“Once a Playmate, always a Playmate,” Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was fond of saying. To prove that “beauty is ageless, sex appeal is timeless, and exuberance is eternal,” the magazine invited seven of its Playmates back to recreate their iconic photos. To perfectly recreate the original images, the models wore the same attire (or lack thereof), posed in the same positions, and made the same alluring faces. The shoot took place in Chicago with photographers Ryan Lowry and Ben Miller.
Playmate Candace Collins saw the shoot as an opportunity to show that a woman’s spirit never fades. “I was thrilled and then terrified and then determined — determined to make this shoot something I would be proud of and also, in a way, let the world know that women of a certain age still have a lot of fight and spirit left in them long after their 20s disappear,” she said.
Renee Tenison, the first African-American woman to be named Playmate of the Year, returned for the new shoot, proud to see her fellow Playmates looking great decades after they first graced the pages of Playboy. “We are a very exclusive sisterhood, a sorority,” Tenison said. “And most of us, I’d have to say, look pretty great. We work at it. We are just a little older now.”
Photos courtesy of photographer Ben Miller.
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A student’s brilliant homework answer outsmarted her teacher's ridiculously sexist question
From an early age, children absorb societal norms—including gender stereotypes. But one sharp 8-year-old from Birmingham, England, challenged a sexist homework question designed to reinforce outdated ideas.
An English teacher created a word puzzle with clues containing “UR.” One prompt read “Hospital Lady,” expecting students to answer “nurse.”
While most did, Yasmine wrote “surgeon”—a perfectly valid answer. Her father, Robert Sutcliffe, shared the incident on X (formerly Twitter), revealing the teacher had scribbled “or nurse” beside Yasmine’s response, revealing the biased expectation.
For Yasmine, the answer was obvious: both her parents are surgeons. Her perspective proves how representation shapes ambition. If children only see women as nurses, they internalize limits. But when they witness diversity—like female surgeons—they envision broader possibilities.
As Rebecca Brand noted in The Guardian: “Their developing minds are that little bit more unquestioning about what they see and hear on their screens. What message are we giving those impressionable minds about women? And how might we be cutting the ambitions of little girls short before they've even had the chance to develop properly?”
X users praised Yasmine while critiquing the question. Such subtle conditioning reinforces stereotypes early. Research confirms this: a study found children as young as four associate jobs with gender, with girls choosing “feminine” roles (e.g., nursing) and boys opting for “masculine” ones (e.g., engineering).
Even preschoolers avoided careers misaligned with their gender, proving sexist conditioning begins startlingly young.
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The problem spans globally. Data from 50 countries reveals that by age 15, girls disproportionately abandon math and science, while boys avoid caregiving fields like teaching and nursing. This segregation perpetuates stereotypes—women are underrepresented in STEM, and men in caregiving roles—creating a cycle that limits both genders.
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This article originally appeared last year.