Undone

I thought I'd done a post on a review of Bad Girls Go Everywhere (Jennifer Scanlon), the bio of Helen Gurley Brown, in which the reviewer made an explicit connection between Sex and the Single Girl and The Feminine Mystique, but apparently not.

Caitlin Flanagan reviews Bad Girls and makes an explicit connection to career women and John Edwards. (I had thought that the term "hellcat" had been retired from the lexicon, but no.) (I'm not going to bother with the current news in that direction, except to note that apparently delusion was evident on both sides.) The review is pretty much vitriol stew with a couple small shards of glass. People have been telling me that The Atlantic has really gone downhill, and now I believe them.

(ETA: The class hatred is especially squick-making.)

(EFTA: Found it.)