Cougar Mascot: Offensive to Middle Aged Women
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That sums this whole thing up perfectly.
Might I add, had the final choice actually been "Redskins," I bet they wouldn't have had any problem at all.
^ Not ALL of Utah is that stupid, and it's a bit unfair to classify all of us as such with comments like that.
I'm from Oklahoma. You get used to it.
Which was no doubt cover for "we don't want cougar jokes".
There, there.
Would you like Q to will into existence for you some hot 40-somethings and an inflatable pool filled with Astroglide?
If they're going to go that route, they might as well go all the way and call themselves the Barbie Dolls.
Yeah, I remember hearing their ads on the radio and cringing: "Ayds helps you lose weight."
This is what I was going to say. A Cougar is an older woman who is not only able but willing to go after and get younger, attractive men-- it means that she's both sexually attractive and liberated.
Of course, in Utah, these may be considered evil, liberal ideas.
I currently live in Utah and have lived in other states. This particular decision is actually rather un-Utah in that they did it for PC reasons and an effort not to offend anyone. Utah isn't really big on the PC thing. Of the places I've lived, I would much more expect to see this in California than Utah.
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...
Well, if the media says it's offensive, it is offensive. That's the world we live in. Sometimes people simply decide to be insulted by something.
So...I can decide to be offended by the fact that people are touchy-feeling assholes that need to stop hiding under the covers and grow a back bone and learn to deal with the world? Cool!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...
Well, if the media says it's offensive, it is offensive. That's the world we live in. Sometimes people simply decide to be insulted by something.
So...I can decide to be offended by the fact that people are touchy-feeling assholes that need to stop hiding under the covers and grow a back bone and learn to deal with the world? Cool!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...
Well, if the media says it's offensive, it is offensive. That's the world we live in. Sometimes people simply decide to be insulted by something.
If you can make a lobby out of it. You can certainly find an unemployed lawyer who's ready to sue.
Which, I guess, is part of the problem. There are way too many lawyers who a) have nothing to do and b) want their 15 minutes. Which is why every little shit is stirred up.
I went to college with a guy from Hereford, Texas. Their high school mascot is the Whitefaces, a breed of cattle.
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...
Stupidest thing ever. And this is coming from a cougar!