Reductress Reports 'Von Trapping' Trending as Way To End Relationships

The satirical web magazine, Reductress, reports that more and more women have dispensed with the technique of "ghosting" to end romantic relationships in favor of a new trend, "Von Trapping."

Whereas ghosting - simply breaking off contact with a boyfriend and disappearing without any explanation - is being seen by a new generation of women as rude and immature, the practice of Von Trapping - literally singing THE SOUND OF MUSIC's "So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye" to a soon-to-be-ex - is being accepted as the mature way to cleanly break it off.

Heidi Lux writes, "Colleen Carroll, a project manager living in New York, had instant success with the technique. 'Alex seemed like a nice guy,' she says. 'And there wasn't anything actually wrong with him, he just wasn't right. I wanted to let him down easy, so I got myself and my seven siblings to sing to him outside his apartment. It worked like a charm. He never texted again.'

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The first and only satirical women's magazine, Reductress was founded in 2013 by Beth Newell and Sarah Pappalardo. The mission of Reductress is to take on the outdated perspectives and condescending tone of popular women's media, through the eyes of the funniest women in comedy today. Also, we want people to think we're pretty.