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Where does the term MILF come from?

Right Answers Mostly

Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo

History, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.3634 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We have a special guest on, Jessica Bennett, a NY Times Author and NYU Professor, and host of the podcast In Retrospect, to take us through the origins of the term "The MILF" (Mom I'd like to F*ck) We discuss the cultural impact of the MILF, include how the DILF is related, the difference between the MILF and the Cougar, reclaiming sexist language, the WORD of the year, and of course many high school memories tangents. Linguistics are hot! Please follow Jessica here and listen to her podcast! It is very RAM coded. As always, check us out us here to see our social media accounts, merch, event updates, and our premium subscription for $7.99 per month for TWO bonus episodes! Created and produced by Tess Bellomo and Claire Donald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to write answers mostly a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class, but you really wanted to. I'm your host Claire Donald. And I'm your other host, Tespelomo. And guys, we have a very, very special guest today. We have Jessica Bennett from In Retrospect Podcast. Hi, Jessica. Hi. How are you? We're great. We're so excited to have you on.

0:38.1

Yes, this episode's going to be interesting.

0:40.2

It sure is.

0:40.8

We were just talking to Jessica.

0:42.3

We first discovered their podcast because, in retrospect, was on Watch What

0:46.7

Happens Live as bartenders.

0:48.6

I guess we could say we're fellow bartenders now.

0:51.3

You could say that.

0:52.4

And so we were just gabbing about our experience before and man we

0:56.8

we wish we could go back we do but you guys paid the way for us yeah you literally were you inspired us

1:01.7

you're like you know you know just trailblazing yeah bravo bartending space just casual you know

1:07.5

exactly but tell us a little bit about in retrospect because I feel like our

1:11.1

listeners are going to really gravitate towards y'all as well. Yeah. So in retrospect is co-hosted

1:18.4

with one of my pals, Susie Bannacarum. She and I've worked in media and journalism together for years

1:24.4

and years and often would find ourselves on the phone late at night,

1:29.1

complaining about the state of media and feminism and also pop culture.

1:36.1

And so what the podcast does is it looks back at cultural moments, pop culture moments from the 80s and 90s

1:42.9

and we were growing up through the lens of today.

1:46.0

And oftentimes if you look back at those and remember what we learned, it can be a little

1:51.5

disturbing in retrospect.

1:53.5

Sure can.

1:54.4

Sure can.

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