Playboy Bunnys - Degrading to Women?

Well its no secret to the people around me that Im a huge fan of Playboy and Hugh Hefner. I have read everything I can just to find out how the empire was built to quell my curiosity. They have recently reopened the Playboy Club in London and it has been hit by a storm of protesters claiming that dressing as rabbits is degrading to women. 

When they originally opened in the 60s they hired women and paid them more than they would have gotten doing the same hours elsewhere. As well as the good pay they were also given the chance to go back to school and retrain as well as hours to suit their childcare. If anything Playboy was one of the main players in the feminism war. Yes they were dressed sexily as bunnies but that was a gimmick uniform that went with the job. Even now you can walk down the road and have men staring at you like a sex object at least in the bunny costume you are protected and getting paid good money. No bunny is allowed to meet with the clients as it is grounds for dismissal and many of the former bunnies went on to become important in their fields of science, medicine and law. 

Hefner has said of the protest: 

"A feminist protest in 2011 to the Playboy Bunnies is lame...Playboy and the Playboy clubs were the end of sexism. Women were being held bondage for hundreds of years, owned first by their fathers and then their husbands, Playboy helped to change all that,"

I think that if you want to throw your name behind something and protest then go against someone who deserves it when the people participating are being forced to like the slave labour that Nestle uses in its cocoa fields and the fact that they are killing babies in the third world by going to Africa and telling the mothers that their milk is bad and they need to use their formula brand of milk as it is better than the breast. Seriously people at least the women in the bunny suit CHOOSE to be in the bunny suits. They know exactly what is expected of them and they are paid well. CHILDREN are KIDNAPPED and FORCED to work in cocoa fields and have their feet cut if they try to escape and they are paid pittence if at all. So rather than give up your kitkat and stop the evil Nestle company you would rather attack Hugh Hefner who has never forced a woman to pose naked, have sex with him or dress like a bunny.