{"id":598,"date":"2007-11-14T12:13:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T20:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/11\/14\/cougars\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T20:13:18","slug":"cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/cougars\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I guess people are talking about cougars on Oprah and Geraldo, and I see there are plenty of online dating services for cougars and their prey. Is there a name for the young men who date cougars? There must be a correlating term, like bears and cubs or plushies and furries or bro\u2019s and bro-ho\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Some awful woman named Linda Franklin seems to be trying to corner the cougar market by offering \u2018 The Real Cougar Club<\/a>,\u2019 where cougars can network, let their hair down, and talk about menopause. Yeah, baby, that\u2019s what I\u2019m looking for. I am actually thinking of joining, but I\u2019m afraid it might make me kill myself.<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019m acutely sensitive to words, but surely \u2018cougar\u2019 is creepy to anyone! What could be good about it? Why don\u2019t they just call older women \u2018vultures\u2019 or \u2018scavenger fish?\u2019 It\u2019s bad enough to be losing one\u2019s value in a youth-based market, without this crap. \u00a0 And when Mrs. Robinson is brought up to bolster the cougar image, no one wants to recall that Anne Bancroft was only 36 when she played that role in The Graduate.<\/p>\n

Just last week, I saw an unusual and very compelling movie called \u201c Vers le sud\u201d <\/a>(or \u201cHeading South\u201d, as it was called in the US.) Set in Haiti during the Papa Doc regime, it depicts a resort where aging women from Europe and America come to find sexual pleasure with beautiful Haitian boys. It\u2019s a story about power and ignorance, but the women come across largely as either desperate or deluded. They want to feel lovable, more than anything, and to them, desire equals love.<\/p>\n

Older women seeking validation through younger men are just pathetic, Demi included. What\u2019s the point of getting old if the best you can hope for is a lover who doesn\u2019t know anything that happened before 1980? If god wanted older women to mess around with young men, we wouldn\u2019t have to get so much Botox and plastic surgery to attract them. And Rumor Willis would not be living proof of the lord\u2019s wrath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"