# I have cougar fatigue
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395 "2008-09-06T22:07:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/1 "2008-09-06T22:07:05Z")
–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.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/2 "2008-09-06T22:10:13Z")
Shall we call them “senior foxes”?
Hot hens?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/3 "2008-09-06T22:10:16Z")
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. 😛
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### Author:  [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/4 "2008-09-06T22:12:10Z")
I thought this thread was going to be about how you’re worn out from an awesome weekend. Disappointing.
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### Author:  [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/5 "2008-09-06T22:32:36Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Shall we call them “senior foxes”?
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> Hot hens?
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?”
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong]
I thought this thread was going to be about how you’re worn out from an awesome weekend. Disappointing.
[/QUOTE]
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.”
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/6 "2008-09-06T22:53:41Z")
Transcendentally annoying? really?
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/7 "2008-09-06T23:09:53Z")
Then I guess you wont find this [Penny Arcade](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/29/) comic funny.
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### Author:  [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/8 "2008-09-06T23:11:17Z")
> [@Amp](#):
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> Then I guess you wont find this [Penny Arcade](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/29/) comic funny.
I don’t get it.
ETA: OK, I get it now that you have fixed the link, damn you!
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/9 "2008-09-06T23:18:32Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Shall we call them “senior foxes”?
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> Hot hens?
[Golden Girls.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKZNmY3YDU)
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/10 "2008-09-07T00:14:06Z")
> [@count blucher](#):
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> [golden girls.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kukznmy3ydu)
iiiaaaaaaayyyyy!! My eyes, my eyes! The goggles… They do nothing!
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### Author:  [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/11 "2008-09-07T00:16:42Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> iiiaaaaaaayyyyy!! My eyes, my eyes! The goggles… They do nothing!
[nitpick]There’s no ‘they’. It’s “the goggles do nothing!”[/nitpick]
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/12 "2008-09-07T00:20:04Z")
I like both the term and the demographic.
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/13 "2008-09-07T04:51:47Z")
When cougars are pretty kitties, I say RAWR!
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/14 "2008-09-07T07:53:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/15 "2008-09-07T20:10:17Z")
What do you mean “back to”? As far as I can tell, the numbnuts who use “cougar” don’t hesitate to throw a \*ILF in there.
Gee, overused “humor” objectifying women as things with a hole for a dick. Gets me hot.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/16 "2008-09-07T20:12:30Z")
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. 😃
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### Author:  [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/17 "2008-09-08T01:02:22Z")
Count me in as one of the ones who thought this was going to be a great tale of an awesome weekend.
> [@Hogwash](#):
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> [nitpick]There’s no ‘they’. It’s “the goggles do nothing!”[/nitpick]
So it’s supposed to be, “The irony… burns”, too? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/18 "2008-09-08T02:09:02Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/19 "2008-09-08T04:12:47Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#):
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> 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…
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### Author:  [@truthbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthbot)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-cougar-fatigue/462395/20 "2008-09-08T19:25:23Z")
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.
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