Tell me this isn't absurd.

Next to Mad, I think one of the funniest magazines on the stands is Esquire. A much better name for this would be The Extreme Narcissist. What could be funnier than all those handsome and not-so-handsome male models doing their best to look stern and macho while dressed in some of the most prissy and effeminate fashions ever. Certainly not all these models are gay, but if they have any interest in the beautiful woman in these ads, it doesn't show. Besides all the gay men I know smile, which is not something you see in the pages of this glossy confection.  Of course many of these silly long coats, silken scarfs, dainty hats, unisex glasses, and multi-buckle shoes would be eschewed by any man with a sense of true fashion. It is amazing that Esquire has stayed in business for so many years offering little less than how-to articles for intensely self-centered poseurs along with the occasional celebrity profile, usually of someone who wouldn't be caught dead in the fashions featured in the magazines ads. Oh, yes, they generally include an erotic cartoon or an article on sex to prove that they are not just impotent
designer-obsessed fops.