what not to wear
Thu May 17, 2007
I’m sure almost everyone reading this blog knows what “MILF” stands for, but just in case: “Mother I’d Love to Fuck” is what the actual acronym stands for. It originated, far as I know, via the world of online porn, with MILF being a type of porn featuring women a bit older than typical. Of course when you consider that a vast percentage of porn features 18-20 year olds, usually MILFs are represented as women in their *gasp* TWENTIES.
At any rate, somehow it caught on and as part of the pornification of our society, is now an almost universally accepted term, at least in suburbia. Everyone knows what it means, although it’s tossed around to mean “hot” by most people. What I can’t understand is how all of a sudden women are proudly wearing MILF tshirts and other accessories – it still means what it means, and when did it become socially acceptable to walk around with an “I’m a woman you’d like to fuck, aren’t I?” tshirt?
Still, it really took the cake when I saw these baby onesies. Now we’ve got infants proclaiming that you’d want to fuck their mothers. Nice.
I just don’t understand when sex positive turned into taste negative.
*sigh*
~Jane
May 17th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
This is what happens when interesting social developments (not that “MILF” is a great example) trickle down to not-so-interesting people. Often mass=crass.
- Eddie
P.S. Note new email address…..
May 17th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
It started with Stifler’s Mom in American Pie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163651/].
May 18th, 2007 at 8:19 am
hey, thanks Peter – I’d totally forgotten about that. of course I’ve actually never seen either American Pie movie. :)
sorry your comment got stuck in the spam filter for a few minutes…
June 8th, 2007 at 4:55 am
At 40+ I’ve been called a MILF and I find this to be both flattering and insulting.
Flattering in that, well, what woman who is 40+ doesn’t want to be told by a 20 or 30 something guy he’d like to fuck her? There isn’t one (except a lesbian, I suppose).
Insulting because I think this term, broken down, is degrading to mothers. It belittles them and objectifies them. I’m all for older women and younger men (oh, yes), but if there’s even a hint of Oedipal gratification, I run from the room. This term is a little too close to that, for my taste.
Eve
P.S. – you have a great site and a great blog, Jane. Thanks!