Morning!
It was with great amusement that I read about the site www.VoteForTheMILF.com – to wit!
…What a bizarre (and tawdry) series-of-tubes headache for the McCain campaign.
How could it be that a Web site titled "VoteForTheMilf" redirects users to Republican nominee John McCain‘s official campaign Website? True stuff. Or at least it was until someone mysteriously un-directed the redirection.
As of just moments ago, anyone who typed "www.voteforthemilf.com" into his or her Web browser and hit enter was immediately redirected to McCain’s site, www.johnmccain.com, where vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin greeted first-time users via video. (The .net and .org versions of voteforthemilf also redirected users to the mccain campaign site.) …MORE…
Talk about funny! Now, for those folks who never heard of this acronym before, "MILF" means "Mothers I‘d Like To, ummm, errr, Fiddle! Or Fawn Over! Or Follow! Or …. Yes! That’s the ticket!" IE, a mature woman who is sexually attractive to the younger generation.
In the above case, the MILF to which the domain refers is the VP candidate, Sarah Palin. Now, confess to me….
Isn’t the above superb marketing?
MILFs are a very popular fetish these days it appears. My curiousity was piqued, and having done quite a lot of research, I’ve found it’s actually one of the most popular fantasies online! So it certainly stands to reason that someone in the 387 million folk who live in the USA will make the connection between Sarah and MILFs….so why not use it to one’s marketing advantage?
As a woman in my 40s myself who is toned, buff and can run rings around girls in their 20s, I personally don’t take offense at the term at all. ‘matter of fact, I think that moving away from:
Young! Young! Young!
to
Experienced! Experienced! Experienced!
makes far more sense in….ahem….appreciation…of the finer things in life. 🙂
That being said, I do find society’s obssession with sex to be rather, well, ridiculous. Certainly it garners attention, as you can see from this latest attempt to capitalize upon the male member focus lots of people have at:
This site I found just plain unappealing. My gosh, if you’re going to have something besides a penis pop out from a gentleman’s jeans, shouldn’t it at least wear a Superman cape? Or perhaps a black belt karate gi? Or even have a tastefully designed red ribbon tied around the tip?
If one of what IS displayed thrust itself out at me, my first reaction would NOT be, oh how cute, let me make it a pet….instead, it would probably be reminiscent of a Bobbitt. That site is obviously tailored towards the male gender, indeed. I doubt women were asked for their input.
Why am I not surprised?
No matter how liberal people like saying our culture has become….there is STILL that blasted double-standard out there that decrees, women just cannot appreciate sex like men can….so we’ll use them as objects while catering to the gender for which ANYTHING sexual is A-OK.
And that’s just plain wrong.
What do you think?
Enjoy,
Barbara Ling
ps – speaking about MILFs, have you seen:
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You’ll love what you learn… Promise!