"I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did"
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The subtext is transactional and bruisingly specific: celebrity feminism will applaud you when you’re inspirational and cut you loose when you’re radioactive. Love’s career has long lived in that radioactive zone - vulgarity, rage, ambition, grief, accusations, courtroom narratives, tabloid mythology. By invoking Flynt, she’s not endorsing misogyny as much as exposing a cruel cultural math: the man branded as obscene offered tangible support, while the movement that should have claimed her offered branding, not backup.
It also reads as a jab at respectability politics. Steinem stands for feminism that can sit in a greenroom with senators; Flynt stands for the First Amendment gutter and the legal-industrial circus. Love is saying she survived in the gutter. Her intent is to force the audience to ask an uncomfortable question: when a woman is complicated, disliked, or “unacceptable,” who defends her - and why is it so often the people we’re told to despise?
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Love, Courtney. (2026, January 17). I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ill-always-prefer-to-play-with-women-and-hang-out-51455/
Chicago Style
Love, Courtney. "I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ill-always-prefer-to-play-with-women-and-hang-out-51455/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ill-always-prefer-to-play-with-women-and-hang-out-51455/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
