Playboy Scorned For Hateful Attack On Conservative Pundits (And The Rest Of Today's Scritti Politti)

Circumstances conspired against me doing what Chip Hanlon advises on these pages today: heap a ton of scorn on Playboy Magazine and writer Guy Cimbalo for penning an utterly repellent and damnable attack on female conservative pundits yesterday. However, I doubt I can improve upon the critique penned by the ever-reliable Megan Carpentier at Jezebel over this matter:

Occasionally, we try to prove or disprove the trope that men read Playboy for the incisive articles. Today, having read Guy Cimbalo's epic work on the 10 conservative women he'd like to hate-fuck, we're guessing not too many men even care.

Because it's not as if Cimbalo does anything in his piece but slag on these women for having the audacity to be attractive, conservative, opinionated and loud about those opinions. In other words, if he didn't agree with us mouthy liberal broads, he wouldn't want to fuck us either, and apparently prefers his women quiet and agreeable. And that - no matter what your politics are - is just gross.

Playboy has since taken it down. As it happens, Politico has apparently pulled down an article as well: an astonishingly tone-deaf piece from Anne Schroeder that, well...SORT OF BURIED THE LEDE by failing to mention anything beyond the fact that some female pundits had made an innocuous list.

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Chip Hanlon: This Playboy Article Deserves Scorn from the Left

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Comments

[USpace]

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Neo-Liberalism is a mental disease. Conservative women are HOTtest!

[InstantDogma]

We are becoming a nation of gerbils.
It's called satire. Here's a clue:
Read some William Burroughs.

[snapshot1940]

There are articles in Playboy?

[corymac]

The Playboy article is disgusting and horrid....but I gotta say, for the most part, conservative women are INCREDIBLY HOT!!! Why is that? And the article didn't even mention babes like Gretchen Carlson, who is a curvey delight, Monica Crowley, Margaret Hoover, and of course, current Miss California and future Fox News anchor, Carrie Prejean. I have the utmost respect for all of these women including the women on the Playboy article's list....but I would be lying if I said I wouldn't like to roll around in the hay for just a little while with any one of the ladies (except for maybe Peggy Noonan).

[jackything]

A hateful attack on hateful people? Go figure! What's good for the goose, etc.

[PollyTics]

The Playboy article has nothing to do with political temperament, but with out in out MISOGYNY, plain and simple. IF this article actually does result in an increase in sales for the quickly dissolving magazine, then we are in worse shape than I had ever anticipated...

[takeyourballandgohome]

Wow, she's so pretty. And, such class.

[mikey2]

People still buy/read Playboy? Why? What a yawn!

[VivaZapata]

Expect sales to rise.

[kjstjohn]

In isolation, the Playboy article might seem extremely funny to someone who does not like these conservative women.

Then you start thinking about:

how it would feel if conservatives did this to liberal women;
how things like this pollute societal attitudes towards women and sex in general;
how things like this are painful to women who have been victims of sex cr!mes;
whether there are weak-minded degener@tes out there who would act on the article.

All in all, it is NOT funny.

[Gregor53]

I take it you have never read some of these innocent poor Conservative ladies books, such as "The Godless Liberals" and "How to Talk to a Liberal if you Must". If you can not take the heat, then get out of it. And I do believe that your statement is ironic...liberal women have been verbally attacked also. You may find it is by the poor Conservative ladies you are concerned about here.

In general, it is not about Right or Left. Conservative or Liberal. It is about Hate and how comments can impact others when believed by someone we might suggest is not so stable.

[1088]

If they cannot stand the heat, get out of the Kitchen!

[AnnfromCA]

Sexism is still alive and well and even applauded by blogger boyz.

[QuietLightTraveler]

Oh yes, and then there is Palin. She would never have generated so much attention in the news if it were not for her looks. Looks are an important asset for politicians. If the facade looks good and they are ambitious, they could be successful, more so, probably,than in other fields. It's no coincidence that actors frequently find a second career in politics. If you are a good pretender, you might be wise to look into politics as a career.

[BabblingBrooks]

That's true. But the principle of least effort, which I heartily adhere to, means that one should look for the candidate with the most reasons to vote for her.

I prefer a beautiful wife, for that matter.

[ladyoftheisland]

Sarah Palin was on the ticket first and foremost because she is stunning - who better to motivate the bigots who hated Obama but couldn't put down the beer bottle and go vote for John McCain.

[unhhockey]

I knew Megyn Kelly was a far right conservative.

[wdw505]

a little right of center but how you state she is far right i don't know ......wow.....if you think she is far right you will need another name for the people to the right of her.......

[BabblingBrooks]

Hooray for Megyn! She's logical. Which MEANS she's conservative. Ann Coulter was correct.

[RoloTomassi]

There's nothing logical about being conservative, as such is a crippling mental disorder.

[toosinbeymen]

Whoa, I may have to start reading Playboy - for the articles, of course.