothing* could really be the antidote to “having it all”. Elsewhere Franki gets some surprisingly useful tips for reframing anxiety and Lucy finds a new idol in the form of the late childbirth campaigner and social anthropologist Sheila Kitzinger. Want more of these mags? Don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to see all the pictures, features, and adverts in full! Find us at maghags.substack.com If you are enjoying the show, why not buy us a coffee? Ko-fi is a super easy way to support the podcast with a one off donation - you can think of it like buying us a drink, or leaving a tip. Go to ko-fi.com/maghags. Mag Hags is created entirely by us – Lucy and Franki. So your support means the world to us and it’s what will allow us to keep doing it. Thank you so much! LINKS Read: Sheila Kitzinger’s obituary in The Guardian, 2015 CHAPTERS 02:16 - Introduction to Cosmopolitan, October 1983 08:42 - The positive power of anxiety 22:28 - *An ad break from 1983* 24:14 - Embracing idleness in a bootstraps era 32:59 - Fashion and beauty tips from 1983 36:27 - Pillow talk: How to talk to your man about sex 52:55 - What's hot and what’s not in 1982 -- Mag Hags is created and hosted by Franki Cookney and Lucy Douglas. Editing and audio production by Franki Cookney. Our theme music is Look Where That Got You, Mattie Maguire. Additional music: Leotard Haul, Dez Moran. Both courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.