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From: [e-mail] (Miriam Nadel)
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Subject: Re: A few thoughts and opinions on BBW and Radiance
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I read Radiance regularly (in fact, I subscribe to it) and I think it's a
great magazine.  I don't love every article in it, but for the most part
I enjoy the contents.  I've even recommended it to thin women for the
articles on women who are accomplishing things.

I pick up BBW at the newstand every now and then.  Too much of it reminds me
of the sort of fashion magazines I outgrew by the time I was in college.
I find their fiction particularly annoying - reminiscent of Harlequin
romances (which I consider appropriate reading only for airplanes, where
I can leave them behind without caring).  Their models are as small as size
12.  Now, I recognize that samples come in limited sizes, but they don't
seem to be fighting this enough.  I have to admit that my sense of style is
somewhat different from most of what I see in BBW - I have yet to see
anything there that I could reasonably wear to work and there's little
that's weird enough for me to wear for play.  Still, I do feel that I ought
to support them, that BBW does help a lot of people, and that every now and
then they have an article that's on the mark.  So a few times a year, I
find myself adding a copy to my newspaper, puzzle magazines (I am hopelessly
addicted to Dell Logic Puzzles!) and odds and ends at the magazine rack.

Miriam Nadel