Glamour magazine is looking to interview childless/childfree women between the ages of 20 and 35. You can be married OR single.
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Dear all, I am reporting my next feature for Glamour on
women, currently aged 20 to 35, who decided against having children--whether for personal, political, environmental or biological/health reasons. We are looking for a wide array of types and reasons, so please forward this on to any friends who
either are "childfree or childless by choice" and ask them to fill out the following information and email their responses at lizmorganwelch at gmail.com .
NAME:
CONTACT NUMBER/EMAIL:
AGE:
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
PLEASE write a brief paragraph about when and why you decided not to have children, how people react to your decision, how their reactions make you feel, etc.
ALSO, PLEASE send in a photograph of yourself too and I will be in touch shortly thereafter.
Wow, I'm aged out. I'm old.
I'm an ancient crone, too. Not GLAMOURous, I guess.
I'm aged out, too, and I'm only 36!! LOL Damn!
We're all just a bunch of oldsters around here. Definitely not glamourous enough!
I hope they're not using 35 as the cutoff so they can end the article with "but they still have time to change their minds.". Why yes, as a matter of fact, I do have a cynical streak.
I think it would be better to include older women who have no regrets, but that's just me.
I'd rather read about older childfree women who have stuck with their CF choice really.
I'm waaaaaaaay to old for Glamour. They want people in their target democraphic. Rags like that don't bother with us "mature" women.
Emma Wrote:I hope they're not using 35 as the cutoff so they can end the article with "but they still have time to change their minds.". Why yes, as a matter of fact, I do have a cynical streak.
I think it would be better to include older women who have no regrets, but that's just me.
It's funny how people come up with such weird ulterior motives about these articles. The simple explanation is that Glamour Magazine's target audience is women ages 20-35 and that's naturally whom they would want to interview for an article. Obviously someone there has made the decision that their readers want to read about people their own age.
I'm 43 and I can't participate either. Big deal! I don't think there is a giant conspiracy against women my age or anything. Heck, I don't buy or read Glamour unless it's in the doctor's office or nail salon, so why should I be offended that they don't want to interview me? In fact, I doubt any of you who are complaining that you are "too old" for the interview are faithful Glamour readers with a subscription now, are you? So it's a bit hypocritical to complain that they won't interview you, IMO.
To Jo who is 36, I would say contact them anyway. If they don't have enough people to interview, they will probably make an exception, since you're only 1 year older than the cutoff.
As I said, I'm a cynic and yes, I know about demographics. I'm not having a case of sour grapes because I can't respond, but if I was in the 20-35 age range and considering the childfree choice, I might be interested in how women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, or even 70s, feel about the choice they made to remain childfree? Just my opinion.
Emma Wrote:As I said, I'm a cynic and yes, I know about demographics. I'm not having a case of sour grapes because I can't respond, but if I was in the 20-35 age range and considering the childfree choice, I might be interested in how women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, or even 70s, feel about the choice they made to remain childfree? Just my opinion.
ITA Emma What about us older CF women? I guess we don't count for much these days, lol
OT Emma: I love your Avatar is that your puppy?
If so it is a cutie pie face!
Emma Wrote:As I said, I'm a cynic and yes, I know about demographics. I'm not having a case of sour grapes because I can't respond, but if I was in the 20-35 age range and considering the childfree choice, I might be interested in how women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, or even 70s, feel about the choice they made to remain childfree? Just my opinion.
Emma, I didn't mean to attack you personally. It's just that I get sick and tired of people complaining every time I post one of these. Instead of just being happy that somebody is actually writing an article about the CF and CL, people whine about the types of questions, the slant of the article, the publication itself. One time I posted something about More magazine, and people got all up in arms because the magazine was targeted to upper-income women! I just don't understand why people get so petty over this stuff.
Yes, I would also read about any age group. But apparently you and I are in the minority with that. Obviously they've done some sort of market research that tells them what their readers want to read. And since you and I and Jo and TW and HorseRacer and whoever else answered above do NOT read Glamour, who are we to criticize their policy?
I don't read Glamour, but I fit in the age group (I'm 29), so I might respond. I don't suppose they mentioned a deadline did they CFScorpio? I doubt I'll have time until next week to type something up.
Vanessa
vanessa915 Wrote:I don't read Glamour, but I fit in the age group (I'm 29), so I might respond. I don't suppose they mentioned a deadline did they CFScorpio? I doubt I'll have time until next week to type something up.
Vanessa
I don't know any more than what I posted. Why not just send her a short email saying you'd like to participate, you'll write back a longer response next week, and ask what the deadline is?
Add me to the cynics because I've seen far too many articles where the tone was either how the CF love children but don't want to have them or that there is always time to change their mind. It gets annoying after awhile and Glamour magazine seems pretty mainstream to me so they'll try not to offend their reader base by having an unpopular view.
Well, I guess I will just stop posting interview requests here. It seems like they are not appreciated. Personally, I am thrilled any time an article on the CF appears in a paper or magazine. Who cares if the articles say the CF love children but don't want them? There ARE a lot of CF people who love children. Just because I am not one of them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I personally love it when you post these, CFS. I'm just amused that I'm getting older and out of the range for the target demo. I laugh because I feel so damn young.
Thanks, Jo. I still think you should email them anyway. You're only 1 year over the demographic target.
I guess I'm the only one who read that posting and thought I might actually be interested in doing it. I'm 35, so I'm right at their cut-off. I just don't know if I have time to write something decent, I guess I'll email and find out what the deadline is.
CF Scorpio Wrote:Well, I guess I will just stop posting interview requests here. It seems like they are not appreciated. Personally, I am thrilled any time an article on the CF appears in a paper or magazine. Who cares if the articles say the CF love children but don't want them? There ARE a lot of CF people who love children. Just because I am not one of them doesn't mean they don't exist.
Nah...don't stop posting these kinds of requests just because a few of us are cynical.
I'm just of the same mindset as Eddy because most of the articles I read that feature the childfree usually end with at story about how some 60-year-old regrets his/her decision or how the people interviewed in the story "still have time to change their minds," or include something else to make the story more attractive to the mainstream.
I'm sorry that you've gotten negative responses before. I haven't been around here for a long time, so I wasn't aware.