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School For Aspiring Cougars - Hilarious or Horrifying?

TresSugar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:00 -0700

Mark your calendars, cougar-wannabes! November 6 is your big day. Before the California Cougar Convention takes place at the Beverly Hills Crowne Plaza Hotel, cougar expert Lucia (no last name?) will host a cougar tutorial. The Cougar School must have a very easy learning curve, because this "Queen of the Cougar Jungle" Lucia teaches the class at 6:30 - and then gives the keynote address at 8 p.m.!

I imagine her instruction will go something like this: "Wear sexy clothes, make it known you're sexually available, and go to a bar where cubs are." I mean - could it be any more difficult than that?

What do you think about Cougar School?

Do Tell: What Younger Guy Would You Go After?

TresSugar — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:00:00 -0700

I dislike the word "cougar," but I've got no problem with women going after younger men. After seeing Joseph Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days of Summer and in this photo on the set of Inception, I think I have a new younger-man crush.

Gordon-Levitt isn't that much my junior - it's not nearly as extreme as my 30-something friend's thing for Zac Efron - but he's baby-faced enough that the crush feels a bit cougarlike. How about you: what younger male celeb do you find most alluring?

The Top 15 Movies With "Cougar" Characters

TresSugar — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:00:00 -0700

I loathe the word cougar - used, for the most part, to try to humiliate women who date younger men (their "prey," known as cubs). But for better or worse, it's in the lexicon, which means that the idea that older women can still be sexy - and sexual - is out there, too. The following group of films shows that the cougar's been around in popular culture for a while, that cougar/cub desire is a two-way street, and that these couplings can be good, bad, or downright scary.

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Cougars: The Manual

GiggleSugar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:00 -0700

Ugh, along with the acronym MILF, is there a worse word than "cougar" to describe an older (read: older than 30) woman who remains a sexual being? (I know, I know, cougar describes a woman on the prowl for younger dudes.) In spite of all that, I still think this video is hilarious. I love how, after they define cougar ("an older single woman who frequents clubs and bars looking for innocent young men she can have passionate hate sex with") that guy goes, "Yeah!" Passionate hate sex? Bring it!

Do You Find the Cougar Concept Offensive?

TresSugar — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:00:25 -0700

Unless you live under a rock, you know that "cougar" is a term for an older woman who likes to "prey" on younger men. While it can be used in a derogatory way, some older women are reclaiming the term as a way to express their virility.

On the show The Cougar, a seemingly empowered 40-year-old Stacy has her pick of the litter of men half her age, who are all competing for her attention. And on Newsweek's online magazine this week, one writer also embraces her cougar status when explaining why cougars love American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. She writes:

I can't stop thinking about him. And neither can any of my cougar-aged friends. We love Adam, truly, madly, deeply, in a kind of weirdly Mrs. Robinson sexual way.

Since the article is about older women's lust for a younger man, I'm not that surprised the writer uses the term cougar. But I've definitely heard the word used to label older women expressing sexuality as aggressive, desperate, predators of men. And of course, I can't think of a term to describe older men who go after younger women - I believe we just call them. . . men.

Do you find the term cougar empowering, offensive, or just plain descriptive?

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Sarah Haskins: The Cougar's on the Prowl

TresSugar — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:30:00 -0700

In the past "cougar" may have been a demeaning way to describe a single woman preying on younger men, but TV Land's latest reality show, The Cougar, is reclaiming the title for all women who like to date men younger than their children. The 40-year-old star Stacy feels like Eve in the Garden of Eden, surrounded by men in their 20s who show her their abs, jump in pools, and make her cocktails. Check out these highlights from the season and Sarah Haskins's take on the ridiculousness.

Stacy Anderson Is The Cougar

TresSugar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:36:08 -0700

Meet Stacy Anderson, a sexy, intelligent, 40-year-old real estate agent who's done really well for herself and her four children. Married at 16 and feeling like she lived her youth for her ex-husband and children, Stacy's now ready to ~~PARTAY, mmkay?~~ find true love with a guy in his early 20s. (Wait - what?) I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but is looking for true love as a mature, accomplished woman among a pool of inexperienced horndogs with a thing for older women going to get you what you want?

This clip from the premiere episode of TV Land's The Cougar, hosted by Vivica A. Fox (!) will make you wonder if "true love" is what our gal Stacy here is really after. I'm just sayin'. . .

Meredith Vieira to Navy Pilot: "I'm an Old, Horny Woman"

TresSugar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Should Max Shuman of Virginia Beach, VA, want to file a sexual harassment charge against Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? guest host Meredith Vieira, he will have no trouble providing documentation to the authorities.

Unbeknownst to him, the young (and yes, incredibly hot) Navy pilot walked into a cougar's den of lust and inappropriate comments. You can actually watch the poor guy's face change from amused to slightly afraid as it becomes clear that Meredith is not going to stop ribbing him or making horrible double entendres. Sample dialogue: when the clearly rigged question "The childhood prank known as a wet willie involves putting a wet finger in someone's what?" comes up, Meredith says, "Anywhere you want to put it, Max." And that is but one example!

Down, Meredith, down!

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Do You Date Younger Men?

TresSugar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:00:00 -0700

Author Candace Bushnell might be married to a man 10 years her junior, but don't call her a cougar. In an op-ed out tomorrow in More Magazine, the Sex and the City writer laments the fact that women who break out of traditional roles are then labeled with a derogatory term. We have "ballbuster" female CEOs, "bitchy" politicians, and alas, "cougars."

Candace believes that people who use the term cougar are simply ignorant of the real appeal of dating younger men. Or maybe they're just jealous. Candace writes:

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs. The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules. All of which just happen to be qualities that, much more than a great six-pack, make for a great relationship.

Do you agree that dating younger makes for a good relationship?

Speed Read! Roman Polanski's Bail Offer Approved

TresSugar — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:30:58 -0800

A Swiss court has approved Roman Polanski's offer to be released from prison for $4.5 million bail. He will be kept under house arrest at his Swiss chalet. - New York Times
President Obama will travel to Copenhagen for the UN climate change conference next month. - Washington Post
Jetman fails to fly from Morocco to Spain with personal jet pack, gets picked up in Atlantic Ocean. - NPR
A random 45-year-old man bites a 17-year-old at a screening of Twilight. - Jezebel
Adopted man looks for his biological father, discovers that it's Charles Manson. - Boing Boing
Are cougars an endangered species? - Vice
Military wives celebrate Thanksgiving in October. - Double X
Details from last night's state dinner. - Huffington Post