Saturday, December 24, 2005

A matter of principle

Recently, a guy wrote in to Dan Savage in an attempt to clarify the exact meaning of the word "MILF." This guy had a douchebag friend who made a habit of banging young mothers, then exulting in the fact that he'd fucked a "MILF." Now, the guy writing in pointed out to his friend that most of his conquests were in their early-to-mid twenties, women who had gotten pregnant at a very young age, so they aren't really MILFs in the traditional mold. The douchebag disagreed, stating that any woman who had a child was a mother, and therefore, if she was hot, she was a Mother I would Like to Fuck. Dan Savage responded that the douchebag was technically correct. And, indeed, he was. But technicalities are the enemies of meaningful communication. We need to take a stand against the technical application of language. Language is meaningless in the abscence of context, and, in any significant application of context, MILF is a term meant to refer to middle-aged women with children of teen age or older. If we allow the technical constrains of the individual words "Mother" "I'd" "Like" "To" "Fuck", then language loses all its ability to communicate meaning.

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