Cosmo is Cracked

So a friend of mine recently mentioned these two links from Cracked.com, a humor site, in a shabbat conversation. The links make fun of Cosmo:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19066_7-psychotic-pieces-relationship-advice-from-cosmo.html

http://www.cracked.com/article/156_7-sex-tips-from-cosmo-that-will-put-you-in-hospital/

The fact that a mainstream humor site, without any feminist agenda, aimed at the average* 20-something- year old, is making fun of Cosmo and recognizing how ridiculous Cosmo is, makes me happy.

* and hence, male: Unless a site specifically targets women, it aims itself towards a general audience that is assumed to be male, because that is the norm in our society. Women is the Other. See Simone de Beauvoir, "The Second Sex". I would argue this particularly in the case of humor sites, since society views men both as major consumers and producers of humor, which is a man's territory. Many women in the comedy world complain about that. This link relies too much on gender stereotypes and is too spiteful of religion for me to agree with it, but I think it's a great example of the notion in pop culture that humor is a man's province: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/01/hitchens200701