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re: Hefner Was A Creepy Old Pornographer. So Why Are Leftists Celebrating Him?

Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:26 pm to
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:26 pm to
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We like him because he made bible thumpers shite their pants.


And Trump is making you shite yours, so there's that.
Posted by thetigerman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Member since Sep 2006
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:27 pm to
"The Left" isn't some monolith, guys

Some of us love our porn, too! Let the feminist wing handle this shite - I'm staying in my lane!
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
28704 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:27 pm to
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Like William Jefferson Clinton?

He didn't "talk" about it, either, he was doing all kinds of disreputable shite.

The left really didn't seem to care all that much about it then, did they? Even third-wave feminists.
I was a little too young at the time to care much about politics, but I'm pretty sure it was a big fricking deal all around.

As for his image with the left today, I don't know wtf to say. I guess it's hard to blame him considering who he's married to?
Posted by Iosh
Bureau of Interstellar Immigration
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:27 pm to
The Federalist has a hot take celebrating Hugh Hefner because something something genders LINK
Posted by Tigerdev
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:28 pm to
i think we found one.
Posted by BugAC
St. George
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:29 pm to
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"The Left" isn't some monolith, guys

Some of us love our porn, too! Let the feminist wing handle this shite - I'm staying in my lane!


Hey, if liberals are willing to call out the absurdity on their side, then more power to ya!
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
55439 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:29 pm to
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Some of us love our porn, too! Let the feminist wing handle this shite - I'm staying in my lane!



You aren't sufficiently intersectionalist and are hereby barred from identifying yourself as a leftist.
Posted by Iosh
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:31 pm to
The unsparing inability of the average poster here to grok the left-liberal divide can lead to some pretty funny juxtapositions
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
55439 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:33 pm to
It's almost like limiting opinions to a pure binary spectrum leads to some WACKY conclusions.
Posted by Champagne
Already Conquered USA.
Member since Oct 2007
48280 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:43 pm to
Because he Liberated Women by paying them money in order to sink to the depths of depravity, take their clothes off, get naked, spread their legs and act like High Class Hoo-ers plying their goods on the open sex market like sides of beef.

But it is the end of an Era because these Sex Workers are going to be replaced by Sex Robots.

Posted by Navytiger74
Member since Oct 2009
50458 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:49 pm to
I think playboy started as a lifestyle brand celebrating urbanity and bachelorhood, which was a novel idea when he launched. I think most people have regarded him as pretty pathetic for a while. In spite of the jokes, most guys don’t fantasize about having a house full of gold diggers who don’t love them running around in their 80s.
Posted by Tiguar
Montana
Member since Mar 2012
33131 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:50 pm to
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most guys don’t fantasize about having a house full of gold diggers who don’t love them running around in their 80s.


Literally cannot think of a single better way to spend my golden years.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89488 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:50 pm to
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I'm pretty sure it was a big fricking deal all around.


Not to those in his party or otherwise on the left.

"It's just about sex." Direct quote. That was the talking point they used to defend him from impeachment.
Posted by NoHoTiger
So many to kill, so little time
Member since Nov 2006
45724 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:53 pm to
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TALK about grabbing women by the pussy, and you're the devil

Republican
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ACTUALLY grab them by the pussy (literally and figuratively), and you're a maverick. Nay, a hero.

Democrat

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So Why Are Leftists Celebrating Him?

Please see above
Posted by Vegas Eddie
The Quad
Member since Dec 2013
5975 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 1:57 pm to
He took sexual objectification of women and sold it back to them as sexual liberation..... they took it hook, line and sinker
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
28704 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 2:01 pm to
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I mean after Bill "Tallywhacker" Clinton and LB[n-word]J, where exactly are we drawing the line for this standard?

Please be specific with your answer.

Can we agree that it's difficult to compare people in different eras? If you could transplant 60s LBJ into today's world, he would be run out of politics. I don't know if his language was more accepted at the time, or if it was just less known among the public, but today he absolutely could not get away with it regardless if his policies seemed to be the exact opposite of his personal feelings.

Bill, I don't know. He's Slick Willie for multiple reasons. I guess people could relate to him.


But, to be clear and specific, assuming we know everything about these people, I wouldn't vote for LBJ, Bill, Trump, or Hef today. Maybe I'm weird for wanting the people who represent and lead us to treat everyone with respect?
Posted by 14&Counting
Eugene, OR
Member since Jul 2012
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 2:13 pm to
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Don't forget Amazon


Have to add Facebook
Posted by 14&Counting
Eugene, OR
Member since Jul 2012
37604 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 2:18 pm to
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I think playboy started as a lifestyle brand celebrating urbanity and bachelorhood, which was a novel idea when he launched.


Here is an article that discusses the Playboy Philosophy they heyday of which was between 1962 and 1965 when Hef wrote his manifesto.

The philosophy was an ongoing rant calling for free speech, the separation of church and state, and the need for modern “heroes.” Hef lamented the denigration of the “Uncommon Man” during the lean years of the 1930s when aspirations were ground down by economic depression. This, he felt, had boosted mediocrity. Typifying the postwar economic boom and Cold War ideology, Hef celebrated the merits of free-enterprise capitalism, individualism, and free expression as forces that would nurture the heroic “Uncommon Man.” And along the way Hef would meander into topics such as the “forgotten” legacy of Charlie Chaplin and the unfair treatment of Picasso. Then after much philosophical heavy lifting, he occasionally got around to talking about sex.

LINK
Posted by Seldom Seen
Member since Feb 2016
39990 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 2:21 pm to
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Hefner Was A Creepy Old Pornographer. So Why Are Leftists Celebrating Him?




Because most if not all leftists are degenerate perverts.
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23666 posts
Posted on 9/29/17 at 2:29 pm to
Leftists? What the hell are you talking about? Are you suggesting that rightists have never looked at naked chicks in magazines? Stupid thread.
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