Filler: Farewell Bunny
Sep29
Tonight, we here at SailorSun.org pay tribute to a legend. Some called Hugh Hefner “the original feminist” or “the Playboy King”. But I mostly know him as the father of the Bunnygirl.
You’ll be missed, Hef.
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So we have Dawnie but no regular Dawn? Blasphemy!
Still its a nice memorial filler pic.
Bye Hef, your legacy will never be forgotten….
David’s there, though. That’s sortof counts, right?
Funny how the one girl to pose for nude photos is the one who appears to be uncomfortable dressed as a Playboy Bunny.
Maybe she would have been happier to have posed for the centerfold. 😉
Berry has posed nude, too. And she seems comfortable enough. 🙂
The Bunny could have had antlers. Hef was originally calling his magazine Stag Party, and the mascot was a stag in a smoking jacket. But at the last minute he got a cease-and-desist court order courtesy of Stag magazine, one of a group of hairy-chested-manly-adventure magazines that were still going in the Fifties. So Hef (who did the cartoons in the early issues) erased the antlers and put rabbit ears on his alter ego.
Antlers would be weird on girls–although reindeer does do have antlers. But white tails? I think we could have lived with those.
Wow cool, I’d never heard that before!
Thank goodness he went with bunny ears, though. “Playboy Reindeergirl” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Well, they could have become jackalope girls.
Or roe deer. Roe deer are pretty cute.
Hey, we’re missing some more bunnies! Where are Jade, Sapphire, Pearl, girly Ethan, the other ladies at the bachelorette party, Shawna, Morgan, Robin…
CD’s really been busy this week, which probably explains the relative dearth of bunnygirls. I would definitely have liked to see girly Ethan as a bunny!
Don’t worry. Bunnies multiply very quickly. 😉
The thing about Hugh Hefner is that I remember reading an autobiography of a former playboy pinup. During the shoot she stayed at the playboy mansion. She described the experience as sort of disappointing, boring and fake. Hugh she described Hugh himself always laying on a bed and listening to a Beatles song over and over again. As a result I have always vied the whole playboy thing as kind of made up, fake and not that interesting. I will real woman with a brqinn any day.
Of Hugh himself he always struck me, from interviews I saw it do as sort of sophisticated Gomer Pile.
Anyway rest in piece Gomer. You outlived yor time by decades.
Feminist? I think you need to rethink that word. He objectified women. A feminist doesn’t objectify.
You should look up the kind of stuff he was writing about and doing in the 60s and 70s. He was a huge women’s libber.
But that talk can be overblown. For instance I have seen a number of Playboy comics which promoted the idea that women enjoyed getting raped and seemed to promote the “Rape is an assault with a friendly weapon.(An actual joke in my time, I was told it in 1974) mythos. I am not to come down on the magazine. I read it in the late 60’s, early seventies, My mom gave me a subscription to it when I was thirteen, It articles were very progressive,you could actually read Playboy for only the articles, but it still had a darker side to it,
Hef had an answer to that kind of criticism: He said Playboy exploited women in the same way Sports Illustrated exploited athletes.
As a reader I can say the women in the pages of Playboy were not being objectified. Their beauty was being glorified. And yeah, as Robert pointed out – you should look up what he was writing about.
But there was a difference between Sports Illustrated and Playboy. Where Sports Illustrated glorified athletes for their grace, beauty, ability and achievement Playboy generally glorified their women for their beauty and their youth. I remember no playboy centerfolds of fat, older female academics who revolutionized their field of academics. Hugh might of had a few articles written by them but it is the pics people remember about Playboy.
Also Platboy could give young male a falts expecataion what a female body would look like, Of corsr that ezpectation would be shattered the first time he actually yieded a nude, female body and most of survived the experience, but I know that a number of women were bothered by the exception that playboy raised about their bodies. Fortuitously in my day there was National Geographic, were boys could get a look of real nude women, which often the boy would think, “WOW, those women do not look like the women in Dad’s magazines.
Fair points on both sides, here.
Well I don’t know about ” fat, older female academics” but I do remember more than one playmate who was pleasingly plump or 50+, and all their bios were printed on the back of the centerfold to show that they had a mind & personality.
He will be missed, he was a true pioneer. Arnie Schwarzenegger parodied him at one point in Last Action Hero.
So did the Bavaria people. *shrug*
I will go against the tide and say I have 0 respect for the man, and even less for his legacy. But I’ll leave it at that, since I’m almost certainly in an insignificant minority.
Well, he did do things besides founding a nude magazine.
Mind you, I only learned about some of them today, when I read his wiki article.
While that may be true, there are certain things that cancel out any good the person could have done as far as I’m concerned.
Fair enough.
Recquiescerat in pacem.
Heather looks like she’s having doubts about this arrangement. 😉
While we’re on the subject of the late Hugh Hefner, did you know:
* Hef did a cameo as himself in the Roman segment of History of the World, Part One Well, he did wear a toga instead of a bathrobe.
* Hef paid writers more per word than any other magazine.
* Roots was first published in serial form in Playboy, as were many of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels.
He also paid the girls more: Throughout most of its history a playmate could expect between $25,000 & $30,000 in today’s dollars for a centerfold. Plus hundreds of famous women have posed for Playboy as a way to launch or revive their careers.
I hope Brad gets a character image soon. Even if he has only had two visible appearances so far according to the tags (I’m fairly sure he’s at least been heard from off-panel in a few older flashback comics, and there might have been some un-tagged comics he was visible in), he’s important to the story.
I figured out that Heather is looking up at Steve who is looking down her….nevermind. Would someone please just hand Bay a parking meter. Is it me or has Dawnie gotten biggeeeeer///taller, I mean taller, that’s it taller.