Hugh Hefner was the ultimate enemy of women no feminist anywhere will shed a tear at his death

[MineralMan]

80. Yup. As a new teenager, I looked at Playboy, because

it answered natural questions I had about female anatomy. Sort of. However, had I not had access to an anatomy book, Playboy's strategic airbrushing would have left me with a completely wrong idea about many things.

However, the cardboard women that Hefner championed were nothing like the real-life girls and women I encountered, who were actually full-blown complete human beings. As I learned that from the women and women-to-be I interacted with as an adolescent, it became obvious to me that the "Playboy Philosophy" was hopelessly flawed and incomplete.

I learned about women from women and the girls my own age who were approaching adulthood. They taught me how to treat them, not as objects, but as individual people as complex and interesting and important as any other people. Hefner taught me nothing, really, except that most women were not at all like the objects he showcased.

Thanks to all of those people who taught me better. No thanks to Hugh Hefner.