Helen Gurley Brown

I loved Cosmo when I was subscribed to it, the gossip, the sex tips, the stupid makeup tips that I never used, the weight loss tips that most people should know, but mostly the fact that it was a magazine that encouraged women to be girly AND to be strong. Women can get whatever they want if they work hard enough for it, and I think that is one of the edicts behind Cosmo, even though the articles are usually titled "what he really wants" etc etc. Yesterday a past editor for Cosmo and author of Sex and the Single Girl died and I think that there is really something to be noted about that. Not many women go from normal to editor of Cosmo, and not many women, especially not in her time, were willing to stand up and say that single girls were even allowed to have sex!

She said it best when she said "Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anything they want. But it also acknowledges that while work is important, men are, too. The Cosmo girl absolutely loves men!" I think we need more women to continue her legacy and I know her presence will be missed but her work will continue on.

Good job being a feminist Helen Gurley Brown!