It feels like a desecration of her grave, doesn’t it?

I have no particular fondness for Marilyn Monroe, and I’m normally pretty indifferent to how dead bodies are treated, but reading about this made me genuinely angry. It’s just so petty, so creepy, such a symbolic violation... which is exactly what he was aiming for.

Seriously; who on earth deserves to be hassled after death? Like, I’M FUCKING DEAD, I’M DONE BEING SEXY. PISS OFF.

which were so tremendous that you couldn’t cite a single one? Cause why read the article OR demonstrate your point? Hell, I’m sold.

The role he played in the cultural revolution is nil. He was the enemy of women’s sexuality—only ever showing them as objects with no real will to even have a sexuality of their own. Just a fantasy for men to project against. He worked actively against women while portraying himself as an ally. Sound familiar? He made…

I’m completely open to the idea that he played a role in the cultural revolution of the 70's and the idea of women owning their sexuality, but it’s a only part of a story that includes making money off women’s bodies and “empowering” women without actual equality. I would have expected a nuanced piece debating or…

Seriously. How is this even a fucking discussion here? Now Jezebel is gaslighting? Don’t we get enough from government and culture already?

Right? The guy was a piece of shit and he’s being discussed productively on a FEMINIST site? Jesus Christ.

HEFNER DID NOT LOVE WOMEN. He didn’t even like women. He liked fucking women, he liked how sexual adulation (faked, I guarantee) made him feel, he loved men enough to want to make them envious of him and earn their approval at any cost. women were things to him, means to an end. Also, they made him unbelievably…

This is the kind of gaslighting women/girls get their entire lives. “Playboy was your friend! They loved women! and women’s sexuality!” What a load of absolute horse shit. You were female and posed in Playboy, you were a slut beneath contempt to most of America. That’s just the way it was. Way to be proud of yourself.…

Should I defer that honor to playboy?

That cheesy photo, with caption, explains my dad leaving us in the 1970s (as my youngest brother was dying of cancer) so he could be a sports-car-driving dude who was “in love for the first time.” Said dad, now a geezer, is coming to visit on Monday, from Prague, where he moved in the early 1990s to “be Earnest…

WTF has happened to Jezebel?

The brand was dead long before Hef finally bit the dust. The end of his life dovetailed with the decline of Playboy. He went from being a guy living a life most guys envied to being an old man surrounded by women he paid to keep him company. I’m sure a couple of those women waited until he took a nap so they could…

I’m sorry, did a nudie mag peddler die, or was FDR reanimated some time ago, and I didn’t hear about it, only to die again today?

HERE LIES HUGH HEFNER

“...it is clear as day that Playboy’s Philosophy today as well as tomorrow is as feminist as it gets,”

A sad remnant of a bygone sexist age, clinging desperately to life in the face of an evolving society?

“...it is clear as day that Playboy’s Philosophy today as well as tomorrow is as feminist as it gets,”

Hefner loved women - specially he loved the way attractive women made him feel about himself. He loved the way they confirmed his status, flattered him, and made other men envious. As far as loving women as separate human beings with their own unique internal lives, goals, and opinions, not so much.