Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere--RIP Helen Gurley Brown

Died today at 90. Doubt she affected a lot of the folks here, but had a huge impact on young professional women who wanted to be single AND get laid, at a time when no one admitted such things.

Awesome lady.

 

I woke up from a nap to see an RIP to her posted on my friend's wall. It made me sad.

I don't know that she affected me directly, but I admired her nonetheless.

 

An era passes. No idiots we, me and my college chums would read the Cosmo articles about where to find single men, then go there.

 

Heaven wanted the definitive 15 ways to please a man in bed.

 

RIP. I was on a plane with her about 10 years ago. She looked skeletal, but she was very well-dressed.

 

Anyone read last week's New York Times Magazine feature on Cosmo's ridiculous international growth in recent years?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/magazine/how-cosmo-conquered-the-world.html?pagewanted=all

I liked it a lot. Good timing, too. It had a section on Helen Gurley Brown and her continued relevance.

 

A real generational divide in reaction to her death.

A handful of reasonably hip and intelligent 25-to-35 women in our office had no idea who she was.

Me: "She made it much more interesting to stand in line at the grocery."