Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has passed away at his home, The Playboy Mansion. He was 91 years old.

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Sad news. Hefner was an icon.

[liberaltrucker]

1. RIP, Hef.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Rip Hef...

You Helped Me In More Ways Than Manhood.

[msongs]

3. I only read that story...for the articles nt

[joeybee12]

43. And the cartoons

RIP Hugh

[dhill926]

4. helluva life....

apropos of nothing....he and my uncle were friends back in high school....Hef was instrumental in saving the Hollywood sign a few years back...

[sandensea]

9. A good friend of mine worked for him at the old Playboy Club in Manhattan

This was in the late '60s and early '70s. He mentioned that while Hef was always gracious, he was also a consummate businessman and took customer satisfaction very seriously (as well as being a staunch Democrat).

My friend passed away last year at 73, as it happens. Hopefully they'll meet in that great Playboy Club in the sky.

[GReedDiamond]

71. The Hollywood sign was saved back around 1978 or so...

...one of the female singers in a band I was in back then in Hollywood was involved in the effort to save the sign.

Not sure what exactly she did, but she did pose with Hef in several photos.

[briv1016]

5. Wait, didn't he sell the playboy mansion. I remember it being on sale not to long ago.

Anyway, RIP.

[PoliticAverse]

8. Yes he sold it but had the right to live in it until his death...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-playboy-mansion/hugh-hefners-playboy-mansion-sells-for-100-million-idUSKCN10R2FT

[Grassy Knoll]

6. Before The Dotard Tries To Brag, This Woman Did A Bad Bad Thing...

SURPRISE!!!

[LiberalFighter]

13. Did Trump supply it to her?

[Grassy Knoll]

14. Isn't That How Rumors Get Started ?

[LittleGirl]

7. RIP Hefner

whatever. I don't know whether to throw up or bow?
An icon indeed.

[briv1016]

10. Would it be inapropriate to wear a robe to work tommorow in his honor?

I work retail.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. I feel sorry for the mortician.

He'll never be able to get that grin off of Hef's face.

[customerserviceguy]

29. Or the lid closed on that coffin! n/t

[RobinA]

34. Oh Hell,

the man has been essentially embalmed for years. I doubt they'll have to do much.

[LittleBlue]

12. Amazing life

Lived his entire life like a teenage boy's fantasy and never gave up. He got 100 lives' worth of excitement and crazy in just one.

RIP

[DLevine]

35. What a thing to aspire to, living your life like a teenage boy's fantasy.

I'm grateful to the guys who actually grew up and tried to make a better life for all of us.

[MrsCoffee]

36. Thank you for saying that.

[DLevine]

37. You're welcome, it needed to be said. nt

[smirkymonkey]

67. He gave so much to the world and made it a better place.

At least you would think so by reading most of the posts in this thread. The man was a selfish, hedonistic pig. He was a notch above Donald Trump, but not that much better.

[LittleBlue]

75. He gave Dick Gregory the money to find the bodies of three murdered civil rights leaders

It was also Hefner who gave Gregory the funds to help locate the bodies of three slain Civil Rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hugh-hefner-gave-dick-gregory-his-big-break-1043953


What have you done in your grown up life to compare? Have the men you've known done anything like this?

[DLevine]

78. He was an awful human being who denigrated women and proudly stated

that he saw us as nothing more than sexual objects. He made our lives more difficult by perpetuating the perception of women as existing primarily for the enjoyment of men. He treated the women who worked for him horribly. He did not see half the Earth's population as full human beings. If that's ok with you, then there's not much more I can say that will change your mind.

I would advise young men to aspire to be a man like Barack Obama. Maybe not be president, but be a man of class and integrity who truly respects women and loves his family.

[LittleBlue]

84. "He did not see half the Earth's population as full human beings."

Proof? Quotes? Or just feels?

[DLevine]

85. "The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects."

