You'll almost never catch me out agreeing with Ed Morrissey, but in a crazy world like ours, anything can happen. So, yes, he has in fact detected an instance of straight-up misogyny:
Playboy likes to claim that it prints pictures of naked women as a means to empower them. Uh-
huh. It
seems that Playboy and Hugh Hefner only like to empower women to the
extent that they’ll take off their clothes, but when they open their
mouths and have an opinion … well, then it’s time to roll out the
demonization. They have a new feature on the website that features —
and I’m not making this up —
conservative women they’d like to “hate-f**k” (link NSFW):
Playboy has taken down the article, as well they should have. But you can get a flavor of this "humor" article from what Morrissey excerpts:
Obama promised us the dream of post-partisanship—a cuckoo land where
party affiliation and factional animosity were forgotten. Turn on cable
news or open any newspaper, however, and you’ll quickly discover that
the dream has yet to materialize. But there is a way to reach across
the aisle without letting principles fall by the wayside. We speak,
naturally, of the hate [f**k]. We may despise everything these women
represent, but goddammit they’re hot. Let the healing begin.
Bite me.
I myself despise everything the concept of the "hate fuck" represents, and anyone who goes around thinking "hate fuck" jokes are funny is not on my "side." This is sexism in its rawest, most brutal form. Jezebel has a further rundown of what was in the disappeared article, which was written by somebody named Guy Cimbalo, who appears to have once blogged for Maxim, and from a desultory Googling, may best be classified as a tedious unfunny generic hipster douchebag.
