Cougars Rock The Boat, Again!

Posted by Pink Wrangler

January 24, 2010

Will the world ever be ready for the older woman, younger man equation? Carnival Cruise Lines says no, but recently some cougars rocked the boat, making it very clear, they’re not about to be thrown overboard.

There’s this notion among some feminists that the patriarchy uses all its power to suppress knowledge about female sexuality and the full extent of its power. Knowledge of said female power being enough to disturb world order and even the whole universe. (Sort of similar to knowledge that E=mc2, which if memory serves came out of a man, but that’s another story.)

That's Not a Cloud! That's Hot Cougar Steam!

So it wasn’t surprising when I read in TIME, that Carnival Cruise Line decided not to book anymore cougar-themed groups for cruises. It was just too hot to handle.

Sadly details were not forthcoming so we can only imagine, luridly. We know for a fact that last month, a three-day voyage on the Carnival Elation ferried a group of older women (“cougars”) who prefer younger men (”cubs”) between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico. We also know that will never happen again. At least not on a Carnival Cruise Line ship.

Carnival wouldn’t discuss the new ban, saying it was a “business decision.” They want to market themselves as a more wholesome, “family fun” cruise line. None of this cougars-gone-wild stuff. That apparently offends other passengers, who look on with gut-wrenching horror as a 50-something woman kisses a young Adonis while squeezing his buns.

I mean just how much can society take? Good grief, we still haven’t recovered from the recent “Mrs Robinson” sex scandal. I refer, of course, to the alleged affair between then 59 year old, Iris Robinson, wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, and a 19-year-old man, to whom she also gave $80,000 to set up a café.

Can’t a woman just like coffee—a lot?

Personally, I think women like our Mrs Robinson in Ireland and the floating cougars keep the world a fun, interesting place. Haven’t we had enough of the double standard where it’s okay for middle-aged men to chase younger women but middle-aged women don’t get similar latitude?

Miss Cougar America

As the current Miss Cougar America, 42-year-old single mother and Silicon Valley business consultant Gloria Navarro, who was on last month’s cruise, put it, “the day of the gold digger is over and women like me have finally come into their own.” Then she added, “I’d bet that among the wholesome Carnival passenger families, a lot of husbands are 10 or 20 years older than the wives.”

Touché, Miss Cougar America!

The TIME article goes on to report that cougars, being mostly savvy professional women of means, are “not easily thrown overboard.” They have already found other lines that aren’t as squeamish about May-December cruise groups.

I signed up for the one going to Australia. It’s the longest. I may never return.

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