But I look forward to every issue of these new ladymags.
2014, Holly Baxter & Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media, page 263:
OK, despite a hefty cleavage, the standard cover girl for a trashy ladymag stops short of nipple exposure, but that doesn't mean women's magazines (and, as we saw, even teen magazines) don't heavily 'laddify' their content.
2014, Eve Epstein & Leonora Epstein, X vs. Y: A Culture War, a Love Story, page 86:
And between all the texting, social networking, Internet stalking, and online dating (more on that later), it's generally led to what social scientists and ladymags like to call a “hookup culture,” a term we rarely ever use to describe ourselves.
Namely, that perhaps the national media was poised to acknowledge en masse the smart, serious work already being published by the ladymags—and that perhaps ladymags might be reinventing themselves for an increasingly savvy audience, sick of pandering.
Last year, writer and weightlifter Hieu Truong drafted a comprehensive workout plan with this very goal in mind for the women's general-interest website the Toast, co-opting both 2014's trendy ironic misandry and workout spreads in mainstream ladymags.
2016, Autumn Whitefield-Madrano, Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives, page 41:
I mean, I'd read stories about makeup in ladymags; was that all it was?
2018, Cristen Conger & Caroline Ervin, Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space, unnumbered pages:
In 1883, Englishman Francis Galton argued for segregation and forced sterilization of the "unfit." His ideas flourished in the early twentieth century […] Even Cosmopolitan (a decidedly less sexy ladymag back then) got in on the action, encouraging its readers to jump on the "inspiring" chance for hereditary betterment and elimination of disability.