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    PrisonBreakShaker: Alright, I've already mention this a bit here and there, but donating to AIDS charities and trying to get pro-choice legislation passed is NOT necessa... more »
    larana: Thanks for the post, Anna. I'm a nude model - not for Playboy - but for other similar sites and institutions. One thing I want to remind Jezzies of ... more »
    Penny: I am kind of curious, as it seems to be a requirement, how many people on this site who label themselves feminists are actively involved with "helping... more »
    sekushinonyanko: I personally don't think that playboy is the worst thing in the world for women. All of the participants are willing, eager and happy to be in the mag... more »
    thisface: Another thought - maybe it would be best if we just stopped trying to label people as feminists or nonfeminists? We can really only judge actions, so... more »
    emona: "Hef said, ‘I felt like I had this incredible birthday party and you had to come in and clean up the day after.'" Cleaning up after your dad's birth... more »
    ArtfulSlinger: Im confused with how her being the CEO of Playboy would automatically discount her from being a feminist. I don't think feminism is synonymous for lad... more »
    Tchotchke: Personally, I have bigger issues with Playboy's unreasonable standards of beauty--huge silicon implants, heavy make-up, all "imperfections" airbrushed... more »
    PrisonBreakShaker: I think prostitutes can be feminists, but pimps cannot. And I think pin-ups can be feminists, but the people who run the exploitative empire cannot. "... more »
    Mary McCarthyite: I think if she describes herself as a feminist, then she is a feminist. Case closed. But the articles are quoting other people's perceptions of her; t... more »
    girlwonder: "But it's hard not to see Christie Hefner's position at the head of her dad's sex empire as a little creepy."I don't get this - is it only creepy beca... more »
    The Media: Interestingly enough, according to Ariel Levy (herself no great friend of Playboy), abortion rights as we know them actually owes a great deal to Play... more »
    hatepuns: Eh. If some Jezebels can support prostitution as a legitimate choice for women, I don't see why Hefner can't be a feminist. Regardless of her day jo... more »
    GreenEyedMedusa: To me Feminism is about choice and empowerment, women who pose in Playboy make a choice to do so and it many respects feel empowered by it. Whether o... more »
    labeled: Given my views on pornography I will not touch this subject with a ten inch pole. more »
    morninggloria: Often times, "feminism" is confused with "women who are pro-themselves." more »
    Penny: As a feminist, I don't really care about Playboy, nor do I think it's all that damaging. I'm not really bothered by overt sexism or the objectificati... more »
    LaComtesse: Christie Hefner may be a liberal feminist. Christie Hefer, Playboy CEO, however, is about as far from feminism as one can run in the career spectrum. ... more »
    MizJenkins: If you accept it as a given that there will always be money to be made off of the sexual objectification of women (I do), would it not be less empower... more »
    History Major: I don't think the measure of feminism should be reduced because she ran a business that's main product and source of income was the female body. She p... more »
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    Christie Hefner: "Liberal Feminist," Capitalist Porn-Monger, Or Both?

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