RIP Helen Gurley Brown

You don’t have to like Cosmo to have admired Helen Gurley Brown. You only have to appreciate how rare her voice was at the time it appeared: Sex and the Single Girl came out a year before The Feminine Mystique.

And she was, of course, a pro-sex woman’s voice which in the 1960s and 1970s was not very acceptable in mainstream feminism.

RIP, Ms. Brown. You did good.