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The Many Delusions Of Playboy CEO Christie Hefner
New York, 9:09 PM
Wed Dec 2
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12/09/08
do i like playboy? no, but there are plenty of kids who end up running their daddy's not-so-nice companies. of course she's a bit deluded, but it's easy to compartmentalize when your inheritance and paycheck are on the line.
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Christie looks a lot like Holly Madison so I think she must be Holly's daughter.
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Loves it, Megan!
Playboy, dinosaurs will die. That is all.
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The important things. You know, like banging 7 blondes at once while living a completely delusional lifestyle that is overindulgent and completely removed from reality.
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Truly Important Things In Life, #2: Bathrobes. Red velour only.
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Please don't attack me for defending her. I do not defend all of her, but this narrow aspect of what is quoted above. Thx.
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I don't think the same could be said about many women's magazines. The Vogue brand is dying on the vine.
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It's just that she sees Playboy as a business and a brand, and all the stuff her dad does with the grotto and now the show is more like his thing and in some ways some added marketing for the company. Just like Hennessy and Cristal have promotional agreements with some hip hop artists, Playboy has Hugh and the show.
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The best thing about what he said? He doesn't like blondes, and wants to strive to make the magazine more inclusive and ethnically diverse. THIS from a boy who was raised in the Playboy mansion. Who'da thunk?
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@TheVaginaWig: They interviewed him in GQ.
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We can't want to love, show, and celebrate our bodies, and how they make men feel, the power over men they give us? That's inherently bad? I disagree.
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Daddy is a bajillionaire who tapped his *daughter*, not his son, to run his empire. He must not think *all* women belong in bunny suits.
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And I'm kind of insulted that you assumed have "a one-dimensional view of porn" and assume "ALL of it must be anti-woman." Because I don't.
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Not all porn or nudie mags are anti-woman. But when talking about the Playboy of today it is anti-woman. It isn't Hustler but you don't exactly have Herb Ritts level photography in there. Playboy of today is blonde, white, completely waxed and airbrushed. Hefner is selling an ideal than we constantly try to dismantle here at Jezebel.
And she is lying to herself. Christie's defense to any crtique that Playboy is anti-woman is "Well, half my employees are female." or "if you disagree with me you are conservative and uptight."
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Anyway, let me say: I have no problem with women showing off their bodies. Or the concept of nude magazines in general. I *do* have a problem with companies that have mirrors on the floors of the entrances to some of their stores so you can see up women's skirts as they walk in, whose founder & main public figure basically has a harem of young girls, and who basically make the nature of sexual pleasure one-sided. The women in Playboy magazines & at the mansion are there for the pleasure of the men, period. I love makeup & doing myself up as much as the next girl, but Playboy still makes me sick to my stomach and I just personally don't support it. I hope that's more clear than what I said before.
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If tomorrow I found out that Playboy had run focus groups that being more progressive would still make them just as much money, but she bowed to her father's pressure and didn't institute such changes, then yes I'd be very disappointed in her. But who knows how it all runs?
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She may not be heralding "progress," but she's done her job exceptionally well.
Also, how progressive, really, was Playboy in the '50s? It showed photos of beautiful women and marketed the playboy "lifestyle": showing a then young Hugh Hefner galavanting around with young women, smoking, traveling, and drinking heavily. It was never about the liberation of women or progress. It was about photos of women and a rich man having a good time.
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@Mama Penguino: I don't like Playboy. It's definitely not something I would ever subscribe to, but it's not that different from most women's magazines. It encourages unhealthy body images and unnecessary grooming practices, making it virtually identical to Vogue, Elle, Self, Cosmo, Marie Claire, etc. At least Playboy is honest about being unrealistic and unfriendly to women.
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I'm not sure what you see, but I see a smart women who headed a empire for 20 years giving standard business professional answers.
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How else could she have possibly turned out? Nothing but pity here.
I was just saying that there are lots of other ways that she could have turned out. She didn't have to accept her father's views at face value if she didn't want to.
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