When was gloria steinem a playboy bunny

Immobile, the costumes were merely painful, but after five-hour shifts of serving customers, they revealed themselves as torture devices. Bunnies had to wear heels at least three inches high and corsets at least two inches too small everywhere except the bust, which came only with D-cups. The corsets were so tight a sneeze could literally break the zipper, a phenomenon Steinem witnessed during try-outs. The costume manager celebrated by immediately marking her costume to be tightened another two inches.

Bunnies had to go to great lengths to maintain the illusion of availability, fawning over the clientele in ways permitted by a script and pretending they were single even when outside of the club.

But then in , his secretary leaked a memo he penned in response to a feminist march on Playboy mansion: "What I'm interested in is the highly irrational, emotional, kookie sic trend that feminism has taken Though it helped an early-career Steinem establish her credentials as a reporter and a feminist, she regretted the piece for years after it ran, dismayed by a slew of offers to take on sexualized undercover roles and haunted by photos of herself in the Bunny costume, which had been taken during her brief time as an employee.

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Inside the Crystal Palace, a giant glass-and-iron hall designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, more than 10, exhibitors set up eight miles of tables. Technological wonders from around the world She returned an advance for a book contract to expand the idea, and at about the same time, rejected an assignment to expose high-end prostitution by posing as a call girl, an idea she found as insulting as it was frightening. For a long time, Steinem saw her 11 days as Bunny "Marie Ochs" hired under her grandmother's name and social security number as a huge career blunder.

It led to no serious new assignments and became her least-favored but often-invoked characterization. Table Bunnies, as they were called, toned legs by descending and ascending staircases, balancing trays full of drinks, and working double shifts to make up for low wages, all while wearing three-inch heels—and dodging wanton hands. Yet the athleticism required to work at the club routinely caused Bunnies to lose weight, and being too thin kept former Playmates from being selected for future photoshoots.

Pure artifice aided other Bunny staples.