Prometheus 6

Playboy's attack on Michelle Malkin
The blogosphere's reaction to a Playboy writer's love-hate fantasies about conservative women

In the latest sign that Playboy "should just fold up and go away," said Bonnie Erbe in U.S. News & World Report, the magazine's website recently posted an article containing a list of conservative women "the author said men would like to, er, have sex with but hate at the same time." The "disgusting, sexist" article, which Playboy has taken down, insulted upstanding conservative women—although it's hard to get incensed about the inclusion of the "venomous" Michelle Malkin.

Imagine the outrage, said Chip Hanlon in The Huffington Post, if Playboy's article, "So Right It's Wrong," had involved wanting to "hate f***" not a conservative blogger like Michelle Malkin "but someone on the Left." Anyone genuinely "dedicated to the empowerment of women" should be offended by this lame, "rancid" drivel.

I have a problem...I see my opinon of people when I look at them. It's something I noticed in elementary school. So the first time I saw Michelle Malkin's picture, I was like, "Damn! Hottie!" Then I read the piece the picture hovered over. Now I swear evey physical flaw she has sticks out like Ann Coulter's adam's apple.

I can't have sex with someone I don't like. So I can't imagine writing, or reading, such an article.

But of course Playboy is sexist. So I find it a bit amusing that those who threatened to boycott the magazine if they didn't pull the story have outed themselves as reader, and hence somewhat sexist themselves.

Playboy, being as old, venerable and wrinkled as the Republican base, should have realized who their audience is before posting the article. That's what I say...