That was Hefner in a 2010 interview. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/01/hugh-hefner-women-are-sex_n_666493.html

If you see women as objects, you certainly can't see them as full human beings.

[BallardWA]

15. Yeah, he helped y'all with your masculinity

and ruined a couple of generations of women. Rest in pieces, misogynist.
EOM.

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. Yeah, I remember when Gloria Steinem went undercover as a bunny

at the NYC nightclub. She had to submit to a pelvic exam (by Playboy's doctor) and was tested for STDs.

[Bengus81]

33. Yeah and stood up and used the mag for Civil Rights used the Jet

for Vietnam evacuation.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

40. That doesn't outweigh 60 years of portraying women as nothing more than a

Collection of sexual body parts. His fortune was made by portraying women as just sexual playthings for men. If he supported abortion rights it wasn't because he was a feminist, it was because pregnancy interfered with men's sexual freedom too. To call him a feminist is beyond offensive and as backwards as it gets.

[SharonClark]

72. Agree 100%

[WhiskeyGrinder]

49. This.

[7wo7rees]

16. Not so fast...

If Hefner really was the champion of women’s rights he claims to be, it seems he might have hired a few more of them to write, not pose, for his magazine.

http://www.newsweek.com/hugh-hefner-hero-not-so-fast-74813

[MrsCoffee]

39. He wasn't.

But saying so looked good in print and made a lot of guys who think like him feel better.

[kimbutgar]

57. He did make his daughter Christine the CEO of playboy enterprise though.

[SharonClark]

74. And Trump made his daughter queen of the White House. So what.

[kimbutgar]

83. Sorry

I was taught you need to say at least one thing good about a dead person.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

17. I met him twice

I thought he would make my skin crawl but I quite liked him. He had a spooky good memory because the second time I met him he remembered exactly what I had said the first time we met.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

19. An icon of sexism. Good riddance.

[SeattleVet]

20. Probable one of the few times in my life when saying...

"He's in a better place" would be totally inappropriate!

[Baclava]

70. ha ha

RIP

[democratisphere]

76. Thank you for the great humor and specially the truth.

RIP High Heffner. You were always living the dream.

[snort]

21. Fuck!

[TeamPooka]

22. Hef should be buried "centerfold style." Folded over twice with a staple in his navel. nt

[JimGinPA]

23. I Wonder What Heaven Looks Like For Him?

[customerserviceguy]

28. Perhaps a disappointment

compared to his "normal" life.

[Voltaire2]

61. Same as for everyone- nothing.

Hef was an atheist.

[YOHABLO]

24. Gonna be one hell of a funeral I would think.

[DippyDem]

25. Hugh was good for women's rights.

"In the 1950s and '60s, there were still states that outlawed birth control, so I started funding court cases to challenge that. At the same time, I helped sponsor the lower-court cases that eventually led to Roe v. Wade. We were the amicus curiae in Roe v. Wade. I was a feminist before there was such a thing as feminism. That's a part of history very few people know."
Hugh Hefner

[Codeine]

58. That is some whack-ass bullshit right there.

He made millions reducing half the population to nothing more than an airbrushed collection of stylized body parts for a certain kind of man to jerk off to.

A real feminist giant, that one.

[treestar]

63. His motive was the benefit for men, though

[SharonClark]

73. WTF. Sexists don"t get to describe themselves as feminist.

This is insulting.

[denbot]

26. What a life..

R.I.P.

[customerserviceguy]

27. Yes

there was the objectification of women, but between the girly shots, there were some thought provoking articles. I won't say I looked at it only for the articles (haven't picked one up in decades) but when I did read it, I found that it brought forth the leading thinkers of the day.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

42. Yeah, the objectification of women was just a big yawn to the big thinkers of the day.

Meant nothing because Old Hef was such an intellectual.

Please.

[Drahthaardogs]

56. He actually was if you listened to his interviews

He really did see himself as a revolutionary against a Puritan America.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. R.I.P.

