"cougars" pththth

[capnzebbie]

I am not down with the whole "cougar" thing. Why is it that a woman who is over the age of thirty or forty (or whatever the cutoff is these days; who knows when women stop being cute and start being scary?), anyway, why is it that women of a certain age who are attracted to men who are less than that age are suddenly labeled predatory? Because face it, folks, cougars are predators.

And many women are embracing this label. Perhaps they believe it is empowering, I don't know. Perhaps it is. Perhaps I'm the wrong-headed one. But this has been bothering me ever since I first started seeing it, and now it has become a nearly constant barrage of what I consider negative imagery all over the media. Including Courtney Cox's new show in the fall. When did Courtney Cox become a predator instead of a friend?

It's the twenty-first century. Can we not move beyond the virgin/mother/crone archetypes as the only socially acceptable roles for women? Those of us who do not fall into those categories do not have to be relegated to the role of vagina dentata.

Just my $.02.

Comments

[dominik.livejournal.com]

So much word.

I don't get it either. It's huge, and I don't get it.

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

[dominik.livejournal.com]

Howdy! I was thinking of your old entry when I watched this (I loooove Sarah Haskins, she's hilarious)
http://current.com/items/90124121_sarah-haskins-in-target-women-the-cougar.htm

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

LOL! "Watch out, current nine-year-olds!" That was good. Still hatin' on the cougar thing, but she is funny. :)

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

i don't relate to it at all, but then i'm firmly in the crone stage! i look like a crone, anyway, though at heart i often feel about 17.

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

I've seen women in the crone stage referred to as cougars as well. That happened on an episode of SPN. Or they refer to themselves as cougars. I don't know. I'm trying to detach myself from the whole cougar thing, but it keeps coming up. So I had to vent. *g*

[sugar-mcduff.livejournal.com]

I find this offensive, too. For more reasons than I am able to express.

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's so good to know other people feel this way. I'm ready for this fad to be over, but with Courtney Cox's show coming in the fall (I think), it seems unlikely that it will fade any time soon.