12-Year-Old Gets Maxim Mag, Mom Not Happy

Andy Chalk

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12-Year-Old Gets Maxim Mag, Mom Not Happy


A 12-year-old Boston boy got an eyeful when his subscription to the canceled Electronic Gaming Monthly was replaced with Maxim [http://www.maxim.com/] and his mother isn't too happy about it.

A few months after the filled by Maxim [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/88486-EGM-Laid-to-Rest-1UP-Sold-to-Hearst], the boobs-and-humor periodical popular among meatheads who aren't quite sophisticated enough for Penthouse. A fine trade in the eyes of some, no doubt, but not for Kathleen O'Donnell, whose pre-teen son Jake has so far received two issues of the magazine despite her request that it be canceled.

Jake, who according to a Wii [http://wbztv.com/curious/maxim.magazine.subscription.2.1116836.html], noticed a few weeks ago that his favorite videogame magazine seemed different somehow. He showed it to his mom, who wasn't thrilled to have a pseudo-girlie magazine showing up in her mailbox unannounced. "When I saw it, I didn't think it was a magazine my son should be looking at," she said.

The first issue of the replacement subscription included a note telling subscribers they could "opt for a pro-rated refund for the balance of their EGM subscription," but O'Donnell wasn't happy that the magazine was mailed without prior approval. "I wasn't given a choice if I wanted to receive Maxim as a replacement for EGM before it showed up in my mailbox," she said. And although she sent in a written request to cancel the subscription, the August issue arrived right on schedule.

Color me shocked that parents of young gamers are surprised and not terribly happy with the surprise arrival of high-gloss sideboobs in their mailbox, pretty much exactly as predicted back in June. Maxim is far from hardcore porn but it's still hard to believe that nobody involved in the decision-making process saw this particular switcheroo as anything but spectacularly ill-conceived.


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oliveira8

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Silence of the Lamb Chops? What the hell? Oh wait the news...

Yeah I don't see how anyone didn't notice that this wouldn't be that great.
 

Sparrow

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Well, that's one way to prepare yourself for secondary school I suppose.
 

grimsprice

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oliveira8 said:
Silence of the Lamb Chops? What the hell? Oh wait the news...

Yeah I don't see how anyone didn't notice that this wouldn't be that great.
lol. you noticed the 'silence of the lamb chops' too? lol. whatever. whats wrong with maxim? it never has any nudity in it. kids can see worse when they go to the beach. and as for any written content... well... obviously these people haven't been to public schools...

legal tips from a mafia lawyer... lolz.

antichrist superstar? dude. i want this magazine issue. lol.
 

Earthbound

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I wonder who thought that replacing the magazine subscriptions like this was a good idea.

"Our customers receive a monthly gaming magazine from us. Let's replace it with something completely different and totally unrelated. What could go wrong?"
 

The Shade

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"Legal tips from a Mafia Lawyer"? Say wha?

Is it bad that my attention strayed to the headlines and not Megan Fox there?

Also, that is hilarious. Spectacularly ill-conceived indeed.
 

geldonyetich

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I'm sure some free speech knee jerk reaction folks will be along any moment to riled up about some mom saying their kid shouldn't be reading Maxim.

The real issue, of course, is I didn't order freakin' Maxim Magazine, I ordered EGM. Give me what I paid for, or give me a refund, or a coupon or something, amirite? It's like paying $20 over the counter for a computer game, the clerk saying, "Oh, we're out. Here, take this instead." He then hands you a $20 package of contraceptives.

If you've taken my money after I asked for a specific thing, you don't have the right to just give me a random thing you have in stock instead - it's a very bad precedent to set. Here's one situation where a class-action lawsuit would emerge as quite justified.
 

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Maxim is a fairly innocent magazine. No reason why the boy can't read through it; the boy's gonna have to learn sometime, and if his mom isn't going to talk to him about it, then he might as well learn from a good periodical.
 

AmrasCalmacil

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I stifled high pitched giggles for about five minutes reading this thread.

Still, 12? Yeah, he's probably got a stash under his bed by now.
 

AboveUp

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xmetatr0nx said:
Eh theres never anything all that bad in maxims. I guess 12 is a pretty good age to start talking to your kid about sexuality.
No, 12 is the age in which you shelter them from anything and everything and make sure they'll never figure out what exactly goes where when he gets a girlfriend.
 

stabnex

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That's it! Just to spite this horrible parent I'm going to buy my sons subscriptions to Penthouse when they hit 12!

Mothers are the bane of men everywhere and I can assure you that boy will never kiss a girl in his life because of his over protective mum.
 

AlexTheBucket2112

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(Double post sorry.)

I suppose I should still offer something.
I think she might be overreacting a bit just cancel your subscription and toss the mag.
 

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stabnex said:
That's it! Just to spite this horrible parent I'm going to buy my sons subscriptions to Penthouse when they hit 12!

Mothers are the bane of men everywhere and I can assure you that boy will never kiss a girl in his life because of his over protective mum.
Their afraid he might catch "the cooties" or something.