• ysjet@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

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

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      9 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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        9 months ago

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

        Like tons of famous autrhors.