Women’s Magazine

This came up in comments. How come a “women’s magazine” (“woman’s magazine”?) means Vogue or Cosmo or Good Housekeeping or Glamour or Marie Clair, but does not mean Ms. or Bitch or On Our Backs?

One comment

  1. Dan says:

    Because for the industry women’s magazine means a magazine targeting women not a magazine run by women.
    On the other hand I think that Ms,Bitch and On Our Backs are vastly superieur to to worthless rags that are helping to kill off lots of teen age girls in their continuing crusade for anorexia and do not belong in the same category.