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Originally Posted by Glinda
I don't recall hearing about Hef being a shitty human being, or seeing news stories about former girlfriends writing ugly tell-alls about his behavior.
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Jennifer Saginor
Izabella St. James
Kendra Wilkinson
Holly Madison
Dorothy Stratten
Gloria Steinem
And those are just the ones who could write a coherent sentence. I'm not absolving the girls of their own responsibility for their situation. And there are certainly some who understood what they were getting into, took it for the career boost it was, and successfully moved on to bigger and better things. I'm not saying he was a brutal rapist or anything. But the glamour was a lie, and the emotional abuse was real, not to mention the pressure to get high and have sex with his friends or else risk being banished from his good graces.
He fought for LGBT rights when no one else was. He fought for women's rights way before a lot of other people (with the exception of the women living in his home.) He wasn't all bad. But like anyone with a public brand to maintain, the truth is always uglier than the Instagram photos.