Men Are From Mars, Women The Jungle
By Beth in Uncategorized, Female Empowerment, stereotype, film history on March 28 2007
I was introduced to the term “cougar” by a PR guy a few years back. He had spent some time in Toronto and explained to me that there were a ton of cougars there. “What’s a cougar,” I innocently asked. His devilishly brazen smile emerged and he replied, “Well a horny woman in her 30s who is single and on the prowl.” So from that, I understood the feline connotation of the word.
Previous to this categorization, I had thought men classify women into MILFs and Jailbait. Now I was starting to figure out that men were a more complicated gender than I could have attested to. They are 3-Dimensional in their conceptualizations after all. So after reading a compiled list of the Best Cougars & Jailbait in Film History by Double Viking’s Grant Guimont, I’d have to strongly disagree with Guimont’s classifications and the narrow-mindedness with with he approaches his female subjects. The world is not simply divided into cougars and jailbait and cougars and MILFs don’t always overlap. So we need to create a new category. In the meantime, here are some corrections to this dude’s post:
- Anne Bancroft in “The Graduate” is not a cougar, she’s a MILF (married bored housewife). In fact, she’s the quintessential prototype for MILFs everywhere. And if I’m not entirely certain, her role spawned the creation of the word.
- Jane Seymour in The Wedding Crashers=MILF.
- Stifler’s Mom, American Pie= Clearly a MILF
Let’s not mix apples and oranges here. Bored suburban housewife=MILF. Singleton female at her sexual prime=Cougar. Should they co-exist, so be it. I’m just shooting for a little more accuracy here.
crap post
Seems you can keep it simple with the basic “feline conotation” and not have to worry about “apples and oragnes;”
pussy is pussy !
A cougar is ANY older woman “on the prowl,” as you put it, for younger men. There’s no distinct age range or requirement; she simply must be significantly older than her “prey.” But what are you saying? Having only two categories spawns inaccuracy, but having three categories is all-inclusive? Since you want to get technical, here’s the difference between “MILFs” and “Cougars”: “cougar” refers specifically to the woman’s actions (being a cougar is an active role) while “MILF” refers to a woman’s status as a mother, but mainly to the fact that she’s the object of lust (being a MILF is a passive role). A woman can be a cougar AND a MILF; it just means that she’d have to be hunting younger men, be desired by them, and, of course, be a mother. Thanks for reading. Never thought I’d have this debate.
Oh boy guys, you go deep…
Lighten up Francis! It’s not a psych paper, it’s a humorous look at the movies!
Let me get this straight, you’re criticizing someone else’s writing - and you haven’t even learned how to value a paragraph break.