Hopping Madness

So I was reading the news the other day and I saw something about Hugh Hefner opening a Playboy Club in London and the outrage surrounding it.

I've never really understood Playboy. It's supposed to be a little men's club, but.. all of the merchandise is aimed at, and bought by women. I shudder when I see teenage girls with the 'bunny' naval rings or bikinis. Not just because they're Playboy brands but because it is a brand. Why do you have to keep buying things from people who are already stinking rich? Now they're just going to put the price up again so you can feel snooty about owning it while you line their pockets.
It is pretty bad when the tweenagers want to buy it all up. That bunny gets stamped on everything sellable and sometimes it's getting into kid's hands in the form of stationary, pillows etc.

I guess I've never really understood the 'I wanna be a page three model/bikini girl/Playboy bunny' mindset. You're confident in your body, great. It wouldn't make me confident if the only thing about me that interested people is the way I look in swimwear. There's a million other bikini models and runway models and dancers.. what makes you want to be just one drop in an ocean of T&A?

Understanding the Bunny is a weird mindset, pandering to an old man's wet dream while pretending to care about him so you get your own reality show and fortune. What bugs me about Heffy is that he keeps talking about sexual revolutions and the liberation of women, and I daresay he has had a hand in (and on) that.

The constant media image is still the dyed blonde, thin, surgically enhanced, heavily made up and tanned Barbie doll simpering around him. If they're all so liberated, why do they want to live like clones? Sharing a partner, one that's probably triple your age with several other girls who look just like you doesn't sound liberated to me.

I'm not saying that's the entire story but you have to admit, we see a lot of that happening. I don't see how anyone could be content to date someone who tells the world they have a number one girlfriend, oh yeah, and as well as you he's dating your twin sister. Or six other girls. While married. Again. Or, again. While denouncing monogamy.

I would hate to try to explain that weed of a family tree.

A lot of dudes and even some women applaud this as sexual freedom, and say it's the fact that it's his company has earned him the right to do whatever the hell he wants. Is it because he's so rich that no one really seems to judge him as the cradle snatcher he is? If this story came out with an average Joe as the culprit - we'd all be baying for his head to be chopped off.

To be honest, yeah, I do think that the club is stupid. Gentleman's club? Whatever. I've seen too many ordinary waitresses sexually harassed without having more run around in skimpy clothes so that when it happens to them it's 'okay' because surely they must have been asking for it. We have enough strip clubs without one more trying to make it classy.

Yes, women can choose their own work and if this suits them, then fine. I just think it sucks that I can study and work my ass off while all you do is get naked or date a sugar daddy. I'm not anti-sex workers in any way, but guys like Hugh Hefner continue to make it more attractive to be arm candy than anything. To live a life all about partying and being upper class while scheduling yourself around his other girlfriends.

This doesn't mean that all of the bunnies are airheads, but the millions of women that try to follow in their footsteps are going to do nothing to that glass ceiling. That is not in the female gender's best interest, Heffy. You've helped spawn a horde much like the fame obsessed over sexualised tacky reality show contestant race. So don't you dare tell me that you being sleazy is helping women when all you do is show them how easily they can be paid for, used and then replaced with a younger model.

Not to be bitchy or anything, but he's also quite ugly and I'm sick of hearing updates on his sex life. Choking on a sex toy? Shouldn't you be over your midlife crisis at this age?