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Women’s rights leader, political activist and former undercover Playboy Bunny Gloria Steinem is calling for a boycott of NBC’s new show, “The Playboy Club.
Steinem, 77, says the show, which is set in the first Playboy Club in Chicago, is demeaning to women. (Well, duh.)
“Clearly ‘The Playboy Club’ is not going to be accurate,” she tells Reuters. “It was the tackiest place on earth. It was not glamorous at all. It normalizes a passive dominant idea of gender. So it normalizes prostitution and male dominance. ... I just know that over the years, women have called me and told me horror stories of what they experienced at the Playboy Club and at the Playboy Mansion.”
Back in ’63 when she went on the down-low to write a magazine piece about New York’s Playboy Club, Steinem says, “One of the things they had to change because of my expose was that they required all the Bunnies, who were just waitresses, to have an internal exam and a test for venereal disease. I hope people boycott [‘The Playboy Club’]. It’s just not telling the truth about the era.”
Meanwhile, executives for the show, which debuts Sept. 19 and is already being slammed by anti-porn groups, call the series a “really fun soap opera” that’s “all about empowering these women to be whatever they want to be.”
Yes, while the execs line their pockets with this “Man Men” wannabe.