Do you have a good pair of brains? Be careful with them! Don’t look in to the gossip-section of the magazine you read. According to the American lawyer Lisa Bloom, people become quite stupid when they read too much and know too much about the stars, their lifestyles and other gossip.
Especially highly-educated women experience it as a moment of relaxation: glancing through the gossip magazines. According to Lisa Bloom, this kinds of relaxations isn’t as innocent as it seems. She wrote a book about it: ‘Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World’.
'Women are surrounded by a culture of empty-headed narcissism’, Bloom stated, and she refers to a research which concludes that a quarter of the young American women would rather win a beauty-contest than the Nobel prize, despite the fact that girls score better at school than boys. ‘The previous generations fought for equality and education and work. Let us have better goals in life than having J-LO’s bottom’
