{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Do you have hot takes coming for #RIPHEFNER, or would that be too much of a rehash of something for everyone?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/165993272918/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: Do you have hot takes coming for #RIPHEFNER, or would that be too much of a rehash of something for everyone?</div>\n<p>His remaining plotlines fizzled in the \u201890s with the abandonment of \u201cobscenity\u201d as a conceptual category and the Internet changing everything; people had been putting out past-tense takes on his role in American culture for years.</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s a shame people focus on the magazine and forget the Playboy Clubs, there\u2019s something important there: Hef wasn\u2019t the one to invent the idea of a club where nubile waitresses in tight slinky outfits served executives, with the suggestion their career path continued to \u201cwife\u201d or at least \u201cmistress\u201d</p>\n\n<p>That\u2019s a cocktail bar! You know, \u201c\u266b <i>you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you\u2026</i> \u266b\u201d (and what do you think finance bro bottle service lounges are today?)</p>\n\n<p>It makes a point that Hef didn\u2019t introduce the idea of women as consumable accoutrements to the good life, he just brought it into public view and into regular order.</p>\n\n<p>And really, looking at today\u2019s consensus: \u201cHe tore down an old order he saw as rotten and doomed, and replaced it with a new order that was no less a power-driven hierarchy but with himself and people like him at the top. Then he retired to his chateau to indulge his aristocratic affectations and cavort with celebrities, courtiers, and courtesans.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Guy should be a reactionary ICON</p>"}