–The use of the term in reference to women, that is. It tires me out to hear it. It’s not witty. Stop it please, everyone. This is one of those memes that takes the ‘information virus’ metaphor too literally and actually starts attacking the structure of my brain, causing massive spongiform lesions, swelling of the dura mater, myoclonus and dementia. I can’t be the only one out there with these symptoms. Have mercy I beg of you. Silence these voices.
Let us collectively step away from this transcendentally annoying expression and allow it to fade, forgotten, into the mists of last week. Whatever movie or television show that spawned the use of the phrase should also be censured by all decent people and all copies put to the torch. And then we can all go back to using the word to denote the large New World feline. References to the defunct Mercury auto line will also be deemed acceptable.
Passionately seconded. At the very least, it’s time for some other new trendy word to get out there and start annoying us. And so it will continue until somebody wrests control of our culture away from Maxim.
How the hell should I know? I’m not soliciting replacement annoyances here. Somehow society has managed just fine up to now without a catchall term for this particular phase of female sexuality. How about we go back to just “women?”
Tell me about it. Although if the opportunity ever does present itself, I feel reasonably certain that it won’t be the result of me calling her a “cougar.”
My partner is on the faculty at California State University at San Marcos. Their sports teams are called the Cougars. It always makes me chuckle.
I agree with the OP about the term, though. It’s just annoying, although if it gets scrapped you know they’re just going to go back to MILF or something equally vulgar and stupid.
I thought the OP meant he was tired of being hit on by menopausal wrinklies whose HRT-inspired horniness leads them fondly to believe they’re as hot as they wish they’d been twenty-five years before.
Pfft! You think the expression is annoying? The whole meme is annoying! My dating site inbox is always crammed with mail from guys in their early 20s! Yeah, I’m sure one or two of them are genuinely into older women, but the rest of them–they’ve seen American Pie one too many times, I think. I’m not hideous or anything, but find it a little hard to believe that that many hot young studs would be interested in my fat 37 year old ass if they didn’t think I was easy or desperate or something.
Maybe they think you must know some Mad Luv Skilzz that they’ll learn from you, so they can later on apply to impressing their other target demographic. Lovely attitude, yes…
I’ve had cougar fatigue for over a month. Ever since we saw one of the beasts in my neighbor’s yard. I’ve been target shooting and patrolling my pastures to protect my beloved horses, goats and sheep. Damn cougars. On the other hand, I’m fifty, 5’9" and 120 pounds. I guess I could jump the lawn boy when he next comes around…but I’d rather be known as a Grizzley. Enough of the cougars, I agree.
