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

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185. Your logic squares up if applied to a society based on equality.

If men and women had equal chances in life and violence against women was not still such a huge problem in our society, then sure, what you say makes sense.

In a society based on equality, there would still be women who FREELY choose that lifestyle and, of course, that's fine. It would probably be a slightly lower percentage of men who choose that lifestyle now.

But, in this society, many women have made the "choice" to be bunnies, literally and figuratively, because it's the best (perhaps, the only) way they have to stay safe and out of poverty. And the Playboy mentality did a lot to create and maintain an environment where being a bunny was the safest bet for women. And a place where it was acceptable for men to consume women instead of relate to them.

Playboy was not about sex, but about selling an idea of women as a commodity for the enjoyment of men. Polite, coy, women who think of nothing but looking good just for you. The magazines that are more sex focused, portraying women with sexual desires who are also acting upon them, are probably less misogynistic and contribute less to women being seen as objects instead of people.