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Is Playboy At All Relevent Anymore?
Playboy CEO: Nudity Could Completely Vanish From the Playboy BrandEntrepreneur
Kim Lachance Shandrow interviews Scott Flanders, the first Playboy Enterprises Inc. CEO not to be a family member. AOC has questioned more than once the relevance of Playboy in today’s world and not only because free nudity is rampant in our Internet world. but because the media space is full up with talented writers, photographers, bloggers and the sexually-opinionated. Playboy is forever associated with Hugh Hefner and Hefner brings a whole lotta baggage to today’s sexy media world.
Now boys will be boys … that reality may just be an eternal truth, based on just how many guy fashion bloggers find the one nudie shot in a fashion editorial and lead with it as an invite to page views. Women’s bodies have always been commodities in the world of men, and that won’t change. Plus, AOC joins a long list of women who enjoy a well-written, well-designed sexy magazine. To think that Playboy will ever compete with GQ or Esquire or Treats! or even a totally frat-boy cleaned-up Maxim is increasingly a tall order.
Hugh Hefner is stuck in a moment in time. This moment!
Bill Cosby Sued For Alleged Assault at Playboy Mansion NPR
Woman Claims Bill Cosby raped her and 12 Playboy bunnies Philadelphia Inquirer
Collective Wisdom at Gawker
Nick Denton Announces Collective Leadership for Gawker MediaNew York Observer
The inner circle of Gawker leadership will consist of seven managing partners, including Mr. Denton, who will assume the title of CEO. Heather Dietrick has been promoted from general counsel of Gawker Media to president, where she will act as Mr. Denton’s deputy. VP of business development Erin Pettrgrew, who Digiday labeled “the most important person at Gawker you’ve never heard of” in October, will take the position of chief strategy officer. As Mr. Denton announced earlier this month, Deadspin editor Tommy Craggs will be promoted to the newly created position of executive editor. Andrew Gorenstein will be promoted to president of Gawker Advertising, Scott Kidder will be chief operating officer and Tom Plunkett will be chief technology officer.
The newly installed team of managing partners will make decisions by consensus or majority vote.
A New Man in Town
Lumbersexuality and Its DiscontentsThe Atlantic
The lumberjack looms large in the American imagination. He has decked out pavilions at world’s fairs, been built to giant scale as a highway attraction, and his best representative, Paul Bunyan, is often cited as our greatest folk hero. But for all his symbolic power, he is a fairly new invention. The lumberjack, as we know him, only came onto the scene as a symbol of American manhood a little over a century ago, at a moment when American men were in desperate need of a hero.
Too Hot to Handle:
Men’s rights activist: Civilization fails when women and their vaginas are allowed in the workplace Raw Story
Angelina Jolie called ‘minimally talented spoiled brat’ in hacked Sony emails The Guardian
Much more to come on the subject of Mr. Big Scott Rudin
Beard Baubles: Decorate Your Beard This Christmas My Modern Met
This Christmas, why not decorate your beard? Each year, ad agencies send spectacularly crazy cards to their clients to show off their creativity. This year, Grey London decided to work with designers Mike Kennedy and Pauline Ashford to come up with a festive gift idea to feature in their cards. That’s how Beard Baubles was born. The designers were so happy with the results that they decided to sell the baubles for charity. All proceeds go to Beard Season, an Australian charity that encourages men to grow their beards in the winter to raise awareness of the disease melanoma. (“Your Beard Season mission is to convince as many people as you can to have a skin check.”)
