Oh my fucking god 😭
Lmao that was a good one
How I wish the average person would realise that they can still make jokes about trans people as you can about any group of people, just make jokes (like this) where it’s laughing with us, not at us. Where there’s no maliciousness and we’re all involved and laughing rather than being the butt of it.
Maybe someday we’ll properly get to that point. Thanks for the giggle :3
Despite the understandable scorn Playboy and Hefner have earned, there was a period of time where there were really interesting articles and good journalism being published next to the tits
Unlike Rupert Murdoch’s The S*n.
Thanks for the censor, it still jumpscared me but it was easier to recover ❤️
Unfortunately, there’re a lot more UK rags owned by Murdoch than just that one :( and many others owned by other rightwing billionaires. It’s insane we have got to this point where our majority sources of our local news is mostly all foreign billionaire + politically captured
Saturday Light Nive?
That’s one of the two names adopted by the people of Liverpool after The S*n’s repeated, outrageous lies about the victims of the Hillsborough disaster. The other is The Scum. I think the paper is essentially unavailable if you live in the city. Nobody will stock it.
They’re famous for their Page 3 girls. They’d put naked women just inside the cover of their newspapers. They also ran campaigns counting down to the 16th birthdays of Charlotte Church and Emma Watson. The thing they seem to have forgotten is that it would still not be legal for the readers to sleep with these children, as neither is going to shag a 67 year old S*n reader consensually.
16?! Jesus Christ.
That countdown thing is vile, gods below.
Magazine in the UK which would post topless 16 year olds until it was made illegal.
Newspaper*
Is it though?
Fair point
The comics were great too
The joke rubric is alleged by my mother to have been exceptional and funny and a great reason to buy playboy back then.
It wasn’t just a porn magazine.
Yeah, the joke back in the day was that guys would say they “read Playboy for the articles” as a cover story so they didn’t have to say they were looking at porn. But at the same time, they did have really good articles. Funny, thought provoking, and surprisingly progressive.
They were also one of the first print magazines to embrace the internet. I remember them posting a really cool Hellboy motion comic on their website back in the 90s.
My favorite iteration of this joke is in the movie Smeakers, where Whistler, a blind character, is reading a braille edition of Playboy.
One of my favorite movies and it kills me how much less people seem to care about the blind than ever.
I’m been saying for years that it’s not okay that US currency isn’t accessible to the blind.
Hear hear! I have just noticed since I was a kid in the 80s the slow creep of just… not doing braille anymore in public spaces. Used to seem pretty common, now it seems rare.
It’s widespread ableism across the board.
You even have people in the UK calling for disability benefits to be suspended because “those people can work but choose not to”
I guess they made the same joke in men in tights.
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Blinkin reading a Braille edition of Playboy on the toilet?
in my comment thread, you are answering to a different comment. The braille comment is further down than yours.
looking at .org while not logged in it looks correct. might be an issue with your client.
I fucking love that movie.
They had also great and deep articles from what I gather
There’s one from 1970 that had a great interview with Stanley Kubrick that ended with a quote that has stuck with me:
No matter how vast the darkness, we must create our own light
The last question & answer was this, which is even better:
Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living?
Kubrick: Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism—and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in faith and in the ultimate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong—and lucky—he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining.
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death—however mutable man may be able to make them—our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Entire interview was text with original pages scanned: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/playboy-interview-stanley-kubrick/
That’s the 80s version of watching hentai for the plot lol
It was the “classy” porn magazine, if there can be such a thing. Good articles and jokes.
While beeing Playboy of course, Playboy has always done many things right. Robert Anton Wilson and Hunter S. Thompson wrote some of their best pieces for it. And there are many more writers who wrote pieces jokes etc. That where ahead of their time, for Playboy.
Hef might’ve been a misogynistic lecher but Playboy was publishing progressive think-pieces a looonnng time before a lot of other more mainstream magazines.
Reminder Hefner reported Epstein to the FBI years before most others clocked him. He was a misogynistic lecher but he was one with standards.
It’s a weird world when Hefner has more standards than pretty much all of the US political elite
Hefner and his ilk are to the modern degenerates what the old German nobility was to the Nazis, both an evolution of and a contrast. Though I wouldn’t say Hefner was himself a direct cause to profligates like Epstein or Trump, he was just the last notable example of a more or less dead breed. I think I’ve seen the term paternalistic misogyny thrown around in reference to Hefner and his ilk, wherein the focus wasn’t necessarily on hating women but moreso on securing or representing a paternalistic image.
Also I’m like 80 percent sure that modern misogynists legit hate women and aren’t just demeaning and abusive ass wipes to them.
Getting bottom surgery in under a year? Good for her!
Yeah 😔
Because they understood that diminishing others doesn’t actually make you bigger.
It can’t possibly be that. Have you read any of those old magazines?
This is why gender affirming care needs to be fully covered by the universal healthcare system.
Play the system, be unemployed
They have always been those who woke among us, for those who choose to see them
For any eggs out there, they do remove your testicles (bless), but the rest of it is much more like a magical girl transformation than a removal. All the blood vessels and nerves and skin gets preserved and it gets shuffled around into the positions your brain expects them to be in.
into the positions your brain expects them to be in
This part is not exactly true. The different tissues are not mapped one-to-one to their homologues, simply because the geometry and proportions are quite different.
Actually, I got a penectomy! 🔪🍆
I’m nonbinary and I got genital nullification surgery. I have no genitals now.
So it’s ok to refer to sex change as lopping off the dick and cutting off the balls? I would assume that’s pretty offensive. TIL, I guess.
I think the men are supposed to be a little ignorant in this. But also, what’s okay heavily depends on the setting
I thought suggesting that sex change operation consist of chopping of the dick without anesthesia goes beyond being a little ignorant but who am I to say? If people agree it’s funny and not offensive then I was wrong, that’s it.
So it’s ok to refer to gender-affirming surgery as sex change? I would assume that’s pretty offensive. TIL, I guess.
The only innacurate part is that it was “months” later, not years.
This was back in the days when a “common” way to transition was to travel to Thailand and do several major surgeries.
Which seems to stem from the idea that you transition only via surgery, not HRT. IDK if they even had HRT in the 80s, though.
They had it in the 1960s for sure. Candy Darling got it, for example.
