Reading Interests

I was at Pejatan Village Mall the other day with Stephen. There's a Times bookshop on the groundfloor of the mall and we decided to pop in to have a look. Bought myself a book - "Eat. Pray. Love.". It's a pretty good read. I'm halfway through the book. Just finished the bit on when she was staying in an Ashram in India. Reading the book gave me wanderlust and I'm really aching to go travelling to India or someplace exotic to seek spiritual enlightenment.

While I was browsing through the novels, I chanced upon the magazine rack. The magazines were categorized according to reading interests. Under "Women's Interests" were the usual fashion, tabloids and cooking magazines. Under "Men's Interests" were also the usual magazines on cars, bodybuilding, and magazines with lots of half naked ladies on them. There was also another section under "Men's Interests" that had more intellectual reads such as The Economist, Newsweek, Bloomberg Businessweek et cetera.

I was pretty peeved at how they categorised these magazines. It's basically implying that women care for and read only frivolous topics while only the men are concerned about the economy and world affairs. Hey! I resent that stereotype! Women make up, more or less, half the work force! I, of course, had to bring this to the shop assistant's attention. He promptly shrugged and told me that's how it is in Indonesia. Pfffttt!