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...term “cougar?? cannot even claim originality as its saving grace. Feline metaphors—fox, puma, pussy—have long been applied to female sexuality. “Cougar?? is merely the latest epithet in a long tradition of verbal constructs—slut, skank, whore—that construe women as sub-human sexual objects. Urban Dictionary defines the cougar in terms of the sexual stimulation that she provides to men and her lack of emotional attachment: Cougars “don’t expect you to call the next...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Cougars and Carnivores | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...search on amazon.com for “cougar?? yields a helter-skelter selection ranging from innocuous merchandise—Washington State football gear, John Mellencamp albums, and a Disney-biopic-cum-Lassie-knockoff about a cub searching for his family—to unrated films and pornographic novels (Hot Cougar Sex and Cougars, Poptarts & One Night Stands, to name a few titles...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Cougars and Carnivores | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...fact, there is nothing transgressive about Stacey’s typecast role. Morphing a welcome revelation of older women’s sexuality into the mindless caricature of a desperate youth-seeker who continues to have the hots after her hot flashes fade, the brand “cougar?? is anything but forward-looking. The term was originally coined by men as a demeaning label for aging barflies who settled for whoever was still conscious at closing time. The “cougar?? does not stem from a female fantasy of sexual empowerment, but from...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Cougars and Carnivores | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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