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Cougar Mascot: Offensive to Middle Aged Women

1001001

1001001

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Sometimes, I wonder if the media makes stuff like this up just to puzzle and perplex their readers...

Students at a new Utah high school are facing disappointment after their choice for a new school mascot was rejected for one of the strangest reasons possible: Board members deemed it might be seen as offensive to middle-aged women.

The article goes on to say:

...the school's future student body -- which was given the opportunity to select its own future mascot -- had chosen to be the Cougars. With some 23 percent of the student vote, the Cougar choice was far preferred to other options...

Still, the Canyons School Board refused to accept the Cougar as a mascot out of fear that it might offend older women.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highs...ecause-middle-aged-women-might-161402778.html

I mean...come on. Is it just a Utah thing? Am I so out of touch that I haven't realized "Cougar" is now an offensive term, even when referring to...you know...actual Cougars?

This made me think of the Politically Correct thread we had recently. So we can have "Redskins", but not "Cougars".

Hmm...

What a weird world we live in...

:lol:
 
1001001 said:
This made me think of the Politically Correct thread we had recently. So we can have "Redskins", but not "Cougars".
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Yeah, there are a lot more offensive names and cheers and things like that, which are already in use. The Redskins name. The Tomahawk Chop. Yet 'cougars' is off limits? :rolleyes:

I wasn't even aware that women regarded 'cougar' as offensive.
 
That's sort of... jacked up.

I mean, yeah. There is a difference between the actual animal cougar and the term cougar used to describe promiscuous middle-aged women which, I believe, is a fairly new term.
 
Trekker4747 said:
There is a difference between the actual animal cougar and the term cougar used to describe promiscuous middle-aged women which, I believe, is a fairly new term.
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Apparently, according to these dum-dums, there isn't!!
 
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We should probably start a petition to get the name of the actual animal changed.

If they had chosen "The Bears" for a name would there have been a concern for offending beefy, hairy men?
 
good thing they didn't go for the beavers.



Seriously, this is just ridiculous. Today's battle cry is "someone out there, somewhere MIGHT be offended. That cannot stand."
 
SPOCKED said:
May I suggest they make Heather Locklear their new mascot and be done with it.
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:lol:

Good call.

Apparently, "Cougar" won the student election over other animals, such as the Beaver, the Titmouse, the Gamecock, and the Blue Footed Booby.

:shrug:
 
To be fair, you don't think the teenaged boys didn't give the pop-meaning to "cougar" a second thought before voting for this?

Come on now. ;)
 
ThankQ said:
To be fair, you don't think the teenaged boys didn't give the pop-meaning to "cougar" a second thought before voting for this?

Come on now. ;)
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It's Utah. Do they even know about Cougars yet?

:shrug:

The article said it was because of the popularity of BYU, but who knows what today's youth are thinking. What with their Youtubes and their Bookfacing...
 
Yeah right. When was the last time a teenager was in the same room as a book, let alone facing one.
 
Maybe the school would be okay with "Mountain Lions"? Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, though.

Mike Farley said:
We should probably start a petition to get the name of the actual animal changed.
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Reminds me of when AIDS was just starting to make the news. A spokesperson for Ayds, the appetite-suppressant candy, said, "We were here first. Let the disease change its name."
 
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scotpens said:
Reminds me of when AIDS was just starting to make the news. A spokesperson for Ayds, the appetite-suppressant candy, said, "We were here first. Let the disease change its name."
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I remember that!

:lol:

Good move.
 
They should offend the middle age women's younger selves and call the mascots the Foxes.

Hey who wouldn't want Jimi's "Foxy Lady" as a fight song?
 
Quoting The Miz, "Really? Really? Really?" This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I think I've ever heard of, especially since, as that article points out, there are a number of other institutions of education (including BYU and one of my elementary schools, Kanesville) in the state that use the cougar as a mascot.
 
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