I have always said "trans people aren't too sensitive you just aren't funny."
not the best choice of words but yeah, it's not a "one joke" at least
I think that was the wokest way it was discussed in the 80's. Like, still not good per say but honestly pretty impressive that the nomenclature is the best for the time(I'm stunned they didn't misgender her) and humor people are still catching up to.
Considering the source and the time it is all you can realistically ask for tbh
doubt heffner actually wrote this bit. he just rolled around in cash in the grotto like scrooge mcduck while the magazine ran itself
This is basically it. Playboy's writers were essentially unsupervised, which is why in its golden age it had a lot of legitimately good articles/interviews alongside the softcore porn.
Hefner was a gross sex creep but he was actually fairly progressive on LGBT stuff. He hired a lot of gay writers during a time when being openly gay got you blacklisted.
During the 80's, Hefner and Larry Flynt did more for the american left than chomsky did.