Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave Cosmopolitan Its Purr, Is Dead at 90

New York Times ^ | August 13, 2012 | Christine Haughney

[C19fan]

Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan who transformed the magazine in the 1960s into a source of sexual empowerment for women, died Monday morning.

A spokesman for the Hearst Corporation, which publishes Cosmopolitan, said that Ms. Brown, 90, died after being hospitalized briefly at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital.

[C19fan]

I can't think of any other two individuals than Brown and Hefner that have done more damage to society since WW II.

[clintonh8r]

She looked dead since 1980....

[Revolting cat!]

IBITSWD (In Before I Thought She Was Dead!)

[righttackle44]

She will stand before the Lord for her contributions to American society. I will ;et Him judge her. I don’t have to be
concerned with her anymore.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Add a third.

Benjamin Spock

[Gay State Conservative]

Very true.Two totally amoral pieces of excrement.

[Red Badger]

Add a fourth, Kinsey.......

[clintonh8r]

Margaret Sanger and Madalyn Murray O’Hair were far more pernicious, IMO. Brown and Hefner were just a couple of libertines with big microphones.

[afraidfortherepublic]

My grandmother taught me that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say....

She also taught me to never speak ill of the dead.

[Iron Munro]

[SoFloFreeper]

Maybe she repented before she passed. Her “morality” contributed to the detriment of women all over America.

[Talisker]

Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave Cosmopolitan Its Purr, Is Dead at 90

Few did more to make a billion women across five generations hate their own bodies, doubt their own minds, and reject their own hearts.

If there is a hell, this vile creature is in it.

[DuncanWaring]

You should only say good things about the dead.

Helen Gurley Brown is dead.

Good.

(Paraphrased, I think, from Mark Twain)

[SoFloFreeper]

Have you seen this interview William Buckley had with Hugh Hefner back in 1966?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMM92gLiYDQ

Buckley challenges Hefner's philosophy quite well...Hefner, of course, is determined to defend his sophomoric behavior and teenage-boy philosophy.

[Rumplemeyer]

wonderful sign, where can I buy one....

[Rumplemeyer]

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain

[fish hawk]

Best known for her giving an inferior complex to millions of your ladies.

[Deb]

I would add the Beatles to your list.

Brown took the art of gold-digging to Olympian heights and made the life of a good and talented man (David Brown) miserable.

[Deb]

So why didn’t you speak up when she was alive?

[Chickensoup]

She was evil wrapped in smooth and seductive.