“I Wrote Feminist Propaganda For Cosmopolitan.” - Writer Sue Ellen Browder
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
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How to Write for Cosmopolitan
I found a list of rules on how to write for Cosmopolitan. Unless you are recognized authority on a subject, profound statements must be attributed to just somebody appropriate - even if the writer has to invent the authority. And then she tells you bad and good, bad. All psychiatrists are basically for idiots. So now you've given this quote to an expert you made up and that's supposed to make it more authentic. But of course it would. This is how propaganda works.
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