Oh my fucking god 😭
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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
That was sort of the beauty of being independent and uncouth. They didn’t have to worry about offending major brands/sponsorships because they weren’t beholden to typical ad agencies to begin with.
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
The comics were great too
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
The trans experience inherently has so many absurd, objectively funny aspects about it. We’re really missing out on some really good comedy because of transphobia
Yeah unfortunately 😭 just gotta stock up on the jokes for the real ones - or until the topic climate hopefully eases up in the future. Have a good library of gold at the ready!
Ooo got any for the crowd?
Ooh I have a joke I picked up from an old bastard of a pastor years ago. For quick context I’m pretty sure the man was mildly insane but he hated prosperity preachers so take that as you will. So anyways here’s the joke.
In many ways mankind is inferior to God but in many ways we have outstripped the creator. For example God created a woman from a man, but mankind can do that with but with scalpal and medicine we also didn’t have to ask a man to marry an animal first we just asked the dude what he wanted. Turns out he is she.
Look I said the old bastard was mildly insane, a comedian he was not. Also I’m pretty sure I’m butchering the joke a bit. Regardless the but of the joke is clearly the god of the Bible, so you can only punch up.
They had a shockingly respectful interview with Wendy Carlos right after she came out. They were generally a very socially liberal publication that used porn to fund the writing and the platforming of more controversial and radical topics. My mom was a subscriber despite not being attracted to women.
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.
Yeah, but it still really hurts when they sever your “excess” wages
Actually, I got a penectomy! 🔪🍆
I’m nonbinary and I got genital nullification surgery. I have no genitals now.
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.
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.
The company and its founder are problematic, but not only have they had good journalism, Playboy has always skewed towards progressive socials issues from what I’ve seen. Their first trans centerfold (that they/we know of) was in 1991.
The first trans woman in playboy was in September 1991. The first trans centerfold was not until November 2017.
Oh shit I didn’t know they’d had a trans centerfold, I knew they were progressive, but I didn’t know the progressiveness ever extended into the porn part
What exactly is a centerfold?
Edit: I know about the existence of magazine posters, I just didn’t know that term, English isn’t my first language
Hey, at least young people have ‘zines again!
One of my local libraries has a little shelf set aside for local zines. It’s so fucking cool, I’m glad they’re making a comeback.
my blood just ran cold
The big folded up poster in the center of the magazine, practically the “main attraction” of the whole thing
When making magazines you’d print long sheets of paper on both sides, lay them together in the right order, staple down the middle, and then fold the whole thing afterwards to make a booklet.
This means that all of your two-page spreads would be on the front of one page, and the back of the next page. All except the “centrefold”, where the staples were, that was printed on one continuous sheet of paper. It would have been the bottom of the stack, before you folded it into a book.
This meant you could pull that single sheet out and it would essentially become a poster, and so many magazines would print big images in the centerfold with that in mind. It also helps that the center of a binding like that it is easiest to flip to, it’s where the pages naturally want to return, so it helped to put your biggest attraction there.
If you’ve ever seen the trope / gag where someone is looking at a magazine, and then they turn the magazine sideways to oggle it, chances are the joke is that they’re looking at the centerfold, and turning it sideways because this particular image is sideways because the poster is printed to be hung up in portrait orientation.
So anyway, because it was such a main attraction for a magazine, and in particular was a kind of artifact that might live on a wall beyond the normal life of the rest of the magazine, it was considered very high status for a model to be featured even once as the centerfold.
Stolen from TV Tropes:
That cigarette centerfold is hilarious, what’s that from?!
Oh, you probably picked it up, but to be absolutely clear, referring to a person as “a centerfold” is basically short for “a model featured in a picture featured in the centerfold of a magazine”. Which, again, was a high honour in the field.
An early 80s hit song by J. Geils Band.
I do believe it’s the name of a stand in Jojos. (/s)
EDIT: Oh wait. It’s the user’s name. Not the stand.
Like the other person pointed out, what it is is literally in the name.
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?
Play the system, be unemployed
This is why gender affirming care needs to be fully covered by the universal healthcare system.
That’s not the joke. The joke is getting paid less for being a woman
The more women you allow to transition, the less you need to pay your work force! (please ignore trans men, they’re used to being ignored)
No one ever asks how’s Waldo
They have always been those who woke among us, for those who choose to see them
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
You know how when one guys gets hit in the balls, another guy in a 1km radius also feels it? I think they were more so trying to just mke conversation based on that while making it more lighthearted for their friend in support of equalising her operation to the normalest good thing she could’ve been doing (for herself) “but had to get hit in the balls”, while also along the way expressing curiosity in the procedure.
- I’m likely overthinking tho and may be spoiled by a couple of amazing close friends
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.
