What is the ruling on reading women’s magazines?

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: What is the ruling on reading women’s magazines?

Answer:
Women’s magazines. Yes. The beneficial speech, whether it is in women’s magazines or magazines that contain both men and women, or books—there is no such thing as a women’s book and a men’s book, or a men’s magazine and a women’s magazine. The significant matter is the good or the evil published in them. If what is published in them is truth, and it contains benefit and knowledge—meaning that you read in them, just as a woman reads in a magazine intended for men, even though there is nothing specifically for men here; there is no book specifically for men or magazine specifically for men. This is merely a convention, a convention. As for knowledge and benefit, they are for men and women in general. However, if these magazines contain images of women, it is not permissible for you to look at them, first because images are forbidden, and second because images of women specifically contain fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). If they contain images, do not look at them. Yes.