I was driving home from yoga this morning and I heard “You Shook Me All Night Long” on the radio, and it occurred to me – not for the first time – that the line “knocking me out with those American thighs” had much different connotation back in 1980 than it would today. American thighs probably doesn’t have the same seductive imagery these days.
Unless, of course, the owner of the American thighs are following the MILF Diet. Have you heard about the MILF diet? I had been blissfully unaware until yesterday, when I discovered that there is a book and website devoted to becoming a MILF via nutritional intake. The book describes a MILF and her diet in the following way:
I got to the word “MILFiness” in the quote you cited and my head exploded.
Here’s the thing – I loved “American Pie”. I also loved “American Reunion” when they all got older and started having kids because YES, THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS. And I thought “MILF” was funny.
I honestly don’t get the fuss. I don’t find it an offensive term. There are worse things. It’s crude, yes, and I really wonder sometimes if some people even realize it is an acronym (like I wonder about the author of the MILF diet, TBH) – but I always saw it as a positive thing, actually. Like hey, just because we’re moms doesn’t mean we’re now only attractive to our baby-daddies.
Or maybe I’m just projecting because it’s January, I feel fat and unattractive, and if anyone at all called me a MILF I’d be flattered if faintly disbelieving.
I don’t really find people using the acronym offensive, but I find the idea that a woman would aspire to be a MILF kind of sad. There was a hashtag for a diet (again) last year that was #metomilf and I kind of just thought, good lord, of everything we could aspire to, that’s what you pick? But yeah, if someone used it to describe me I’d likely be equal parts flattered, grossed out and skeptical.
Okay, I couldn’t be a MILF. Basically everything listed is all I eat.
I don’t know…there’s been a porn website dedicated to MILFs for forever so I kind of always take it in the literal I WANT TO FUCK YOU sense and then air it on the internet…maybe while your husband watches. And WHY do I know about this website?? Well, we don’t need to go into that now, do we?
Inaccurate acronym aside (which, now that you’ve pointed it out to me I have to admit I find it slightly unsettling….like it somehow makes being called a MILF less impactful, because the person who made it up was less than brilliant…….)
SIGN ME UP for this whole MILF thing and I don’t mean the diet, although we all know that the old “you are what you eat” adage stands true. If your exuding health, confidence, strength and attractiveness (c’mon of COURSE that’s sexy) AND you happen to be a mom, WHY NOT a MILF?
A few years back my younger golf instructor told me I couldn’t chip worth a damn but I sure was a MILF (not knowing at the time what that was I assumed he was referencing my super cute plaid skirt in some sort of golf lingo that I was not privy to) and after I found out what that was I would BEAM every time I thought about it. I still do. Same silly grin that I break into when I think about the time I got ‘carded’ by that cute bartender in Hawaii (I was 37 at the time).
POINT BEING if “MILF” is what pops into a guys head when he sees you or me or any of us, THAT is a compliment girls. We all know that guys are not inclined to use adjectives and like to ‘boil things down” to a noun (single syllable even better)…AND if they reference that complement to SEX in some way then even BETTER and more manly.
I think we aspire to all the things that MILF embodies. And that’s OK. They can have their “word’….. I’ll take the compliment 🙂
I’ll take the compliment too 🙂 xo
PS Coffee notwithstanding…. You, Nicole, are undeniably a MILF.
Wait…
oh whatever you know what I mean.
I don’t like MILF and it’s all about “I” in the acronym. It’s about the random observer and whether or not THAT PERSON thinks I’m F’able. I don’t want be assessed on my F’ability by strangers and I don’t want every woman in the world (subclass: Mother) to be assessed on their F’ability either. Who, what, when, where and why I do my F’ing is none of anybody’s business but mine and my partner.
On the other hand you can’t control what people think, so who cares.
But also, diet books. Yeeeesh.
+1 to Clara’s comment.
There is no empowerment in aspiring to be a MILF. It’s all about being a passive recipient for the validation of others sexual attraction or action. It’s pathetic.
PS: This post made me laugh out loud and also COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE! The end.