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    Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve: Sorry, I'm totally sidetracked by the sidebar "Queen Elizabeth's Man". REALLY?! They phrased it like that? In the 50's? Dude, part of my illusion just... more »
    Mafalda para Presidente: My brains aren't getting in the way of my having sex, but they do get in the way of my tolerance for idiocy. Right now, for example, my brain is spil... more »
    ihateyourescalade: And yet, I just loved the old, HGB Cosmo. more »
    save jinger: I heard if you remove your brain during blowjobs it helps you take it a lot deeper. more »
    Dodgergirl: Yes, but what about her pancreas? Did it get in her way? more »
    rocknrollunicorn: The one totally cool thing about HGB is that she appears to be jitterbugging in this photo. In, what, the '70s or '80s? more »
    ChildBride: Upon reading the part about refusing to acknowledge children, who flashed back to the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Baroness Bomburst, who loa... more »
    Pork Store: Um, is that Carrie's tutu from Sex and the City? Holy Crap. more »
    YourScreenplaySucks: AIDS & other STDs, wage discrimination, sexual harrassment (or as Cosmo calls it, meeting that perfect guy): there's certainly much food for thoug... more »
    rocknrollunicorn: I love the phrasing here. "The existence of children." I just see her on the street firmly turning her head the other way upon glimpsing a stroller. more »
    Whiskey and Popcorn: Also rarely seen and even less heard : anyone not white, cis, hetero.and able- bodied. more »
    VaginaWig is A Merkin: But what good are all those sex tips if they don't lead to the production of beautiful, beautiful children? On the other hand, what good are all those... more »
    birminghamdrunk: this, from The Scuttle Game enthusiast... well. not much of a suprise to me. more »
    Nora Bombay: My favorite is the bits in sex and the single girl where she advocates bringing a thermos of wine for lunch. Oh, and choosing where to be a secretary ... more »
    lalaland13: So did she mind mentioning that both might be prevented with regular condom use? Also unmentionable: ways for him to pleasure you instead of the other... more »
    bluebears: Well....can't argue with the no children policy. more »
    hollygirl: "renjoyed"?? sorry, I'm a crap typist. more »
    hollygirl: I found a copy of Sex and the Single Girl in my mid-twenties,and I renjoyed it- for what its worth, she was offering women who had not taken, or been ... more »
    YourScreenplaySucks: Between the comments on this post & the ones on the Debra Dickerson post, I'm suffering from serious choosing my choice whiplash. Then again, that... more »
    morninggloria: I can't look at pictures of her without wondering how many taints her fingers have visited. more »
  • #oldiesbutgoodies

    "Her Brains Didn't Get In Her Way"

    "First her I.Q., then her beauty, brought fame and fortune to Vanessa Brown. Now, in Broadway's funniest hit, she demonstrates that nothing succeeds like sex." If you can avoid the massive pile of brains, that is. [ModernMechanix]
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    Seen, Not Heard

    According to the new biography of Helen Gurley Brown, the Cosmo Girl was criticized "for not allowing certain subjects into her magazine. These included the existence of children, and topics like AIDS." [NYT]
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    Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: Does A Feminist Icon Please Her Man?

    "If you're not a sex object, you're in trouble." See, it's quotes like this that tarnish Helen Gurley Brown's otherwise unimpeachable feminist legacy. More »