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In reply to the discussion: Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has passed away at his home, The Playboy Mansion. He was 91 years old. [View all]smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)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.
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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has passed away at his home, The Playboy Mansion. He was 91 years old. [View all]
Drunken Irishman
Sep 2017
OP
Wait, didn't he sell the playboy mansion. I remember it being on sale not to long ago.
briv1016
Sep 2017
#5
He gave Dick Gregory the money to find the bodies of three murdered civil rights leaders
LittleBlue
Sep 2017
#75
"The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects."
DLevine
Sep 2017
#85
That doesn't outweigh 60 years of portraying women as nothing more than a
50 Shades Of Blue
Sep 2017
#40
Hef should be buried "centerfold style." Folded over twice with a staple in his navel. nt
TeamPooka
Sep 2017
#22
Yeah, the objectification of women was just a big yawn to the big thinkers of the day.
50 Shades Of Blue
Sep 2017
#42
I'm not bitter. I just despise a man who objectified women in a damaging way for a living.
50 Shades Of Blue
Sep 2017
#47
Why anyone mourns someone who made his fortune commodifying human beings is beyond me.
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2017
#50