Camille Paglia on Hugh Hefner's Legacy, Trump's Masculinity and Feminism's Sex Phobia

Morality aside, I read this and walked away thinking she nailed it. Keep in mind that Hugh Hefner and Play Boy spanned some very turbulent years in our recent history. His impact was more on men and how they could evolve,

"Hefner re-imagined the American male as a connoisseur in the continental manner, a man who enjoyed all the fine pleasures of life, including sex. Hefner brilliantly put sex into a continuum of appreciative response to jazz, to art, to ideas, to fine food. This was something brand new. Enjoying fine cuisine had always been considered unmanly in America. Hefner updated and revitalized the image of the British gentleman, a man of leisure who is deft at conversation — in which American men have never distinguished themselves — and with the art of seduction, which was a sport refined by the French."

Hefner was not a hypocrite in fact i like this pull quote which is really noteworthy when talking about feminism and Gloria Steinem:

"I hold against Steinem her utter, shameless hypocrisy during the Bill Clinton scandal. After promoting sexual harassment guidelines, which I had also supported since the 1980s, Steinem waved away one of the worst cases of sexual harassment violation that can ever be imagined — the gigantic gap of power between the President of the United States and an intern! All of a sudden, oh, no, it was all fine, it was “private.” What rubbish! That hypocrisy by partisan feminist leaders really destroyed feminism for a long time."

I remember Hefner railing away at the blatant hypocrisy of the feminist movement and its leadership when it came to Bill Clinton and the whole Monica Lewinsky affaire. It was one of his brakes from the liberal ideology and Democrats.

Another quote which is telling:

"There are all kinds of complex currents in men’s relationship to women that feminism refuses to acknowledge. ..... I think feminism is wildly wrong when it portrays men as the oppressor, when in fact men, as I have argued in my books, are always struggling for identity against the enormous power of women."

Instead we are saddled with a PC world where men's rights are trampled and false rape stories in collages abound.