Cat Ladies

20 Aug 2007 06:02 pm

Unlike Matt, I was familiar with the term "cougar" - a descriptor for older women on the prowl for younger men - but it's still a little weird to see it show up as a category in Mark Penn's ridiculously fine-grained typology of American voters. I thought of "cougar" as a pejorative phrase like "butterface" or "two-bagger," or at least a mildly offensive one like MILF - in other words, the sort of thing you'd hear all the time from a certain kind of guy, and absolutely never from a political consultant.

Comments (12)

Man, i'm not nearly as hip as you, Ross--although "butterface" and "MILF" are standards in my demographic's vocabulary, I'd never heard of the cougar before.

I think HRC would do well with the cougar vote, somehow...

Posted by Alex | August 20, 2007 10:00 PM

i thought there was a reference to 'cougar' in ocean's 13? 'butterface' i heard yesterday for the first time....

Posted by razib | August 20, 2007 11:46 PM

Alex, if you hadn't heard of "cougar" before, it's because you didn't watch that reality show on NBC. Then again, neither did I.

Posted by Peter | August 21, 2007 9:16 AM

i'm not sure MILF is an offensive term at all. it seems to have taken off with my 46 year old sister's friends as a self-descriptor, or as a term of approval for anyone who is of an age but still eminently do-able. just like the fags and niggers before them, the MILFs are owning what once owned them. you go girls, etc.

Posted by lucretius | August 21, 2007 11:27 AM

absolutely never from a political consultant.

At least not publicly....

Posted by Tiparillo | August 21, 2007 12:47 PM

Wow, Ross, that is some impressive insulting slang term knowledge you've got there. I hope to work all three into conversation this evening.

And Tiparillo, are you casting aspersions at Dick Morris?

Posted by Elvis Elvisberg | August 21, 2007 6:22 PM

"the sort of thing you'd hear all the time from a certain kind of guy, and absolutely never from a political consultant."

A lot of political consultants are a certain kind of guy ...

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