The Wall Street Journal has a story about how Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
The reader comments are interesting. One reader disputes that there is any “correlation, positive or negative, between beauty and intelligence. Some beautiful women are intelligent and some are not.” This is at variance with “Intelligence and physical attractiveness” (Kanazawa 2011, Intelligence), which found a positive correlation.
Here’s a response to a commenter attacking Madison for being a bimbo:
Actually she is quite an intelligent person. I heard her do an interview with a business news site two years or so ago. I was very impressed with her performance. She’s articulate, can think on her feet (or her back, depending, I guess on the needs of the moment) and is not afraid of any questions. Unlike interviews that the news media does with Hillary Clinton, the interview was not rehearsed, the questions were not presented to her in advance so her staff could prepare canned answers, and the interviewer did not fawn all over her George Stephanopolus-style.
Yes, she used her assets. Why not? Do we really think that the offspring of rich, powerful politicians and mega rich media moguls really shot right to the top of daddy’s empire because of their brains and business ability?
Andrew Cuomo would be parking cars for a living if not for daddy.
What about the general idea of Americans being more interested in the memoir of a rich geezer’s young girlfriend than in The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
In some ways, entertainment today is like the Roman amphitheaters in days of old, when entertainment had to become more extreme to keep the citizens engaged.
Has anyone who reads this blog also read this book? What is there to say about Ms. Madison’s bestseller?
Related:
- child support cashflow from a brief encounter at the Playboy Mansion (see the California chapter of Real World Divorce for the formula)
- comment on NBC News article on Bill Cosby at the Playboy Mansion:
If you are a success out West, get ready for women to pretend to be your soul mate, until you don’t fall for their lies and trickery. Then, since their Plan A failed at you getting them pregnant so they can live off child support for the rest of their lives, Plan B kicks in: the rape and abuse allegations. The goal is to get the same amount of money but by different means. I had five women attempt to scam me after moving out West. Of the five, two were psychopaths — with children from many different fathers! All living off over $10,000 a month in child support.
I think you will find the overlap between the readership of your blog and the readers of Down the Rabbit Hole to be very small.
It says something about the decline of America that this book is ahead of serious works such as The Wright Brothers book on the bestseller lists. Incidentally it was very funny that the article mentioned Rabbit Hole’s leading position on the WSJ Bestseller List, a list that I’ve never heard of and never expect to hear of again except in the pages of the WSJ. Also that the book was published by a different Murdoch affiliate. Was the TV show on a Murdoch owned network also? In modern America it’s all about the product placement. Increasingly , Idiocracy is becoming not a cautionary tale but a recipe book for the future.
In one of the reviews that I read, Ms. Madison reaches out to “Kendra”, one of her co-stars on the reality show after the show is over (by that most modern medium, text message – whatever happened to calling people on the phone?) and her former colleague rebuffs her advances. Kendra explains to her, that despite the appearances of closeness on the show, that they were never “friends” and that it was “all just work.” We used to have a name for women who slept with men as a profession, but apparently this is now a respectable line of work in America. Given the lousy job market, it’s surprising that even more young women (and men) don’t turn to sex work as a means of support.
I did not read the book but I have, for tax purposes, shot many models in many countries of Eastern Europe and several models in LA including a few Playboy models. Working in Europe, I was amazed at how forthright, intelligent and well-educated the models in Eastern Europe were — many had college degrees in fields like IT or mechanical engineering or were in college majoring in difficult subjects and spoke 3-4 languages. Many could do their own makeup and had no problem posing expressively enough for internet publication standards yet I consider them to be completely professional, ie professional models and nothing more, not looking for some pepsi drinking octegenarian midwesterner with a father who was a sex offender to pay for their nose job in exchange for “all just work” “orgy nights” on tuesdays. I never had much success with US-based models even at 3x the pay of Eastern Europe. It’s hard work and there are many easier avenues…