Bust Magazine

Pros: Professional quality; amazing content
Cons: Explicit content might offend some readers

This is what MS Magazine was supposed to be, a gajillion years ago before it turned all boring, political, and smug. Bust Magazine is just what the terms, in-yer-face, no-holds-barred, and cut-the-crap were coined to describe.

With the...

Pros: Forward-thinking and intelligent. Doesn't talk down to women.
Cons: Only published four times a year!

I first picked up a copy of BUST magazine in 2001, and I was absolutely gob-smacked at the fact that I actually read it cover-to-cover! I rarely read "fashion" magazines for the obvious reasons that other reviewers have already mentioned: the lack of ...

Pros: More progressive and female-friendly than mainstream women's mags.
Cons: Not as progressive as it likes to think.

Explanatory note: This is one of a matched pair of reviews written on Bust and B!tch magazines after reading them both. The introduction is the same for both of them, so if you’ve already read my other review, you can skip straight to the gist this ...

Pros: Relevant and frank articles
Cons: subscriptions arrive after it is on the newsstand.

The New Girl Order is upon us! Okay, it is long overdue, but I am so tired of mags that front like they will deliver and then fall short of the mark (Ala Sassy, Jane, and even Ms.).

This mag is more real than any I have found. It is...

Pros: If I started a magazine, I would call it My Sweet Hot Ass...
Cons: If I started a magazine, I would call it My Sweet Hot Ass...

If I were going to start a magazine, I would call it My Sweet Hot Ass. Besides that, the magazine would almost be identical to BUST. This is a woman's magazine the way it should be. This magazine doesn't screw around with useless teen dung like...

Pros: much of the mag is readable over and over again.
Cons: quarterly mag ): I want it weekly!

I agree with the other epinion writer when she said Bust is what Ms. Magazine was trying to be, before it turned political and smug. Very well put.

And that isn't to say that BUST doesn't deal with politics, because they do - and very well....

Pros: honest discussions of sex, good interviews that don't pander, good writing, makes me proud to be a girl.
Cons: explicit discussions of sex and related topics. if that kind of thing bothers you, best start with a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves

Love is a beautiful thing, particularly when it is directed at an inanimate object. Like my Bust magazine.

This is the magazine your older, cooler sister brings home from college and leaves in the bathroom by mistake. The magazine you...

Pros: eye candy, good intentions, good people featured (janeane, amy sedaris etc.)
Cons: unknowingly seeks appeal in the same arena as Cosmo

In an effort to make feminism appeal to young women, Bust Magazine has unknowingly fallen into the same trap that the likes of every young women's magazine today has fallen into, with the exception of B*tch Magazine. From cover to cover, profanity ...

Pros: funny, radical, smart
Cons: only comes out quarterly

"Bust" magazine has only one flaw--it comes out quarterly. Weekly would be much more welcome. Until recently, it was better classified as a "'zine", but lately has become big and colorful. Each issue has a theme--the two most...

Pros: smart, very low fluff, hilarious, informative, fun, good for those with advanced degrees and a sense of real cool
Cons: have to hide the pleasure aid ads from the kiddies

Have you ever flung down an issue of a so called enlightened edgy women's magazine since it only seemed a catalogue of hypocritical spreads? Tired of the spiels that tell you to love your body the way it is only to find ten isometric exercises tacked on,...

Pros: Interesting, pro-woman, varied articles
Cons: should publish more often!

When I first discovered BUST, I devoured the issue (the motherhood issue with Bjork on the cover) and was so excited to have found such a magazine. And I still feel like that today. BUST is a godsend, because it is REAL, and is about real things, real...

Pros: Captures the very essence of being a grrrrl.
Cons: Only comes out quarterly. Boo!

If you liked the old-school Sassy (back when Jane Pratt was the editor), you will love Bust. It has the same kick-butt attitude and wry humour. Can a magazine be feminist and girly at the same time? Yes, because this one is. Bust caters to all sides of...

Pros: So in you`re face that it rocks!
Cons: Why oh why it comes only quarterly?

I Just subscribed to Bust and let me tell you one thing!It had me rolling so hard with laughter!

With articles like(Yeastie girl)its no wonder why! Bust by no means is you`re average fashion magazine with their age old fronts. No way! Bust...

Pros: Intelligence, humor, opinions.
Cons: It's somewhat hard to find.

Bust speaks to the raucous don't-give-a-damn-about-anyone-else girl inside of us all. With writers this smart, I'm surprised Bust hasn't taken over news-stands. On the contrary, Bust magazine is somewhat hard to get your hands on. I found and bought...

Pros: fun,hip,alterna-chick reading
Cons: fun,hip, alterna-chick! Don't read if you don't have an open mind

I think any girl (and I mean this in the loosest way, not age related or gender specific) who has half a brain about her and is remotely plugged into what is happening in current popular culture should love BUST. This magazine is sort of a MS. meets Riot...