WI Hugh Hefner preferred petite redheads with freckles?

[Akiyama]

I was wondering why 90% of the women in men's magazines look like Barbie dolls - blonde hair, big breasts, long legs, flawless skin, skinny etc.

My theory is that it is all down to Hugh Hefner, who had a thing about blondes. All the Playboy bunnies and centrefolds were blonde, and that set the tone for everything that followed.

I submit that if Hugh had preferred petite redheads with freckles the world would be a very different place. Slappers would dye their hair red instead of blonde. Since so many dumb females would end up with red hair we would have "dumb redhead" jokes. Girls would apply make up to make themselves appear freckled. Female pop stars would all be short redheads. High heels would be a thing of the past, like corsets or bustles. Really tall girls would have dangerous operations to make their legs shorter. Scottish girls would be the sexiest in the world.

 

[Landshark]

Really tall girls would have dangerous operations to make their legs shorter.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Matt]

hmmmm redheads are the sexuh..


I have nothing more to contribute

 

[fortyseven]

Intriguing. When I saw the beginning of the thread i was thinking it might end with men Anyway, Heff's the direct descendant of a guy who came over on the Mayflower .

 

[David S Poepoe]

Now this is an alternative to alternative history.

I would consider it likely that other "men's magazines" would still rise to fill any gaps in various niches of adult magazine circulation. (Thats sounds suspicious) I would think of Playboy more as the first of many adult magazines, which in order to secure various markets will offer photographs of women other than petite redheads.

I'm not quite sure how prevalent the 'dumb blonde' stereotype is worldwide, for I would guess that it was strictly American in origin and that its been exported via our movies and television programs. It clearly predates Hefner, just think about how many movies with Marily Monroe and others there are.

 

[DocOrlando]

Nothing short of ASBs would be able to change the fact that blondes have more dumb.

And Scottish girls already ARE the sexiest in the world.

 

[Linkwerk]

WI Hugh Hefner preferred petite redheads with freckles?

Then my girlfriend would be way less depressed by pinup girls.

Also: does this mean rita hayworth is the marylin monroe of this TL?


FAKE EDIT: nah, our culture is too focused on the tallish blonde by the 1950's for hef to have any say in the matter.

 

[NHBL]

Bad idea...

If the "dumb blonde" jokes were replaced by "dumb redhead" jokes, I suspect there would be a LOT more people with black eyes after cracking jokes, judging from the redheads I know...

 

[Dave Howery]

nah... men have had a liking of big breasted blondes for a lot longer than Hefner has been around...

 

[robertp6165]

All the Playboy bunnies and centrefolds were blonde, and that set the tone for everything that followed.

That's a pretty untenable position. In point of fact, if you look at all the Playboy centerfolds going back to the beginning, the majority of them are not blonde at all, but brunette. There is a sprinkling of redheads, and some African-Americans and Asian Americans, too. Hefner realized that American men like their women in all shapes, sizes, and colours, and he gave his customers what they wanted.

 

[robertp6165]

Nothing short of ASBs would be able to change the fact that blondes have more dumb.

You wouldn't want to say that around my ex-wife. She was blonde, of course, and had her own version of the blonde joke.

Q: What's brown and red and lying in a ditch?

A: A brunette who told one too many blonde jokes.

 

[Flocculencio]

Petite redheads...mmmmm

Alyson Hannigan

 

[DocOrlando]

Damn you! I was just getting over Alyson H and here you go bringing her up again.

Could there be a backlash against Hitler's "Ideal Aryan Woman," which would lead to Celtic or Mediterranean beauties finding more favor in film and the media? (I'm not naive enough to believe that there'd be a huge push for African or Asian women, based on typical 50s anti-Black racism, and a similar distaste toward Asians (the common man wouldn't distinguish) as that directed against Aryans.

 

[Flocculencio]

Damn you! I was just getting over Alyson H and here you go bringing her up again.

BLASPHEMY! No one can get over Alyson Hannigan!!
Although petite blondes do have something going for them too- Kirsten Dunst

 

[aktarian]

Female pop stars would all be short redheads. High heels would be a thing of the past, like corsets or bustles. Really tall girls would have dangerous operations to make their legs shorter. Scottish girls would be the sexiest in the world.

You'd be surprised how many female pop start really are short.

 

[Hendryk]

I submit that if Hugh had preferred petite redheads with freckles the world would be a very different place. Slappers would dye their hair red instead of blonde.

I think the Western infatuation with tall blondes (which is increasingly shared by the rest of the world thanks to the exportation of "cultural"--ahem--products like Hollywood movies and porn web sites) predates Playboy. The roots may be in the 19th century, with the idealization of a certain type of female beauty by the late Romantics (paintings of the so-called "pre-Raphaelite" school are full of evanescent blondes).
This being said, I've never really shared that infatuation; before I started being into Asians, I thought redheads were, generally speaking, the better-looking ones. I did once have a tall blonde for a girlfriend (and she was American, too), but her hair color wasn't a factor one way or the other.
BTW, an anecdote: when my red-haired sister was living in Mexico, all the guys kept hitting on her. They seem to have a thing for pale redheads over there--perhaps because they have so few of them in the first place.

 

[Flocculencio]

They seem to have a thing for pale redheads over there--perhaps because they have so few of them in the first place.

I'm asian myself so I always joke with my friends that I like blondes and redheads because they're exotic

 

[Torqumada]

Damn you! I was just getting over Alyson H and here you go bringing her up again.

Alyson Hannigan and Jennifer Love Hewitt are going to be in a TV series on ABC with Ed O'neil.

Torqumada

 

[Doctor What]

Alyson Hannigan and Jennifer Love Hewitt are going to be in a TV series on ABC with Ed O'neil.

Alyson's going to be back on tv?

If there's going to be a lesbian scene between her and Hewitt I'm going to either die of a heart attack or drown on my own drool......

mmmmmmmm......lesbian redheads......

 

[aktarian]

mmmmmmmm......lesbian redheads......

Right, 10 letters.