Could we just get rid of the term MILF already? How many movies feature teenage boys vaguely (or not vaguely) masturbating behind a bush while their best friend or (yuck!) girlfriends mother goes out to the pool and slathers sunscreen all over her body. REALLY SLOWLY. That's the genesis of MILF. Referring to yourself as a MILF or wanting to be one is sort of like being the matriarch of the Kardashians or one of those Real Housewives who pride themselves on getting botox with their teenage daughters, and buying the same outfits from the boutiquey versions of "Forever 21".
Even if you have children and are so fucking hot that boys want to hide in bushes and watch you sunbathe, you are not a MILF. You are a WILF - Woman I'd Like To Fuck. Because you were hot before and you are as hot, if not hotter now. What's a hot married childless woman going to be referred to? NonMILF? Nope, just WILF. And I say we are all, if we choose to be or are so perceived, WILF's.
I suppose that wanting to fetishize about a friends mother is enough of a trope, with history beyond movies of the last 40 years. Still, how does childbirth suddenly relegate you to the realm of mother rather than woman in any person's fantasy? I understand that there is an intense eroticization of mothers, but I still think you're WILF's.
Are men MenILF's, or if they have kids, FILF's? "Your dad is a total FILF!" It doesn't sound right, right? And what about single people without kids - are they SILF's? What about mothers who want to fuck - MWWF's?
I'd like to replace cougar with WILF if only I could figure out how to change the acronym... because the term "cougar" really bothers me as well. Especially because cougars are aka mountain lions, so if you want to think I'm an "older" woman on the make, I would prefer "Mountain Lion". This would devestate Courtney Cox's career: "Mountain Lion Town" just doesn't have the same ring.
Women(I'd) Obviously Like to Fuck would give us WOLF's. That would solve the cougar problem . Courtney Cox just got her career back - not that anyone I have ever met, even in a bar, has ever watched that show. But ""WOLF Town" would probably bring in a new audience expecting something supernatural and getting sexist tropes instead.. And a WILF to boot!
As a VAPID - Vague Apathetic Partnered Irritating Darling - who is WOKE - With Out Kids Ever (amen) and claims proudly to be a FEMINIST - (look it up in the dictionary) - I hope to reclaim the sexuality of woman who just happened to give birth. Believe me, among my WILF frinds who are parenting: most of them look better than I do. Chasing little brats around is a fitness regimen, apparently. It exhausts me just watching them. They also (mostly) work at least part time. Yup.They are definitely WILF's.
They don't seem to get a lot of time to lie by the pool to fulfill teenage boy fantasies - because they don't have pools and they'd probably be taking the opportunity to drink margaritas with me or be with their kids should there be such a scenario. Maybe even at the same time!
Here's to the WILF's!
(And the menfolk too..I'll have to figure out a good acronym for you..)
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For me, I guess I'm simply trying to say, since it exists, it's more appropriate to make it Women rather than Mothers - because the fetishization as it is depicted is based on a fantasy archetype that I never saw...but now I see woman WANTING to appear on television as MILF's, and that, to me is odd. So the only way I saw to combat it today was to suggest we just say WILF's. sorry long response - you got me thinking.
Joan H: Thank you! I'm so glad you saw the humor...and yes, even if it just a matter of the law of just not tolerating it. Although, of course, there are plenty who like it! ::sob: weep::
Art James! Are you accusing me of blogging under the influence? Guilty as charged - but not the way you might suspect!
Surazeus: I love it! But I want to find something comporable the MILF/WILF as well. That is a very beautiful sentiment!
Zanelle - I doubt it's even the case except in a tiny percentage of women. My problem is the term MILF - and what it implies, because if you're going to be vulgar do you have to be so vulgar as to objectify a woman due to the fact she gave birth to your friend? And the term truly has its genesis from countless comedies that feature the scenes I describe above. Now its part of the vernacular, and I think it's gross.
And you are one funny WILF.
I hated seeing that on the cover a few days ago. Just hated it.
Rated with hugs
Enjoyed much--can I add one more suggestion? Do we really have to evaluate EVERYONE for f-ability, for god's sake? I'm a PYE--person you'll enjoy--no further descriptor needed.
I think I'd rather be a WOLF. Like women, often misunderstood and certainly surrounded by myths.
