When an older woman gets "hit on" by a younger man, why do people call 'her' a cougar?

When an older woman gets hit on by a younger man, why do people call her a cougar?
Seems like I get hit on by a lot of younger guys. And get some people I know tease me cuz they know I'm not like that. But others I've heard always call the women the cougars, but uh that's if "she's" into younger men:
(For those using the term wrong)
(For those using the term wrong)
But if it's the younger men chasing the older female it's more a MILF:
When an older woman gets hit on by a younger man, why do people call her a cougar?
Or at my age and the fact really am a grandma now to one 💜grandson:
Think it's more 🤣GILF:
When an older woman gets hit on by a younger man, why do people call her a cougar?
Me though:
When an older woman gets hit on by a younger man, why do people call her a cougar?
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  • Because people are idiots.

    • Some are, I agree there 🙂

  • Your assessment is accurate. I never really thought about it that thoroughly.

    So are you the chaser or are you being chased? lol

    • Nah I'm not the chaser lol I'm the one running away lol

  • I didn't think that was the case. I thought "cougars" are women who hit on younger men. I don't think there's a term for the women being hit upon by a younger guy, unless she's a mom, in which case she's simply a "milf". I suppose "milf" could double up as "mature woman I'd like to fuck" too, if she's not a mom. What's the term for the younger guy doing the hitting? ----- "Horn dog"

    • 🤣🤣🤣 lololol and you're right MILF can mean either mom or mature woman... GILF means grandma 🤣GGILF means great grandma , panther is when younger women hot on older men... Silver fox means older men, younger women... Jeesh all the labeling lololol

    • By the time you're finished figuring out the term, the sex is over and you're outa there !!

    • 🤣🤣🤣 maybe you.. I don't want sex with someone that wants to 'be "outta there"...

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  • I hope you know I'm not hitting on you. I just like you and respect you. Because I think you're cool.

    • Wait, why would you say that... I've never thought you were hitting on me.. I can talk and joke with anyone of any age and be fine, not think it's flirting... So no never did think you were doing that

    • Oh and I'm not being a cougar and hitting on you either 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @brainsbeforebeauty im hitting on you everyday, every chance i get. 😎😛

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  • Less embarrassing to call you a MILF and it's easier to call you a cougar. Is it right? No. But that's how it works I guess.

  • Yeah I wish I was 22, I would chase all the 40 year old ladies.

    • You can still chase 40 year olds 🤣

    • Yeah but I have more luck when bum twenty something, not grey, not getting older and fatter.

    • Work out.. And some guys can look sexy it distinguished with grey hair

  • Because calling a woman an ant eater just doesn't sound as sexy.

    • It's not the word, it's the word being used correctly

    • You hot and sexy whats wrong with that?

    • Nothing.. But I'm only a cougar if I'm chasing or dating younger men only, not if they chasing after me but I don't date younger guys.. See what I'm saying 🤷🏼‍♀️

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  • Good question. And why is it the reverse when it's an older man? Why is he a pedo or pervert while she's a cougar?

    • Good question! But there is another term as nother user mentioned, Silver fox

    • Silver fox only applies when he's renown and has loads of money, unlike her when she's the average anybody else.

    • Okay this is about mislabeling/misusing the term cougar... Not gender wars ...

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  • @nonfrivolous you're a cougar

    • roar

    • @Nonfrivolous 😍😍😍

  • Well I think you’re only a cougar if you’re approaching them not the other way around, not sure how that really originated though

    • Exactly! That's the point... Not the word cougar... That people misusing cuz apparently don't get what it really means lolol.. Thank you!

  • That's just the way it is

  • You go girl!! You still got it!! 😛😛😛

    • Lololol hahahaha ok 🤣

  • I have never heard of such parameters.

  • I don't know, that's just how it is

    • Only for misinformed... Who throw words out but don't know the definition

    • Plenty of people do that

    • Well maybe they shouldn't tho... Triggered is another one lolol usually thrown out there by the people getting triggered themselves 🤣🤣

  • Because she is old an still sexy not like some other's that think they are.
    God Bless

    • That's not the definition of cougar tho.. Definition of cougar is the woman chasing after younger men, but when they doing the chasing if she not into younger men, can't really call her couger...

  • Your not a cougar a cougar is a older want that goes after younger guys

    • I know that lol this ain't just bout me, lolol people have said that to me jokingly... But I've seen other catty females try insult women probably cuz they jealous guys their age hitting on older women call women cougars. No sweeties, that's more called MILF or if you my age, GIlf 🤣

  • Because she has experience in the sack unlike girls that are 18-25 that just lay there

    • The question wasn't why guys like older women... But there see, if they going after her that's more a MIlf... Cougar is a woman that going after young guys, people using the term wrong... If young guys hitting on her but she ain't into that, that's hardly a cougar...

    • True but they are more attractive

  • She is only if she accepts

    • 🤣🤣 touche lolol

    • See I am not as stupid as the liberals here say I am

    • Careful now you starting to sound like you bringing politics into it... And neither Trump Nor Biden can be called a Cougar or a MILF not even if it meant man I'd like to fuck lolol so 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ lolol

  • We have known a few "cougars' but they were doing the "hunting" and not the one being "hunted." So if you're not "hunting" for younger men, you can't be classified as a "Cougar."

    • Exactly! Thank you... Think you the only one that got the point I'm trying to make lololol

  • She's only a cougar if she is the one pursuing the younger man.

    • Exactly! I know that lol too bad most people using that word so much don't lolol

    • Are you a Cougar?

    • Not even close lolol

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