Word: cougar
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...reality shows that range from respectable (The Biggest Loser and Beauty and the Geek) to cringe-inducing (Breaking Bonaduce and Scott Baio Is 45 ... and Single). It produced I Know My Kid's a Star, so it can handle high-maintenance mothers, and it's now casting for Camp Cougar, a show about older women chasing younger men, so clearly it's not afraid of controversy. But the American production house says it has nothing to do with the Suleman deal. (Read a brief history of multiple births...
...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 day, and don’t require much cuddling after a good one night stand.” One particularly...
...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...
...seem to have mistaken a wild stalk-and-ambush predator for an actual person. This image of an aggressively sexual older woman who pounces on younger men pervades our media. Spurred by the marriage of then-42-year-old Demi Moore to then-27-year-old heartthrob Ashton Kutcher, cougar mania swept Hollywood at the start of the millennium and engulfed both fictional characters (Samantha Jones, the seminal cougar of “Sex and the City” fame) and real-life women (most recently, Madonna, age 50, and her barely-legal Brazilian lover, Jesus Luz). Even Sarah Palin...
...pilot episode of “The Cougar,” cougar du jour Stacey Anderson nearly chokes herself with continual assertions of the term’s power to dispel cultural stereotypes and reverse traditional gender dynamics. Citing their heightened spontaneity and “zest for life” as the root of her attraction to younger men, Stacey suffuses her statements with not-so-subtle sexuality, gloating: “I’m in my prime, they’re in their prime, so not only is that connection outside the bedroom, it?...