(Hard to believe there was a time when I thought this particular blog feature had had its day…)
So GQ interviewed Hugh Hefner’s son Marston. It’s a pretty good read. A couple of choice bits:
Hefner himself gets interviewed as part of the story:
“But did you ever sit Marston down and do the whole birds-and-bees thing?
He shakes his head.
Did you ever try to explain the fact that, just after the separation, you started dating seven blond women?
‘Not really. What is there to say?’
There was never any conversation about monogamy or marriage?
‘What kind of conversation would that be?’
What kind of signal does that send?
‘I think the signal that it sends, quite frankly, which the boys liked, was that instead of somebody replacing mama, I dated a bunch of girls.'”
Later, Marston talks about his taste in women:
“The ones I find attractive are brunet, blue eyes, and that’s about it. An intelligent woman that I can have a conversation with.… That centerfold in the magazine probably wouldn’t be my girlfriend, because I wouldn’t find her attractive. I don’t care about fake boobs if the girl has a good personality, but most girls with fake boobs I don’t find attractive—because of why they got the fake boobs in the first place.”
[Via Goldenfiddle.]
Hef is right in that boys don’t want mama to be replaced. But they don’t want to see dad dating a bunch of girls, either.
I had the misfortune of dozing off while watching the Soup on E! and waking up during that dismal show about Hefner and his ‘roommates.’ Blech. In my estimation he has gone from bad to bad/sad to sad. Just plain pathetic. But…it is an honest look at where the Playboy philosophy leads – degradation all around.
That kid’s eyes are so sad.
Funny how you can read a short blurb about a family and point to at least five concrete ways that the parents are destroying the child.
A naked picture of mom in the library? That’s nice…
I think this profile was fascinating.
Here is another interesting commentary by the daughter of famous feminist novelist Alice Walker (author of the color Purple). Clearly Rebecca Walker has “issues” with her mother, but like Marston Hafner she seems to grasp some essential truths about life and love that her self-absorbed parent did not:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1021293/How-mothers-fanatical-views-tore-apart.html
The truth will out, as they say…