Bet She's Fatter than Milla
I saw your preview issue, with Milla Jovovich on the cover. Way to go, making fun of her weight. You know, this magazine is supposed to be all cool about body image and whatever, but you just fell into the same skinny-is-best mindset that you claim to disagree with. Millions of girls are killing themselves to fit into the ideal of beauty in our culture, and you perpetuate it in an even sneakier way than most magazines: by pretending to be critical of it. The young reader of Ane thinks she's safe from unhealthy body images, but is still bombarded by skinny models in tight clothes. You should pick one side or the other.
Marge
Why, are you gay?
Is this a gay magazine? Is it supposed to be a men's magazine version of Jane, a gay version of a men's magazine version of Jane, or just like a different version of Jane? I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to come away with here. I don't want to read it if I don't fit into the appropriate demographic. Maybe if there were ads it would be easier to tell who the magazine is directed at.
Terrence
You're reading it, dumbass
I can't believe someone is actually taking the time to parody Jane magazine. Jane is so trendy, cutesy, self-absorbed and pandering to celebreties that I'm always shocked that anybody reads it in the first place. For someone to take the time to go through, section by section, and make a satircal version is completely pathetic. Don't you have anything better to do? Maybe, if you must make a website, you could do something educational, like a biographical site on Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most important philosopher of the 20th century. In German. Or something. If you're trying to criticize Jane, you're only sinking to their level, and if this is some kind of pandering tribute, I pity your wasted existence. Who would ever read a crappy knock-off of an already crappy magazine?
Lisa
Tampa
No, dude, you suck
You people all suck!
Trey
Vermont
Those references aren't sloppy!
I started reading Assy as soon as I was old enough. So, you can imagine how delighted I was when Ane Flatt decided to start Ane. It wasn't supposed to be a snooty magazine filled with useless information, and I actually read it cover-to-cover. However, I was sorely dissapointed with what I found. You have reverted to your old antics, which now seem childish and immature. Nothing more than lame inside jokes, sloppy references to feminism, and a transparent effort to be politically correct and cool at the same time. I won't be visiting this site again.
Crushed and Calloused in SF
Self-reference is so postmodern
God, another editor naming a magazine after him- or herself. Just what we need. Why are people in entertainment and publishing so self-absorbed these days? You never just hear a story any more. You always have to get the story about the story. You always have to watch the show about the show, read the magazine about the magazine. Are people really that interested in the medium? Whatever happened to content? Eventually, magazines are just going to be pages with stories like "Welcome to page 17, the best page ever!" and "If you liked page 17, you're going to love this page--meet page 23!" I don't care about the editor's personal life. I want to know what my favorite celebs are doing, and I'm sorry Ane, but you are not one of my favorite celebs. Just because you've had a succesful website named after yourself in the past, that doesn't mean this one is going take off.
Kahti
Boston
No, really, we're good liberals
Hey, Ane! Do you think you're so down with gay culture that you can speak for gay people? Do you think you're so hip to being queer that you can have a column called "Dear Fag" just because you had a couple of experiences in college or whatever? You're just another straight white male asshole, telling everybody what to think. I hope people who are sensitive for the need of minorties groups to have their own voices boycott your magazine. If you keep making jokes about oppressed people, then you're just one of the oppressors, no matter how liberal you claim to be.
Rich
No, in answer to your question, we're not going to change the letters page so that the clever title comes after the letter.
Ane, I hate the way you put your snappy responses to letters before the letter, like it's the title or something. I always read it, and I'm like, what does that mean? And then I read the letter, but I have to go back and read the clever retort. Maybe you could change the order around.
Elizabeth
Murray, Utah