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Do Cougars Solve the Problem of Gender Discrimination?
Short Answer? No.

Cougars: NYC is endlessly fascinating, and the show itself hasn't even been fully cast yet. Just the fact that Cougars — older women who date younger men — steal a page from the gay handbook and call their partners "cubs" just shows the thin line these women tread between the absurd and the fabulous. Nothing wrong with dating younger men, but treating younger boyfriends like a piece of meat isn't going to solve millennium-old gender inequality. Which would seem to be the case to hear it straight from the cougar's mouth during another party/cattle call for the show:

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