Esquire Magazine

I take the print magazine. But trying to unsubscribe from their emails is an exercise in futility. How many times do we have to click unsubscribe? Twice? Three times? Five? A dozen? Two dozen? Fifty? A few hundred? Nothing works. Their website’s email comments function won’t work. There appears to be no way to complain on their Facebook page, So despite liking the magazine, the only way to unsubscribe, apparently, from their annoying emails is to cancel the print subscription or let it expire, and hope they will delete it by process of attrition.

Great, great, great magazine!!! When it comes to men’s style, fashion and advice, there’s only Esquire and GQ. Their «Big Black Book» annual special guide is a must have. The articles are never fluff or celeb «ass-​kissy» and I seriously appreciate that. Of course, I can’t afford most of the things that grace the ads & pages of Esquire and GQ. That doesn’t stop me from evolving my style and being constantly inspired by the styles and looks in these magazines. You keep printing, I’ll keep buying.

One of the country’s most popular magazines for women.
My 77 year old mother gave me, one of her sons, a gift subscription to this magazine three years ago. She remembered the magazine back in its heyday during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Apparently, back then it was a big men’s magazine.
Today, the magazine has no idea what a man actually is. It features clothes that 95% of men in America can’t afford and would not wear even if they could. The magazine also has loopy monthly departments, such as: «EAT LIKE A MAN!» that gives the reader instructions on how to bake a steak.
I have yet to see a sports article in Esquire, going on three years now. Good thing this magazine is oriented toward women; guys like sports and I’m not talking about the WNBA.
Speaking of sports, the January 2013 issue predicted that soccer would replace baseball in popularity after the 2014 World Cup. I believe this has been a quadrennial prediction in American for at least a half century. Of course a man’s magazine would never be so stupid as to make such a prediction.
Liberal and lefty, the magazine panders to its Upper West Side female audience. Of course, the magazine gushes all over the current president who recently won the 2012 presidential race. I must confess, I did not vote for him: I was one of the 52% of men in America who voted for Romney. Yes, Romney won the men’s vote, but you would never know that by reading this women’s monthly.
Every year, Esquire has a cover story on the «Sexiest Woman Alive» presumably because its female readers want to see this. This year, it was Mila Kunis who met Esquire magazine’s main criteria for sexiness: she’s an ultra left wing liberal.
I have yet to break the news to my mother, a breast cancer survivor, that Esquire is no longer a men’s magazine. Someday I might. In the interim, I’ll read Maxim and Sports Illustrated so I can keep up with what men in America are doing.

Esquire is kinda like a narcissistic version of Men’s Health except all the «recommendations» that they give would be either for über wealthy or for losers up to their ears in debt, desperately trying to give off an impression as something they are not.
Also if you happen upon their site, don’t be stupid enough to sign up for anything that says «NO PURCHASE NECESSARY» because Esquire will basically circumvent the terms of the agreement and then force you to pay for a years worth 100 pages of advertisements and maybe 40 pages of $ 5000.00 briefcases… where to get a $ 200.00 hair cut and $ 2500.00 shoes… It’s a lame read and through I could see a troubled, insecure, sexually confused metrosexual clinging to the words in Esquire… Real men should probably steer clear.

This is one of the best men’s magazines out there. I love reading this, GQ and Men’s Vogue. It’s smart but not pretentious. The editors seem to have better taste in women than other men’s magazines. I have yet to see any of the tabloid angels featured and I thank Esquire for this.

Not just for guys. I love thumbing through to see what cool toys I should get for my dude.
Some legendary pieces. My favorte was Mr. Rogers on the cover of the hero edition, with nutgraph of hero stripping down to his birthday suit before the morning swim.
«Rudy Giuliani (in small letters) is a collassal asshole.»
Tends toward the capitalistic and sexist, but sometimes I enjoy that too.