Posted on 09/04/2009 4:51:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SHE’S 87, STILL KICKING, and almost certainly still dieting, and the old bird has earned herself a scholarly biography the hard way; if Helen Gurley Brown’s journey from the outhouses and tent revivals of the Ozarks into the cocktail parties and four-color closings of the Hearst Corporation can’t make a corker of a story, nothing can. Bad Girls Go Everywhere, by Jennifer Scanlon, a gender and women’s-studies professor at Bowdoin, is a comprehensive report on HGB theory, which is in a revisionist phase. It rejects the earlier view, long held by giants of the women’s movement such as Gloria Steinem, who believed (per Scanlon) that Brown was a scourge who “enhanced men’s rather than women’s lives by turning women into sexually available playmates.” Instead, we are asked to consider Brown “a pioneer, a founder of the second wave.” Brown “has largely been left out of established histories of postwar feminism’s emergence and ascendance,” and this book purports to correct the record, telling the true story behind her “very particular and still-relevant brand of feminism.”
The central argument, in précis: second-wave feminism—with its endless reading lists and casually divorced breadwinners, its stridently unshaven armpits and Crock-Pots of greasy coq au vin—was fine for the educated set, the B.A.-in-anthropology, little-bit-of-money-put-aside women who could get themselves master’s degrees in library science, peel off the Playtex 18-Hour Living Girdle one last time, and divest themselves of the whole maddening, saddening, 24-Hour Living Death of mid-century housewifery. But the movement wasn’t much of a starter for the young women of the American steno pool—call them the Seven Thousand Sisters—who barely made it all the way through Doctor Zhivago, let alone The Second Sex, and who, moreover, had no desire to go through life looking like Sasquatch and feeling angry all the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Too many adjectival phrases.
Also, I had to look up “coq au vin” and was disappointed to discover that it isn’t necessarily something dirty.
Those who work to increase the entropy of society have the wind at their backs.
While they’re here, anyway.
You know, all other major points aside, if I make it to 87 I’m going to stop dieting!
Thanks for the post, Nick.
The Edwards? I would have thought Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
But it should be a crime if it’s greasy, oui?
You are welcome.
That picture is not big enough, I can barely see it.
She’s a big slut.
Nothing worse than an 87 year old slut.
Great article. Loved it.
parsy, who says thanks for finding this!
But made a lot more money than a lot more men.
you have to give her credit for coming out of appalachia and making it financially. She is the ultimate capitalist and is conservative...and for THAT I give her credit!
And THAT is why the Lefty feminnists never liked her or gave her any credit...after all, the Lefties look down on any “Hillbilly’ who made it in the capitalist world.
Angela Lansbury, however, looks elegant and lovely.
“To imply that it is entirely the wife’s fault if he strays is insulting”
I agree. Not that I know, but I have been told that men stray because women find them attractive and want to have sex. Males don’t like to say no.
Helen, Helen. What were you thinking? Seriously.
Reminds me of recent photo the American Queen walking her dog.
Amen, Sister. If I still have teeth, then I WILL be eating what I want.
Angela Lansbury looks very nice. the other person in the picture ... the kindest thing I can say is that she is embarrassing herself and nauseating the rest of us.
My 76 year old neighbor wears mini-skirts and fishnet stockings with black leather, high heel boots. It’s an real effort to not laugh when she visits.
Lucy - LOL! Like the ‘fluffy’ lady who came out of the dressing room wearing a ‘thong’ bathing suit. She said to here husband, sitting in a chair waiting for her, “Does this thong make me look fat?”
ROTF!!!
There you go again, LucyT...giving MO more *fashion* ideas!
Wow she’s had alot of plastic and botox.
She is SOOOO dead when Michelle finds out that honky bwitch done stole her dress and did that
Who’s, she looks not guilty!
“Angela Lansbury, however, looks elegant and lovely.”
Whoever that is.
My question is this: Why would a ‘woman’s libber’ want to look ‘sexy’?
And, of course this is NOT sexy, IMHO! Of course, you men may think something different. You may think this is one hot-to-trot EXCITING woman. (But, I doubt it.)
We are looking at a TOTAL dichotomy here!
(And, a sad look at a woman who doesn’t appear to know what or who she really is - (or what a woman of 87 should be.)
“...Nothing worse than an 87 year old slut...”
Wanna make a bet? Look at post 14. Imagine an 87 year old nekkid slut.
Reminds me of that scene in the movie Kingpin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIDgPVg9HM&feature=related
(warning skanky, greasy Landlady) The fun starts at 35 seconds in.
I read the whole thing and I am disgusted. I don’t understand how any woman can sleep with another woman’s husband.
Good point. I was never crazy about that song.
Far more people know who she is instead of Helen Brown.
I have no idea who either one is!
Count your blessings, she spared us 85-year old CLEAVAGE!
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My question is this: Why would a ‘woman’s libber’ want to look ‘sexy’?Talk about a case of dissonance ... giving everyone around a case of cognitive dissonance (seeing is not to be believed!) ...
Augh! Must...stop....!!!
Anyone else notice the pad lock on that left desk drawer (NO not the broad)?
You made me literally LOL just reading that. LOL. Thank you, LucyT. I can well imagine the stifled laughter.
It’s pretty pathetic. Most guys I know were thought it was pretty low when Gavin Newsom committed adultery with his friend’s wife.
Aunt Bunny!
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