I know there are a couple generations who have no idea who he was and what a "Playboy Bunny" is. He created a "brand" and imagery that Drumpf still keeps trying to do for his own crap.

[HopeAgain]

31. Zero f***s given...

You can't help create a rape culture that routinely objectified women and call yourself a feminist.

[milestogo]

32. Can't wait to see the Trump tweet on this.

[Politicub]

38. RIP to a creative genius

Yes, he had his faults. We all do.

But he was never dull.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

41. Fuck him.

[Demonaut]

44. why the bitterness?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

47. I'm not bitter. I just despise a man who objectified women in a damaging way for a living.

[Politicub]

60. Clearly, he wasnt a saint

And I guess it’s easy to reduce his life’s work to being that of a pornographer. He’s more complicated than that, IMHO. But what do I know?

[HopeAgain]

51. Pictures of nude women make one a creative genius?

Yeah, okay.

[Politicub]

54. That isnt the entirety of him

But that’s the part that makes me squeamish, too.

[Bradical79]

45. I had thought he was already dead -nt

[DorothyG]

46. I saw a tv show where he was lamenting

that a prospective bunny or whatever they are called had breasts which were 'too natural.' He must have been into artificial materials.

[sinkingfeeling]

48. You had fun. RIP. I enjoyed the Chicago Playboy Club back in the day.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

50. Why anyone mourns someone who made his fortune commodifying human beings is beyond me.

Oh wait, no it's not.

[yallerdawg]

52. A revolutionary icon!

Between "Playboy" and "the pill," America changed forever.

Rest in peace, Hugh Hefner.

[IronLionZion]

53. He died on Hump Day!

Because of course he did. Like a boss.

RIP

[left-of-center2012]

55. I liked the cartoons and jokes

And other stuff, too.

[TexasBushwhacker]

65. Yeah, Chester the Molester was hilarious!

[stlsaxman]

79. That was in Hustler... not Playboy.

(had to look it up as i'd never seen anything like that in Playboy)

[TexasBushwhacker]

80. My bad n/t

[Dr. Strange]

81. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens when Larry Flynt dies.

[nolabels]

59. Elementary School Paper Drives were very interesting.

Back in the sixties students would go door to door asking for donations of old newspapers. Whatever classroom got the most donations piled up at the school won a prize. Turned out though that one of the houses down street had a bigger prize waiting for us boys. One of the houses had twenty or thirty different Playboy monthly issues stashed in between a big stack we picked up there. All of us boys in the neighborhood thought we hit the jackpot after that. It brought a whole new meaning to paper drives for us.

If you can look back and see your own foolishness you might be better for it

After going to Wiki and reading about him, it didn't sound like had that much of a good time, but more of an addictive personality he had to tend with.

[romanic]

62. RIP to a great man.

[smirkymonkey]

68. Oh puke!

[LongTomH]

64. Hef and Trump had a lot in common

Both were alpha-male types who managed to create - and live in - their own fantasy worlds.

And, I would agree, both objectified women. Playboy, and its imitators: Penthouse and Hustler, turned the sexual revolution into one based on adolescent male fantasy.

I'm not certain, however, that Hefner and Playboy were entirely negative in their impact. The magazine had a tremendous impact on the culture of the time; I think we will be hearing more about that in the next few days as journalists and pundits analyze Hefner's influence.

[smirkymonkey]

69. Do you want to know what I remember?

There was a short period in the 70's when my father subscribed to that magazine and I saw it in his bathroom. This was before I had any concept of what sexism or feminism was, but I remember as a little girl that I lowered my opinion of him in my eyes. I was confused and disgusted and I wasn't sure why, but that was how I felt.

I don't want any man telling me how I SHOULD have felt as a little girl, but even back then I knew that there was something about it that I didn't like.

[Snackshack]

77. Agreed.

He did a lot for civil rights. However most of the post here today about him had a dancing on his grave tone in the negative.

[Owl]

82. RIP, Hef.