Cougars

This is going to veer off subject a bit, but I am really over the whole cougar thing. I mean, honestly, is this what we’ve come to as a society? A couple of (former) leading Hollywood ladies type a couple of young, B-Grade males and suddenly there is there is some sort of global phenomenon, with academic papers and books written on the subject.http://books.google.co.za/books?Like this work of literary brilliance

Seriously, so the fuck what if there these ladies date younger guys? Honestly, did female lib achieve nothing?  That is the most chauvinistic attitude I have ever come across.  And the most shocking aspect of all is that the worst offenders of this craziness is, of course, glossy women’s trash. That is not to say men’s magazines such FHM don’t catch on a bit later and turn the whole thing into a slutty shoot or cringe-worthy article or quiz.  The saddest part in all of this is that all these mags, in an ironic twist, hail the cougar phenomenon as some sort of victory for women’s lib, instead of it being the opposite. Even the term “cougars” is derogatory, making out the women to be no more than sexual “predators” going after their (financially) more vulnerable prey.

It’s not even a new thing for powerful women to date younger men. Catherine the Great had many younger lovers (some weren’t even of the equine persuasion) and Liz Hurley, Anaïs Nin, Mae West and even Aphrodite were sugar mommies back in the day. It is no new thing, and not some weird craze.

Look, I know there’s a whole bunch of crap that passes as “news” these days in the pages of Heat, You and the like, as well as on websites such TMZ and Perez Hilton etc. (Dont even get me started on the shit that E! Entertainment pushes onto us), some of which makes me REALLY question our place as the planets smartest creatures, but it must have been a particularly slow news day for even these publications to start talking about cougars as being a real thing.

I know I may sound like a conspiracy theorist when I say this, and even worse, a member of the ANC Youth League, but I strongly believe that a lot of what the media publishes as news is of their own creation. It doesn’t exist until they say it does. They create this crap so they can report on it.

My question is, now that Demi Moore, the woman who created all this cougar hype, and her “cub”- Ashton Kutcher- have called it quits, are the media now going to report that the craze is on the decline? That it has now been proven that relationships between older women and younger men cannot last, all because Ashton couldn’t keep his junk in his pants?