Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was a rapist

Can’t wait til Hugh’s good ol buddy Bill Maher tries to dismiss all this as being part of “cancel culture”.

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Asshats of a feather…

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Oh what a shame, couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!

/s

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He always had a thing for taking photos of underage women and then publishing them once they hit 18. So people would think they were shot when they were legal.

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This dude stands ready to carry your ammunition and fight beside you.

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Who owns Playboy these days? I haven’t given the one-time empire a thought since Hef kicked the bucket. So I was surprised to see the rabbit logo appear on a billboard a couple of weeks ago above the word “Pleasures.” Is someone trying to pump new vigor into the brand’s flaccid shell?

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GET. OUT!

Is anyone surprised?

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Really? There are people out there that didn’t just assume this?

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The public does.

Traded on NASDAQ as PLBY.

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Gee, ya think? Who could possibly have known that a repulsive, impotent man-child was a rapist? :thinking:

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Birds, feathers




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This is old news - the memoir they reference by Holly Madison is from 2015 and there were other woman calling out these issues before then.

He should’ve been prosecuted, and might have been if he was still alive today (during/post the modern MeToo movement).

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I have seen sweatshirts with that goddam bunny on them. There’s even a makeup line, of all things. I suppose it’s marketed toward seriously self-loathing makeup wearers.

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a 10-part A&E miniseries about Hefner and the Playboy empire.

Why?!

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End of episode 1: viewer sits back and exhales. “Wow,” they think to themselves, “I thought it was bad, but I didn’t realise how bad it was.” Then they sit upright and blink. “And… there’s another nine episodes of how it was even worse than that?

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Yeah. Also, dammit, I just realized how privileged I was to be able to not have to think about him since however long ago it was that he died.

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:face_vomiting:

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Yeah, sigh, I wonder how deep into all of this ol’ Shel was; he actually lived in the Playboy mansion for a while. Though it’s my understanding he didn’t have any trouble attracting willing female attention.

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That one’s a movie about exploitation in the porn industry. I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know if it’s for or against.

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Um, with an actor named Chris Cock, isn’t it likely to be just another example of it?

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