Free will, aided by “thigh-opening” quaaludes, lots of alcohol and cocaine. And the fact that once you went up to his bedroom there was no turning back anymore since you would be labelled a low-life skank for the rest of your days. People throw around the “hey, they were adults with free will” argument all the time…

How were the women gross? There was a huge power imbalance. He took women a third of his age out drinking and offered them quaaludes according to more than one account. He was gross.

Yeah, free will, I guess. And there are women who are sex workers with full volition. But many women are in the industry because they feel they have no other economic option or have suffered some early sexual trauma, themselves. (Obviously not to mention women who are enslaved or trafficked) And there are many out…

No, we’re not done talking about what size she would have worn in clothing today, or putting her face on tacky cardboard purses.

Yeah, but it links their legacies together forever. He becomes a footnote on her wikipedia page, she becomes one on his. People who, maybe decades from now, visit her tomb will see his name next to hers and think “huh, so were they like, a thing?” It implies a connection they never had, that he was more legendary than…

Oh, hell no. Hugh Hefner wasn’t just exploitative of women; he abused and sexually assaulted them as well. Oh, yeah, and he also conspired with Bill Cosby in his crimes at the Playboy Mansion.

Yeah, she’s a brittle skeleton at this point.

It certainly does. And your comments are righteous.

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.

If literally any other man did this, would we applaud him for being an ‘icon’?

I will never understand this dude’s popularity with women. The man basically kept a creepy babe-zoo in his house and only supported ‘women’s empowerment’ as long as it fit his idea of women being naked and not being ~prudes~ about it. If literally any other man did this, would we applaud him for being an ‘icon’?

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…

I’m not a Kardashian fan, but I completely get this. When my husband and I were trying to have our first child (and had lived through infertility issues, a couple of miscarriages, the whole thing), we got news out of the blue that friends of ours were suddenly pregnant — first try, just like that. I just laid down and…

Same. I had an awful pregnancy, topped off with an induction at 33 weeks and my baby in the NICU for almost a month after the placenta tried to kill us both. My best friend, pregnant at the same time, had absolutely zero issues, not even nausea or cravings, and the baby came exactly on time and they got to go home the…

Shelwood has a great answer, but I also wanted to add that when kids are involved there are concerns about vastly different income/households. The idea is that it will give one parent more sway over the kids and could create unfair advantage to the wealthier parent

I think the assumption is that the non-working spouse gave up a paying job at some point in order to enable the much richer spouse’s career. And, tbf, with high-paying jobs in entertainment and business and such, there is an assumption by management that the employee will have a non-working spouse and that at-home…

My husband and I accidentally watched this. I thought I was going to have a stroke.

For future archiving purposes, this article, in which the President wants football players to hit each other harder without fear of penalty to revitalize ratings, is posted just above a shared story from a Lifehacker sub-site explaining the effects and probable causes of CTE within football players.

“I just want to read about sports, not bullshit world affairs and political nonsense.”

Thank you!!! I hate the stigma, it keeps people from getting tested.