That one time Hugh Hefner put a dick on the cover of Playboy. pic.twitter.com/JeVxbcaqb7— Sam Kalidi (@samkalidi) September 28, 2017
There was always a Plus/Minus thing going on with Hefner.
There's a solid truth about Playboy's exploitation of women and the hyper-pimping of an arbitrary "standard of beauty" that continues to fuck with way too many people's heads.
There's also a very real thing where The Playboy Foundation contributed to some important social progress:
Comedian Dick Gregory revealed in an interview that Hefner provided $25,000 toward a reward that Gregory later credited with helping break one of the civil-rights movement’s most notorious cases: the murder of three young civil-rights workers in Meridian, Mississippi.
Hefner was also an avid supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and would go on to serve as a significant funder of the Rainbow PUSH coalition helmed by King acolyte Jesse Jackson. (Hefner donated to a number of progressive and legal causes throughout his life, including funding America’s very first rape kit, via his charitable foundation.)
So I'm not minimizing or equalizing. I'm trying to see as much of the whole thing as possible.
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