Interesting, yes, but also somewhat sensationalistic. My only quibble with the first section was that Mrs. Wheeler repeatedly notes that "the majority of domestic violence victims are women," without going deeper to discover relatively-easily-available information (Census Bureau's National Crime Victimization Survey) that verifies that the
vast majority of domestic violence in relationships is initiated by women, so much so that the most violent relationships on average are lesbian ones. Women probably aren't even majority victims, because of men's reluctance to report being abused by women, but even if so it's only because they are less strong than men and end up in many cases experiencing the brunt of the physical damage in a violent altercation.
However, the whole Playboy girls current collection of Hugh Hefner exposes is part of a media blitz representing these women's latest attempt to monetize their pop culture status. I'm not defending Hefner, but in the main this is just an attempt on their part to entirely deflect the blame for the choices they made in their lives; it's funny, even in the
Wall Street Journal, . . .
In today’s hookup culture the sexual playing field is not even, but it suits men’s interests to pretend that it is. Women are entitled to be angry.
www.wsj.com
. . . the narrative of it being the "sexual revolution" that created these twisted outcomes.
Conveniently, these programs and their media press kits ignore postmodern feminism's primary driving role in creating the outcomes these women have experienced. We just have to accept their word that everything they did with Hugh Hefner and other men in their Playboy world was against their will, as if they just jumped straight from being obedient, submissive, virginal choir girls into the bed of Hugh Hefner in a compound that one can only get into with a formal invitation. Oh, you poor thing: "One of the other girls said, 'Daddy, do you want to get the new girls? And then he was on top of me." And, to think, just a half hour before that, Hefner was picking up Holly Madison from Sunday School!
Let's not forget that
women demanded the freedom to have all the choices available to men, but now they want to act like they had no responsibility for accepting the ramifications of that freedom of choice.
We have to be vigilant about avoiding falling into the snare of condemning an already-despicable man for post-mortem accusations made by people seeking to profit from those accusations. Unfortunately, it's all too common for women to lie about what happened to them sexually, and this man has no way to face his accusers. It's tempting to use this to score points for the conservative, religious sides of the coin, but be careful whom you ally yourself with. #MeToo, Rose McGowan, Colin Kaipernick, these Playboy models -- what do they all have in common? Had they truly had courage, they would have exposed the things they claim were going on
before profiting from putting up with them, instead of waiting until they'd long passed their career peaks.