Let's talk about the non-reaction to the explosive revelations in the series "Secrets of Playboy."

[Sympthsical]

44. It'd be like if Bryan Singer were arrested tomorrow

It's been known for going on twenty years he's an ephebophile who invited underaged boys to parties, allegedly plied them with drugs and raped them, and that he has a whole cadre of individual Hollywood figures floating around in that orbit. But he's been more or less dumped from Hollywood - for his drug use affecting projects rather than, you know, the raping thing.

Everyone knows. If there was a documentary about it tomorrow, it might get some slight media commentary for about a week, but there's almost nothing anyone could say about it that would have people going, "Bryan Singer did what?! This is very shocking!" Barbara Walters told Corey Feldman to STFU, and she went to the grave an icon.

Playboy is similar. The story's been culturally digested over time. And it's less culturally relevant, because Playboy stopped being a thing in the zeitgeist before Millennials even arrived. I'm in my 40s, and Playboy just wasn't a thing in my peer group. Mainly because the Internet showed up.

It doesn't make what happened to those women any less horrible or traumatic or reprehensible. They will be living with it for the rest of their lives. But you're asking why modern media culture, and by extension social media, aren't giving it weight and attention. And those are the answers.

1. Playboy means nothing to people 45 and under, so most of them are not particularly interested in discussing it.
2. Everyone already knew or at least strongly suspected all this.
3. Hefner's dead. No one's going to be dragging him out for a crazy as shit interview like R. Kelly.

The most enduring image of Hefner and Playboy to my generation is that gross old man who lived in a mansion full of dog shit while women pretended to be into him for money and exposure and who - to absolutely no one's surprise, at all - felt exploited by it.

It's a known story. Even if people never heard all the exact details. The only thing left, if such a thing is possible, is for the women affected to get justice and/or find peace and healing. If there are people to arrest, arrest them.

I think if Hefner were alive and criminal proceedings could be pursued against him, it'd be a bigger story and elicit more commentary.