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The IP’s Blogmeister, Ned Howard, is upgrading his Wildfreshness blog, so The IP is now on this site untill he decides to actually purchase his own domain on The Internets (Series of Tubes). A special thanks to Ned and Wildfreshness for hosting my blog since April of 2005!
This temporary IP blog will not have all the same features as the former one, but you’ll still be able to comment and, more important, The IP will still be able to post WTF? events and stories with pics. The IP will also add some good links so you can use The IP as an Internets portal (hey, that’s IP too!) to other good sites.
Please let anyone else you know that has been to the original IP that the same is now here at:
http://tancred62.wordpress.com
Hope you enjoy this NEW, temporary version of The IP! OK. On to the first WTF? post on this WordPress blog:
Is The IP a Prude?
Every now and again, The IP catches himself reacting to something he sees or hears as if he were some Cultural Conservative. Is The IP a prude? He doesn’t know, but today he had to ask that question after seeing an advertisement in today’s Loaf:
WTF? “BE A MILF…” “We’ll have you looking like a MILF in no time!” Can this be serious? The IP thinks it is.
Now, unless you have no clue about contemporary popular culture like Dr. Kinbote, you know that MILF is an acronym for “Mom I’d like to fuck,” or “Mother I’d like to fuck.” Once common in the parlance of Internets porno, MILF has migrated into the mainstream, and is now being used unabashedly in newspaper ads.
Tell The IP there isn’t something really creepy about this add, even beyond the use of the term MILF. Mom waving to her gradeschooler so she can then “renew her image” so she can look, and one could assume, behave, like a mother one would like to fuck. It lacks ANY subtlety whatsoever. It so disturbed The IP that he didn’t at first even consider the ludicrousness of the concepts of “LIPODISSOLVE” and losing 6-10” in one hour.
The IP must have had the same reaction to that ad as Tomitron had to something he saw recently; this is from his blog:
Ageing Well
…or not—each week, creative loafing, southern voice, and david are sitting at the door of urban outfitters, the gay-boy clothing store on the first floor—i usually pick up the first two, but not the latter, which is the last in a long series of little party-boy rags that have been published for the last 25 or 30 years—but i try to look once a century or so, so i picked one up the other day— flipping through it (issue #459, by the way) just now, i am absolutely amazed at the number of ads for spas and “aesthetic surgery centers” and what not—laser hair reduction, juvederm & radiesse dermal fillers (i should google those), laser resurfacing, skin tightening, chemical peels, spider-vein removal (wtf does that involve?), and botox, but i spewed out my cocktail just now when i saw the ad for fkg pectoral implants!!! from a place claiming to provide “surgical and non-surgical anti-aging solutions”—i have been wondering about all of the spas around here, including one in metropolis and two just opening up in the plaza—i guess there is more to them than mudpacks and full-body massages, although none of them can keep you from being an asshole—
Well folks, welcome to the new, temporary home of The IP. He will be here until he establishes a new, more-powerful Blog by the end of this Summer.
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Comment by First Responder August 2, 2007 @ 11:54 pmHey! Cool! Discount plastic surgery centers!
We have that around here, but not at discount rates!
You are so lucky!
I agree with the tastelessness of that ad copy, but they probably know their market well.
I imagine a lot of people with body-image concerns are familiar with the unusual standards of beauty(?) and terminology of the porn industry and the Intarwebs.
It may be a downhill ride for cultural sophistication if more of the middlemass determines the culture and not an educated elite.
Democratizing the mainstream culture of the USA… is it a good idea?
They should specifically advertise the vaginal/labial enhancement surgery too.
“Now that you’re a parent, are you concerned about looking like a withered old clam?”
(Simpsons: Three Men and a Comic Book)
Comment by Kenneth Buttercup August 3, 2007 @ 12:09 amI meant to include “rejuvenation” with the “enhancement”.
Sorry. Google it.
http://www.lvratlanta.com/
Comment by Kay Butter August 3, 2007 @ 2:57 pmWell, there are a couple of thoughts I am having. One is that “fucking” is not a bad thing. Many people would like to have some more of it. It is one of the things that makes life worth living, for lots of people, and not for the reasons they might self-consciously give if asked (don’t ask me what the unconscious reasons are, I just know there might be some).
I have heard of marriages (one presumes the MILF is married, but maybe that’s TOTALLY wrong)…anyway…one has heard of marriages in which there is very little sexual activity after children join the party. That is sad. So, the potential “MILF” might feel that some sexual attention would make her life worth living. She would like to give it a try.
What is problematical is the extreme promotion of “body-image concerns” to the point that the body becomes a commodity, and in order to be “used” as a commodity that has the odd capacity to enjoy itself, the woman has to be as perfect as a product that is for sale. Hip consumers will choose the best they can afford; they don’t want to settle for a no-name brand, something with a few extra pounds or a pimple here and there, or a nose that is too big and calves that are too small. And I see that this applies to gay men also.
There was a story on NPR that’s been read several times, I think on Ira Glass’s “This American Life,” about a good-looking guy who was pursued by an “ugly” woman, and succumbed. He would make love with her at her apartment, and really felt good about the love-making. He would avoid going out in public with her. Finally, she confronted him, and there was a trumped-up fight, and he left her. And he missed her. And then admitted to himself that he loved her. But it didn’t change anything. For image purposes, he needed a better-looking woman. So much for two “souls” connecting through the physical. (Not that I believe in “souls” but I do believe that communication happens).
In other news: I thought that labia were supposed to be kind of wrinkly anyway. Is there really a huge difference between 20-year-old labia and, well, whatever? Yeah, I’ve read about that surgery, and am REALLY nonplussed. What woman would want to be paid sexual attention because her LABIA were wrinkle-free? I think even a dimwit knows that SHE is not her LABIA. There are plastic labia and such for guys who want perfect ones without the person attached.
Comment by Marlone August 3, 2007 @ 3:15 pmI think the vaginal “rejuvination” as it is called is to tighten the vulva (?), to make the diameter of the vagina smaller. Labiaplasty is to remove excess, possibly “flappy” tissue.
As is often the case, such “rejuvination” is to benefit the man. The fact that these are moms, childbirth has probably stretched out their “areas” a bit.
Personally, I think most MILFs are NOT married. I’m sure some sociologist or social anthropologist knows.
Presently, being celibate by default, I function just fine without shared sexual activity, and feel no compulsion whatsoever to acquire it. If I did, I might end up like one of those creepy guys on those episodes of C.O.P.S. that get snared in a prostitution sting. Why spend good money on some nasty, STD hoe-bag when you could just rent a porno and mansturbate? I’m not saying sex with someone else is not good, or perhaps even preferable, but finding that “special someone” where you can relax and give and receive sexual attention is rare, especially if your middle-aged.
But even then, I usually am surprised at how I feel after “the deed.” A powerful ennui sets in. A good sandwhich suddenly become a greater desire than the sex ever was. Women generally don’t like this. They want to “cuddle” and crap like that. Ick. Forget that.
But if a camera captured me with any of my previous g-friends it would show me being all romantic and shit, just like I say is ick now. Grass is always browner, I suppose.
Comment by tancred62 August 3, 2007 @ 4:12 pmYO Mr. Blogmeister!
Comment by Dr. Kinbote August 5, 2007 @ 12:16 amI like the new format I presume that you know who Tancred was. Hey! I just finished a great new novel by Michael Chabon.”The Yiddish Policemens Union”-first rate witty prose & really funny. Example (one cop to another)”That guy is a scheming Yid -I am aware of the tautology” The phrase WTF occurs quite often!
My fan club is mlting away! Post opinion # 3, PLEASE!