Hugh Hefner dead at age 91

Metzger Meister

The founder of Playboy magazine has passed away at the age of 91 years old.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/27/hugh-hefner-iconic-founder-of-playboy-has-died-at-age-91.html

RT800

Not a bad run.

RIP.

PiptheFair

so it goes

Rorshach Kringle

ah geez

Bloods End

Damn.
The man was a gpddamn institution.

Weaver

Rich old white guy that got away with keeping a rotating harem by virtue of being rich and white dies, nothing important was lost.

Muzzmuzz

I don’t know what to feel. At one point, he advocated some rather sexually progressive views, which undoubtedly affected American society. But as time went on and society caught up and surpassed him, he became just an old dude surrounded by hot ladies. He just never evolved and kinda held back later progress.

I needed anime to post.

Muzzmuzz wrote: »

I don’t know what to feel. At one point, he advocated some rather sexually progressive views, which undoubtedly affected American society. But as time went on and society caught up and surpassed him, he became just an old dude surrounded by hot ladies. He just never evolved and kinda held back later progress.

we call that a "problematic fave"

Poorochondriac

Hugh Hefner is a really very gross dude who also did some legitimately beneficial and cool things

I don't think anybody needs to deny one to acknowledge the other, in either direction

Henroid

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Hugh Hefner is a really very gross dude who also did some legitimately beneficial and cool things

I don't think anybody needs to deny one to acknowledge the other, in either direction

Yeah, you can praise the good and slam the bad about him at the same time.

He was a cultural icon but in a time long past. I'm curious what people of that era will have to say about it over the coming days.

RT800

I can't say I know much about Hefner. I always kind of assumed the whole "surrounded by women" thing was a shtick. An image he maintained for the brand, but wasn't serious about behind closed doors.

Then again, maybe not.

Either way, everyone involved presumably knew what they were about. What business is it of mine?

Muzzmuzz

I'm wondering how long the Playboy Empire can last after his death. Technology and culture has made porn magazines and movies/television a quaint relic of the past. Even the Playboy mansion, an iconic pillar of Playboy, seems like an old knitted sweater people kept around because Great Aunt Gladys made it for them.

RT800

I remember reading a while back that Playboy had stopped doing nude photoshoots.

Which kind of left me wondering what they do do, now.

Raijin Quickfoot

The Hef deserves a RIP from me. He seemed like a genuinely decent dude with some old fashioned views on women.

He had a hell of a life though, that's for sure.

Raijin Quickfoot

RT800 wrote: »

I remember reading a while back that Playboy had stopped doing nude photoshoots.

Which kind of left me wondering what they do do, now.

They're just a big door to door meat distributor now.

GreasyKidsStuff

RT800 wrote: »

I remember reading a while back that Playboy had stopped doing nude photoshoots.

Which kind of left me wondering what they do do, now.

They brought them back earlier this year, saying removing nudity was a mistake.

I'm seeing some people on Twitter point out Hefner/Playboy's role in advocating for a lot of civil rights issues, as well as for transgender rights, which is cool. And Playboy included no shortage of interviews with incredibly influential and important figures. I think Hugh's legacy is a complicated one, for sure, but he seemed to live a life well lived. I dunno.

Donovan Puppyfucker

RT800 wrote: »

I remember reading a while back that Playboy had stopped doing nude photoshoots.

Which kind of left me wondering what they do do, now.

They back-tracked on that pretty quickly. They have an online presence and still do a little journalism, but to be honest I have no idea how they make any money besides licensing out the bunny head logo to car seat cover manufacturers.

sarukun

RT800 wrote: »

I remember reading a while back that Playboy had stopped doing nude photoshoots.

Which kind of left me wondering what they do do, now.

Sell a ton of merchandise. In Asia, Playboy is primarily know for clothes and accessories. It’s logos can be seen at trendy clothing shops all over the place. Pretty sure most people aren’t even aware of the magazine.

GreasyKidsStuff

That article I linked to says most of their money is made via licensing, yeah. The magazine only had 700,000 monthly readers as of February.

miscellaneousinsanity

https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/913275116267565056

TheySlashThem

random thought, is Maxim still a thing

FAQ

gonna stay at half mast for the day outta respect

edit: a quick twitter search reveals this has been said over 8 million times

TheySlashThem

more like Frequently Articulated Quips

King Riptor

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

random thought, is Maxim still a thing

British Maxim is iirc

Johnny Chopsocky

GreasyKidsStuff wrote: »

RT800 wrote: »

I remember reading a while back that Playboy had stopped doing nude photoshoots.

Which kind of left me wondering what they do do, now.

They brought them back earlier this year, saying removing nudity was a mistake.

