OMG, it’s so adorable...
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I’m a gay man. As a teen in the 1970s I used to read passed-along Playboys for the articles, fiction, and interviews. I used to study the women, wondering why so many of my male friends were so obsessed with women who looked like this. Then gradually I realized I was obsessed with what my male friends looked like, and…
Jesus, that’s creepy. But at least now there’s precedent for when I tell my husband I’m getting buried next to Grant Gustin instead of him! 🙄
My dad also stacks of Playboys out in the open for curious 6 year old kids find. I’m sorry.
He created the mold. Fake blond hair, fake tits, fake white teeth, pre-pubscent vulvas, whole generations of men who have no concept of what real human women look like.
A reality show featuring his girlfriends bickering over his estate is probably in production as we speak.
I’m sorry. :(
He may not have called them bitches, but he sure as hell didn’t respect them. I will never understand the Hefner apologists - it is no coincidence that Cosby and Hefner were best buddies and at least one of the Cosby rapes happened at the Playboy Mansion.
It’s amazing what rich men can get away with as long as they keep up the appearance of a ‘gentleman’ and put out some vague comments about ‘respecting women’ every now and then. Actions speak louder than words.
If literally any other man did this, would we applaud him for being an ‘icon’?
53% of white women voted Trump. There’s a lot of female creep-enablers out there.
THIS. He took objectification of women to the next level, in a society where that was already the accepted norm.
He was a historical figure and had massive cultural influence, but much of his legacy does not have a soft place in my heart. He had a long and privileged life. His idea that putting women on display for male voyeurism was the same as liberating them sexually was always heavily flawed and very misogynistic. Instead…
I blame about 40-60% of my childhood trauma on Hugh Hefner so I can’t say that I’m in mourning. My father thought it was a funny and novel idea to tack pictures of Playboy centerfolds in the bathrooms at our summer cabin, so every time I had to pee I would be staring down a voluptuous bunny giving me a come hither…
“I’m so honored to have been a part of the Playboy team!”
Of all the post about Hugh’s death, Jez’s was the one I wanted to see most as to see how he was remembered. He has a complex legacy: publisher of some of the best authors of the 20's century, great art, amazing photographers (Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton among others), insightful interviews, early…
Whatever else may be said about Hefner, his contribution to American journalism through the mid 1980s remains impressive.