Ask HN: What men's magazines do you read?

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I wonder what men's magazines read by HN users. Men's magazines usually contain about health, relationship, fashion, and etc.

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None, because the concept of men's magazines feels quite dated in 2018.

Health and relationships do not depend that much on your gender, generally HN finds great articles weekly regarding those topics.

Fashion does not need regular news but a strong base, many books communities are very good to improve on that matter (same for fitness by the way).

Why would you read any at all? They're almost guaranteed to be "lifestyle influencing" marketing propaganda vectors.

If you want to know about health, consult your doctor, sports coach, nutritionist, or their journals.

Relationships; a psychologist, and all your friends.

Fashion, um, just why anyway. Kind of like index funds, the shops themselves will keep up with fashions. When you need new clothes (probably less often than you think), just go to a shop you trust, and buy something that suits you (ask friends, and others).

Autoweek, Motor Trend, Automobile. I had Car and Driver, but dropped it because they seemed to be picking up a political aspect and I only care about the cars.

I guess these aren't 'men's magazines' in the psuedo-glamour sense, but it's what I find interesting. (And I suspect they have a largely male audience.)

I bought a couple of issues of GQ once, but stopped because articles were pretty much pointless and half of the magazine was advertising.

Also Wired... Not much to see (most things echoed from the internet) and a lots and lots of advertising.

None. I used to read Loaded back in the 90s, when the whole lads mag thing was new.

The only magazine I read is The Week.

The Week is fantasic. I just wish their website was half as good.

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