I'm seeing some people on Twitter point out Hefner/Playboy's role in advocating for a lot of civil rights issues, as well as for transgender rights, which is cool. And Playboy included no shortage of interviews with incredibly influential and important figures. I think Hugh's legacy is a complicated one, for sure, but he seemed to live a life well lived. I dunno.

Yeah, I was (pleasantly) surprised while playing Mafia 3 when I actually looked at the Playboy collectables expecting only nudes and I also got a six page long interview with a former Secretary of Defense. That 60's 'nudie mag' took journalism more seriously than a bunch of actual news organizations do today.

Narbus

Johnny Chopsocky wrote: »

GreasyKidsStuff wrote: »

RT800 wrote: »

I remember reading a while back that Playboy had stopped doing nude photoshoots.

Which kind of left me wondering what they do do, now.

They brought them back earlier this year, saying removing nudity was a mistake.

I'm seeing some people on Twitter point out Hefner/Playboy's role in advocating for a lot of civil rights issues, as well as for transgender rights, which is cool. And Playboy included no shortage of interviews with incredibly influential and important figures. I think Hugh's legacy is a complicated one, for sure, but he seemed to live a life well lived. I dunno.

Yeah, I was (pleasantly) surprised while playing Mafia 3 when I actually looked at the Playboy collectables expecting only nudes and I also got a six page long interview with a former Secretary of Defense. That 60's 'nudie mag' took journalism more seriously than a bunch of actual news organizations do today.

For a while there, Playboy was paying its writers double what the rest of the magazine industry was paying, which let them grab all the best writers out there.

Ray Bradbury actually serialized Fahrenheit 451 in the magazine in 1954. "Reading it for the articles" really wasn't that much of a joke.

Brolo

https://twitter.com/msLAS/status/913242392639229954

Pinfeldorf

Holy shit a canned obituary where they forgot to find/replace their tags. That is beyond a boner.
Haha, boner.

Brolo

Raijin Quickfoot

Pinfeldorf wrote: »

Holy shit a canned obituary where they forgot to find/replace their tags. That is beyond a boner.
Haha, boner.

Knob

Godspeed you red velvet emperor

Raijin Quickfoot

My favorite moment of Hef's storied career is his delivery of the word, "WHAT" in the movie The House Bunny.

Athenor

I was curious if Hugh or Stan Lee would go first.

Also peaking my curiosity - what our President thought of him, and if he'll attend the funeral.

Don't want to make this political, but just.. morbid curiosity if he was a big enough figure to warrant government recognition.

Uriel

Honestly I didn't know he was still alive.

Clint Eastwood

I have an old playboy with a bowie interview from his insane coke period. The interview is hilarious and also theres some nice bush pictures. Rip hef

Hermano

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

I have an old playboy with a bowie interview from his insane coke period. The interview is hilarious and also theres some nice bush pictures. Rip hef

I bet Bowie had a great bush

Clint Eastwood

Yeah prob. Its the interview when he says hitler was a rock star and claims that europe needs more facist dictators. Legendary cocaine ideas

Ilpala

I love that the do not publish obit has an epoch timestamp.

Cello

Yeah, not really gonna mourn him

Playboy pushed shitty beauty standards that are harmful to women even today, and Holly Madison's accounts of what went on inside the mansion are pretty fucked up

Bedigunz

Cello wrote: »

Yeah, not really gonna mourn him

Playboy pushed shitty beauty standards that are harmful to women even today, and Holly Madison's accounts of what went on inside the mansion are pretty fucked up

I'm afraid to ask, but what was going on in that mansion? I'm at work so searching for "playboy mansion" will probably get me very fired.

Cello

Bedigunz wrote: »

Cello wrote: »

Yeah, not really gonna mourn him

Playboy pushed shitty beauty standards that are harmful to women even today, and Holly Madison's accounts of what went on inside the mansion are pretty fucked up

I'm afraid to ask, but what was going on in that mansion? I'm at work so searching for "playboy mansion" will probably get me very fired.

She wrote a book on it, but highlights include that having sex with Hefner was not in the contract but expected of every woman who moved in, mindgames based on who Hefner went out with for an evening and polaroids left at the doors of women who did not go (as well as mindgames based on who was awarded which bedroom, with only a few having a semblance of privacy; it's implied that this was to turn the women against each other), openly berating or praising them in front of the others for their appearances, curfews of 9 PM, being unable to leave his side during events, and having a photographic catalogue of every single woman who ever entered the mansion that he had his secretary document and file based on a letter-grade he gave them for attractiveness

There's also a bunch of detailed stuff on the sex I don't want to repeat

It honestly feels like another version of the horrifying shit R.Kelly does, but people accept it because he was a powerful old white guy and these women 'knew what they were doing' moving in there