Posted on 07/01/2014 12:07:37 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952
Corner Canyon High School hasn't even opened yet, and it's already facing controversy.
The new school, scheduled to open in 2013 in Draper, Utah, announced this week that it had chosen its mascot and school colors.
According to KSTU-TV Fox 13, future students within the school's boundaries were mailed ballots to vote for the sports teams' colors and mascot. The colors navy, silver and white were selected and the Charger was named the mascot -- the first in Utah to use it.
The Chargers wasn't the most popular team name with the kids. Instead, the top name was the Cougars, getting 23 percent of the votes. Other choices included the Chargers, Diamondbacks, Falcons, Raptors, Broncos, Bears and Cavaliers.
But the Cougar was rejected as the mascot because board members decided it might be seen as offensive to middle-aged women.
As pointed out on TV shows like Courteney Cox's "Cougar Town" and Tina Fey's "30 Rock" (one episode titled "Cougars" featured the 41-year-old Fey going on a date with a 20-year-old), the term has become popularly known to describe an older woman who dates younger men. Even online dating websites have popped up specifically for the "cougar" crowd, connecting interested males with females that are 15-30 years their senior.
There are, of course, other teams that already use the team name Cougars, including three other high schools in the state. As Prep Rally points out, even Utah's biggest college, Brigham Young University, uses the animal as its mascot which is probably why so many kids voted for it.
But those teams existed before the term "cougar" had its place in popular culture and it became more common for stars like Demi Moore to date someone half her age, such as her ex-husband Ashton Kutcher. Back then, a cougar was just a fierce animal also referred to as a puma or mountain lion.
So did the school board need to worry about its teams being associated with the new connotation?
"Sensitivity and political correctness regarding the names of athletic teams has officially reached a ridiculous peak," USA Today wrote.
What do you think? Is Cougars an offensive name for a team?
Even Sophia Loren Herself is still too young...
Petula Clark is (ISTR) real close and the girl still has *pipes*!
Sick school board ,they only about one type of Cougar
They could change the name to “MILFS”..........
so it a thread about “Cougars” and you post photos of some old clapped out ride from the 70’s
kind of Freudian don’t you think ;)
Back then, we only saw two cougars in those ads ...
And Freud was a complete perv.
Good grief.
Isn't that also offensive to women?
Maybe you're thinking of "The C-Cells."
Cletus - you’d win that bet!
I'd say give it at least four hours before calling your doc.
I just plan to stay here in the forest all alone and bleat loudly. ;^)
Brother...I KNOW that chick...known her since the 7th-grade.
Think it’s spelled “beat”.
Not very. I think the "mature woman seeking sex from young men" meaning is less than 10 years old.
It came in after they decided "MILF" was demeaning to the childless.
our world is going mad!!!!
Psalm 2:4 says “ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.”
What a description of our ignorant insane generation!!!
If this isn’t a parody, my country has gone insane.
Men do make the strangest requests.
You realize of course, that in tennis, love means nothing...
Not a parody at all. Just a dumb school board.
Correct but did you know that Pinocchio was a poor Motivational Speaker? :^}
Love, meaning zero (in tennis only), comes from the French word ‘l’oeuf’, meaning egg. ...
Thanks for playing, the best to you!
G.
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