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Your Daily Fug! Hugh Hefner, The Shannon Twins, and All Playboy Stands For
Here is producer/ musician Quincy Jones with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner at the 2009 Playboy Jazz Festival Press Conference at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills yesterday.
I am continuously baffled by the idea that women love fame and money enough to date a man that could be their grandfather. My Chuck Taylors are over 4-years-old and have holes in their soles, and I still haven’t managed to shell out the 60 bucks for a new pair because it seems like a waste of money to me, so sucking old man balls for a moment in the spotlight seems ever more absurd.
Growing up I used to think Playboy Magazine were such great innovators, but the more I analyze it now, it’s quite cookie cutter and unoriginal. Another white blonde with fake tits? I’m dripping. *Rolls eyes* Founded in 1953, it wasn’t until nearly 20 years later that the first black women ever graced their magazine cover. For a publication considered so radical, isn’t that timeframe just a tad bit delayed?
I keep staring at this photo of Hugh with Quincy, but almost immediately my mind gets flashes of him taking Viagra and teabagging his new girlfriends, the young 19-year-old twin sisters known as The Shannon Twins, and I find myself making faces and cringing at the screen.
Perhaps I’m being biased due to my own upbringing, because as a Puerto Rican female with a diverse range of friends, I have never equated beauty with blonde, blue-eyed, and big-tittied. Of course, that doesn’t mean I equate that with ugliness, and I know Playboy has featured more than just blondes during their lifespan, but I still can’t get over the idea that at the age of 82, Hugh’s girlfriends still look like a Barbie knock-off. I know I can’t fault him for what he likes, but I find myself sitting here on my couch shaking my head all the same.
What are your thoughts on what I’ve just said? Any agreements or disagreements? I’m in the mood for a good conversation. Bring it! 
Below, Hugh with his new GFs and Playboy’s 55th Anniversary Playmate of the Month for the January 2009 issue of Playboy Magazine, Dasha Astafieva, in Monte Carlo, Monaco earlier this month.
Melysa. I agree with you 100%. Too many times in Playboy, so see the PMOM and then the next month it’s another bleach blonde that looks exactly the same as the girl from the previous month. I mean, come on, it’s not 1987. There are hot girls that are NOT bleach blondes
I spoke about this topic the other day with my mom and dad and they both said the same thing, “They are trying to keep up with the times.” Actually, that was in response to my saying they aren’t as classy as I remember them to be. Perception is everything, though, isn’t it? I was a little girl, what the hell did I know. But the way the media has painted this brand, they make it sound like they’re revolutionary. And they are in a way, which I suppose is why it’s upsetting to me to see that for as revolutionary as they once were, they seem to have gotten stuck in time and never moved forward. Maybe it’s reasons like this that I find myself being sexually repulsed by porn stars in adult films, and now find myself moving towards the amateurs genre of adult film. It’s nice to see what real women look like every once and again. Although, sometimes I still like the lasered/waxed look that the pros have. Close-ups on a shaved man or woman is NOT attractive. LOL.
XOXO
Melysa
You could not be more right. Part of the reason that society itself assumes blond, blue eye, big breasted women as the measuring stick for beauty is partly due to playboy. So much so that even women assume this is how they need to portray themselves, which really is the saddest part. It goes back to the biological fact that big breast relay fertility and blond hair relays youthfulness, as only 30% of the world pop. is naturally blond. Although this is a biological instinct, it has somehow become the ideal for what is considered beauty. It really comes down to the Media bombarding us with images of big breasted blond women, so much so that we begin to believe it ourselves. So much so that even beautiful black women have straightened and dyed their hair blond….BEYONCE, Mary J. Blige. These are all powerful women in our community and they too believe that it’s better for them to look that way??? What the hell is that telling our children?
Hey babycakes! I agree with you 100%. Playboy stopped being radical and revolutionary many, many years ago. It has turned into something bland and oh so predictable. I can’t imagine what its doing in the minds of young teenage girls. I am 26 and even I must admit I sometimes find myself wishing I looked plastic and dolled up. I’m so glad I have brilliant friends like you that put me back in my place… That and the fact that I always equate the money it takes to get a boob job, constant tanning and hair dyeing etc. to the money I could probably spend traveling several places, smelling the paint on museum walls, or even the beginnings of a small downpayment of sorts.
I love your work! xoxo. Rox.
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I didnt read all of this, cause I got stuck on the chucks. I just still cant believe they are $60 bucks. Im 24, so we are close in age, and I know you can remember a time when they were $19.99.
@Karter
Dude, that’s what I’m talking about! The other day a friend of mine said that they were never 20 bucks. I’m happy someone remembers!
XOXO
Melysa
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