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I received a lovely playboy watch for my birthday and it got me thinking... The playboy logo is basically brand advertising for the porno magazine. As a bisexual woman i have no problem with wearing a playboy watch, as i'd happily "read" both playboy and playgirl magazines. My question is though is the play boy logo simply a harmless logo/ fashion statement or are supposedly straight women who wear said logo essentially hypocrites? Advertising for a product that they themselves would not use and may or may not agree with? Just a thought...
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I find it really chavvy and to be honest, it wouldn't surprise me if many of the women who wear the label knew what Playboy actually means.
I don't know 100% where I stand on the whole porn industry as I'm not really a voyeuristic person and I find it more symbollic of objectification. I don't really picture any decent people watching it but I'm sure they do.
I'm a decent, well educated, law abiding citizen and i watch porn!
Indeed! A friend of mine used to go on and on about having the skin around her tiddy bleached a la many porn stars, I was shocked.
I think the Playboy brand is awful, and that's purely in aesthetic terms. There's a girl round my way with a Playboy Ford Fiesta and I think it is the most hilarious and hideous thing I've ever seen. I have to laugh at all the girls who got Playboy bunny tattoos a few years back, too. Obviously I hate the fact that they have branded themselves with a logo, but basically I just think it looks fucking cheap and passé in the extreme.
Out of morbid interest, what does it look like? Is there a big logo etc?
I SO wish I could say it has big fluffy ears and a tail Dumb and Dumber-style; but it just has a HUGE silver logo on the bonnet and the front doors and a playboy numberplate. Looks shite.
definately!
when i see a girl with a playboy bag, i think of how much it must have cost and how many nice bags are out there that they could have chosen instead
personal taste i guess, i just associate it with chavs
as for IWS's comment about it being no different than a man u shirt or a ferari shirt, I disagree.....you wear a man u shirt because you support them, you wear a ferrari shirt because you`d like one...by wearing playboy, you're kind of funding something that most straight girls probably dont agree with/use/want (porn aimed at males)
it doesnt arse me like, just puttin my view across
hope that makes sense
but it still creeps me out to see elementary school girls wearing it.
I think wearing Playboy gear shows a lack of taste and/or intelligence, but if people want to look like a thick tart that's their choice. Trying to ban it will just make it as successful as French Connection UK's "amusing" puns.
It looks shite, what can I say?
Have you never seen a group of girls on a hen night?
You really think they put that much thought into it? I reckon they just like the symbol.
Yes, and its amoung the scariest things I've seen in my life.