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Playboy likes to claim that it prints pictures of naked women as a means to empower them. Uh-huh. It seems that Playboy and Hugh Hefner only like to empower women to the extent that they’ll take off their clothes, but when they open their mouths and have an opinion … well, then it’s time to roll out the demonization. They have a new feature on the website that features — and I’m not making this up — conservative women they’d like to “hate-f**k” (link NSFW):
Obama promised us the dream of post-partisanship—a cuckoo land where party affiliation and factional animosity were forgotten. Turn on cable news or open any newspaper, however, and you’ll quickly discover that the dream has yet to materialize. But there is a way to reach across the aisle without letting principles fall by the wayside. We speak, naturally, of the hate [f**k]. We may despise everything these women represent, but goddammit they’re hot. Let the healing begin.
The hatred is certainly apparent on all ten of the entries on this list. The boss hits #1 on this list, Amanda Carpenter’s on it too, but perhaps the entry on Mary Katharine Ham demonstrates their misogynism best:
The Hate F**k Rating: You get this one pregnant, she stays pregnant. Karma’s a b*tch, isn’t it?
Let’s be clear about terms here. A “hate f**k” sounds like something perhaps just short of rape, but degrading enough to entertain the perverted twerps at Playboy. The fact that the magazine published this piece of effluvium should be enough to show that everyone in the editorial process, from the writer to Hef himself, don’t want women empowered. They want silent sex objects, and when confronted with women whose opinions differ from theirs, want them humiliated.
This one on Megyn Kelly is too pricelessly ironic:
The Hate F**k Rating: You need to flagellate your genitals for wanting to f**k this woman.
Isn’t the entire Playboy empire based on self-flagellation of genitals?
Last I saw, Playboy’s losing so much money they have to cut back on the number of editions they print. Hopefully, that number approaches zero soon.
Update: Tommy Christopher concurs.
Update II: Yid with Lid notes that the list also included another friend, Pamela Geller, and adds this:
The internet is a weird place, any Idiot with a computer can start writing. Some like myself are lucky enough to build up a following. There are times that we object to people’s ideas and make fun of them. We even make fun of their political crutches like TOTUS. But there are lines that most of us know not to cross, Guy Cimbalo leapfrogged over that line. His So Right it’s Wrong is not only an attempt to denigrate these fine writers, but all women, actually all writers everywhere. It has no other purpose, it doesn’t inform, it isn’t funny, the article’s only purpose is to be mean.
In my youth I read Playboy often, and never thought the pictures were pornography, but Guy Cimbalo attempt at writing at Playboy.com, THAT is pornography at it worst.
May I suggest a strongly worded email to the Lou Mohn, lmohn@playboy.com, Playboy’s publisher?
You may!
Source (Suitable for work, though the links are not.)
EDIT: Playboy pulled the article but did not give any explanation.
Paul's Boutique
Heh. So *these* are the articles people like to read in PB, eh?
1If this isn't a perfect example of hate speech I don't know what is. Utterly hideous!
2This is completely disgusting.
3Hef has lost it, and so has his daughter who runs the place now.
4Re: Michele Bachmann, "Bachmann is a lusty congresswoman from the Twin Cities who’s got some great twins of her own. She’s rumored to have a Clinton-level libido, and with that batsh*t-crazy look in her eyes you just know she’s a screamer."
So. Insulting.
And I loathe Michele Bachmann, but there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to make about her without resorting to this misogynist nonsense.
5Wow, this is crazy. Actually, his daughter Christie, stepped down and no longer runs the company.
Happiness is not,except in very rare cases,that drops into the mouth like a ripe fruit.Happiness must be,for most men and women,an achievement rather than a gift of the gods,and in this achievement,effort,both inward and outward,must play a great part.
6Christie Hefner stepped down in January and was replaced by a fill-in successor.
7Oy True, I can't believe you're reading it - this kind of stuff is an assault. Yech.
8Ugh.
9I know, I didn't want to give them the page views, but I was curious. It's just all barfy.
10I think Playboy is struggling to stay relevant in the age of Free Internet porn thats 100x better than looking at airbrushed pictures!
(not that i would know...)
I think they are trying to become more Maxim-ish, esp with articles like this.
Gross.
11I get maxim and I love it, its not as bad as that.
12I really couldn't believe that this article was something other than a bad joke for a few minutes. How things like this can ever be approved for print is just beyond belief. Is this anything but an article not only suggesting but encouraging rape? I can't imagine what will happen when that gets old. What will be the next edgy pleasure?
13Still this is an extrapolation of what terrible events take place when there isn't much in societal mores which are either right or wrong. As shocking as this is, I expect things will be worse.
This is just tacky and tasteless.
14"The Hate F**k Rating: You get this one pregnant, she stays pregnant. Karma’s a b*tch, isn’t it?"
I had to read that one two or three times to believe it. How truly horrible. And to think Playboy was once known as the classiest of the "Gentleman's" magazines. No gentlemen here...
15I see nothing wrong with the premise that one finds one they disagree with sexually attractive but the language used here is outrageous.
These articles could have been flattering using the same premise but all they did was make it trashy and insulting.
16I was thinking the same thing, hypno. If they had just said, "The Women We Love to Hate" or something, they could have done an article that was entertaining without crossing the line.
17This is disgusting, but then again, I expect nothing less from Playboy.
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18Life is short. Enjoy it while you can.
It's disgusting to me because I expect so much more from Playboy. They certainly have changed.
19I haven't looked at playboy in decades. The last time I looked at it, and the centerfold, I saw that I graduated from college before she was born. I almost felt like a pedophile.
20Yes Grandpa let's keep our crushes within a reasonable age range. LOL! I have teen age boys (eye) flirting with me at the bus stop & on the bus. I just say to myself Oh Lord!
21I'm obviously in the minority, but I like playboy, they actually do have interesting articles most of the time.
I don't think there is anything wrong this other than the unnecessarily aggressive language used, like what Hypno said. I can't stand Sarah Palin, but she's hot and I'd put her in playboy.
22I have always been a bit torn on Playboy. Compared to REALLY raunchy pics, I do think that Playboy does it best (no "money shots", etc.). Their airbrushed pics put women on a pedestal, but it is an unnatural pedestal. I have read a few articles of theirs that were thought provoking, but that was a long time ago. At the end of the day they are still degrading and promoting an unrealistic image of women. However, I think it is ok for men to have their fantasies, just like women have Sex and the City and Gilles.
This article is REALLY tasteless and degrading, though. Way past the line of decency. They are going out of business, unless they can figure out how to get people to pay for porn when there is so much of it for free on the internet. I give them 2 more years, tops.
23Also, it's not as big of a deal as the awful, degrading language they used to describe these women, but why does Playboy have to take a political stance? Only liberal men want to have hateful, angry sex with their political opposites? Annoying and gross.
24When I was a young lad I swear I used to try to get into the chicks in PlayBoy but poor things just didn't do it for me. Now PlayGirl on the other hand
25Update: Playboy pulled it without comment.
26This is ridiculous. I, too, have always been torn on Playboy. (I swear, they really do have some interesting articles, although, I'll admit, it's been years since I've read one. And, Hefner was the first to use the Q&A style in a magazine, so he was revolutionary in that sense. I also love how he was really one of the first to market his business as a lifestyle, not as products.) Anyway, I digress. I'm glad they pulled it, but it never should have been up in the first place.
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28Ridiculous and disgusting.
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