Uncontacted tribe sighted in Amazon: [link]

It took me far to long to realize you didn't mean Amazon.com!

Also, shrift, that is too, too, too funny!

Really? I think most of the big cats are attractive, what with the whole ultimate land predator thing they're working.

Yeah, the big cat is always sexy, but "cougar" is still a hard word, with the consonants. Sadly, "leonine" is not a noun.

OMG - no way would my cats let one of those stay on for more than a second.

makes me want to link to my all-time favorite wig: [link]

I've always gotten a really negative vibe from it, though I don't know that I could pinpoint why.

It's not a flattering term. The "flattering" term for an attractive older woman is MILF.

I've always heard the term "troll" for an old gay man who tries to pick up young gay men....

I think of "troll" more of an unattractive man who tries to pick up men out of his league. It CAN be an older man (and often is), but is also an unattractive younger man.

The "flattering" term for an attractive older woman is MILF.

That's yuck -- a cougar has agency of her own! The MILF is being seen through the male gaze t /women's studies

I've always gotten a really negative vibe from it, though I don't know that I could pinpoint why.

I think the negative vibe comes from the idea of being preyed upon. Which is why I think any big cat would have the same vibe.

Good thing it wasn't, say, "hyena" that got the nod.

but a cougar is an older woman dating a younger man and a MILF, is just an attractive mom, not necessarily dating a younger guy, right - different terms.

I've always gotten a really negative vibe from it, though I don't know that I could pinpoint why.

It's not a flattering term.

Well, for right now, we're talking about it outside of the May December meaning, just in the animal sense. Tiger, cougar, cheetah, leopard, lion...they all work for me in a sinuous, seductive, predatory sense. It may be that I'm willing to give credit to the syllables just because the animals are so efficient, though.

I've seen enough women stand up and claim cougar that I wasn't sure it was a negative term. It's not like all cougars have the options of calling themselves MILFs, after all.

I think the idea is, a MILF is always older than the [boy-person] contemplating her. Because, theoretically, there comes a point in a boy-person's life where the person he is F-ing is in fact likely to be an M, or even the M of children he fathered, but when he is looking at his wife, he does not think MILF. Because a woman his own age -- horrors!

This would be why men irritate me so much.

they all work for me in a sinuous, seductive, predatory sense.

How about liger?