• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Wasn’t Play Boy rather progressive at all times? What’s the broken clock?

    I really hate peoples’ misconstruing of attraction with objectification. The presence of nudity doesn’t make something bad, exploitative, or wrong. The presence of someone attractive does not mean that is the entire point.

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      11 months ago

      Good lord no, playboy was always super misogynistic. Hugh Hefner was MASSIVELY problematic lol.

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        11 months ago

        I won’t defend Hefner, but the articles genuinely were (and are) as far to the left as you’ll see in any widely circulated publication. Being associated with porn gave them cover to write whatever they wanted.

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          11 months ago

          Penn Jillette was a writer for playboy, and Margret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Roald Dahl

          Like tons of famous autrhors.