Comments on: Catfight!!!!!!!!!

By: TVille

TVille — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:25:42 +0000

I just can’t take the labels anymore: cougar, puma…

It’s so much easier to label women than it is to JUST CALL THEM WOMEN.

Cripes.

By: 2becontinued

2becontinued — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:09:52 +0000

You know, this is almost as bad as when Cosmo made a new category for women 30+ who date younger guys (Puma, in case you want to know).

Almost but not quite.

By: aspiringexpatriate

aspiringexpatriate — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:26:04 +0000

I should’ve stopped reading at:
[A] 46- year-old permatan blond named Erica, was a coworker of his mom’s.

I mean, it might be correct grammar, but it certainly doesn’t look like it. Either “his mom’s coworker” or “a coworker of his mom” or even “his coworker’s mom” but as it is it’s just really confusing.

By: Khrushchev

Khrushchev — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:04:47 +0000

There is some girl-on-Kevin crime in this post, of which I do not approve.

By: braak

braak — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:47:10 +0000

@Sarah: Actually, there was a Tales from the Crypt episode that was basically exactly like that.

I mean, it wasn’t exactly a pillar of feminist principle, or anything, but it definitely revolved around a girl ending up with an old rich guy rather than a studsy young guy.

By: braak

braak — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:45:53 +0000

Well, as a guy, let me say that it is definitely true that all cognitive capability disappear in the presence of women. Choices? Reasoning? Future possibilities? These things are all meaningless once we’ve been exposed to cleavage.

How can we be expected to control ourselves? It’s unreasonable, I think.

By: sarah.of.a.lesser.god

sarah.of.a.lesser.god — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:39:53 +0000

@annimal: Seriously, you never see the reverse, like “Hef/Michael Douglas/Tony Randall stole my girlfriend away from me, the hot 20-something stud!”

By: annimal

annimal — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:16:11 +0000

Sssshhh, don’t you know, they send you an email when you turn 40 telling you all the secret tricks to being a cougar:-)
Seriously, I’m sick of all the ageism inherent in all of these cougar stories, not to mention the sexism.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:04:11 +0000

I used to be in charge of magazines at a B&N and I can tell you that Cosmo has about 5 stories that rotate over and over. Maybe all those Wonderbras are cutting off the circulation of the editors.

Cute kitteh though!

By: Blondegrlz

Blondegrlz — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:04:45 +0000

The whole magazine, of course, is geared at young women (when’s the last time it had a cover subject over the age of 35?)

Puh-leeze. No one over the age of 21 reads Cosmo with any seriousness. How many times can they publish the same damn lose-weight-with-this-one-miracle-exercise/make-him-call-move-in-propose/how-being-a-woman-will-get-you-raped-mugged-murdered stories? Although this vicious cougar attack story is just about the worst one I’ve ever seen.