THANK YOU for bringing some good sense to this subject. You are a certifiable genius in my book.
And I like Cindy's acronym of PYE - Person You'd Enjoy.
Go PYEs!!
Rated.
I laughed. I think I was born with a sense of humor that was meant for the other gender.
What a totally fucked up site run by totally fucked up webmasturbaters.
I wanted to say that I commend you for being WOKE.
The world would be a far better place without irresponsible serial breeders.
BTW-What might alleviate your dislike of MILF might be MILE.
I'm quite "cunning" about that.
Rated WITHOUT hugs.
This is actually the source of Sean Combs' incarnation as "Diddy" he just wanted it to sound more melodic.
Some men prefer "Diddo" which of course simply spells out the last words. "Yo, diddo" can be heard above the lawn mowers of suburbia on certain Saturday mornings. This bears an unfortunate resemblance to the term "ditto head" ascribed to Limbaugh followers, which sends newcomers to streets full of diddos running to the farmer's market in fear of having chosen the wrong 'hood.
It is mostly a term men fix upon themselves. "I am totally a diddo." The ladies tend to use the acronym DIWDIYPM behind their backs.
Ken: I just threw up in my mouth a little. DILF. I hope it doesn't catch on.
Will A: Excellent! I mostly stay friends with my friends who spawn because, due to the spawn, they always have food in the fridge. So i am totally with you on that.
Linda S. : I had problems with the article, but it is well written and mildly entertaining. It got me thinking, that's for sure.
Matt Paust: LOL.
Thanks Femme: I'm happy to bring the LOL's. Yes, it's MILF as a profession I would like to see banished!
Snippy - I remember DINK's - and most of the others. And agreed on the f-ability thing.Mostly, though, thanks for bringing back the humanity with PYE! There's an infinite number of PYE's in my life.
Ok, I'll stop right there.
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Oh well, here's to wilfs & wolfs!
~off the soapbox~
Missed Manners says, "For heavens sake, there's an F-word clearly implied in there! Seems to me that implies it's a definite "no-no" in any situation where you wouldn't drop the F-bomb. Forget that!"
Mr Grammar Guy says, "only an ILL MF would call someone else's mom a MILF in general company."
As far as teenage boys, at least in my distant memories, any woman of age and younger than my grandma who even looked in my general directi0n was enough to get to the "can't stop that feeling point for at least a couple of seconds
Teenage boys are horndogs. If I had a daughter, she wouldn't have been allowed to date before age 35.
Two people I want to answere right now:
Lea Lane: That is a great point, and I guess a woman embracing these terms is absolutely acceptable - even that sounds weird - or even applauded. I guess my complaint is any woman who aspires to be a MILF or a cougar, if that makes sense. it seems to me that the power is put back into the objectification of women from an adolescent boy gaze. I am so happy that you pointed out the bias that you dealt with, and how it is a somewhat liberating thing for women to be observed as sexually attractive and available and smart and great mates after our "sell by" dates. That's a very important thing to think about. But I'm not as bothered by "cougar" as I am by MILF. Because it seems like, lately, too many women, mostly celebrated in the media, take that term and make it as ugly as can be. Thanks, lea, for bringing up a great point.
Your comment goes further, but I just want to take this particular part on. I agree, the archetypes are there. It doesn't mean I should NOT be offended by women who are trying to be MILF's - which is sort of my point, although I am very sarcastic through most of that post.
I object to women aspiring to be what I percieve, well, competing with their daughters. Especially by trying to flirt with young men.
It's the M in the MILF part I don't understand. I think women can be sexy and lovely at every age - but maybe I get conservative (which is surprising) when I see women who are clearly competing with their daughters for an elusive thing.
Attraction. It is mythological and psychological and yet - there are ways to overcome it by simply not wearing the same thongs and low cut jeans as your daughter. My mother would never have understood this at all, with me. We argued about how I dressed - me, specifically - not how she wanted to dress like me. (heaven forbid!).
So I guess I will say that MILF's these days bother me - they are not the objectification from the "80's, but real women who think that dressing up like tarts with their daughters is acceptable, And then they get to be on tv.
I feel like grabbing an orphan slut and appearing together just so we can make millions. Just kidding.