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Is Air New Zealand's Racy 'Cougars' Ad Really All That Bad?

January 21, 2010 at 5:02 PM | by | Comments (0)

As a travel blog with both a specific Cougar Travel category and a generic Cougars category, we understand we might be a little biased on this question. But we're nonetheless a little bit skeptical about the controversy coming out of New Zealand, where an Air New Zealand contest and ad is drawing vociferous criticism from rape prevention and survival groups. It's not that rape isn't a serious issue, and we're obviously not making the "men can't get raped" argument. It's just that we're having trouble seeing "pro-sexual violence" in this lighthearted campaign.

The contest offered cougars—defined for Air New Zealand's purposes as any 35+ woman who preys on men at least 10 years her junior—the opportunity to win free tickets to a rugby tournament. Contestants had to send pictures of themselves and their "cougar mates" out on the town. The objections are coming from New Zealand's Rape Prevention Education, which insists that the ad&3151;the ad, not the contest—is degrading to women and insulting to male rape survivors. Again we're highly skeptical. Is it really the phrase "meat hungry cougars," which is one of the lines that keeps getting cited? Eh.

If nothing else, the entire absurdist tone of the fake nature documentary makes it hard to take anything about it seriously. Luckily the magic of the internet allows us to embed the ad, which we've done after the jump. See for yourself.

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Cougar Travel: Meeting Boys in London

Where: 80 Haymarket, London, United Kingdom, SW1Y 4TE
April 2, 2008 at 3:55 PM | by | Comments (0)

Ladies, need a lad or two to brighten up your dreary trip to London? Hit up the Sports Cafe on Haymarket, smack near all the touristy action of Piccadilly.

We hit up the Sports Cafe on Easter Sunday which just happened to be the day that Manchester United played Liverpool, followed by a match between Chelsea and Arsenal. Probably the biggest day of football for the year which means lots of dudes watching the games and drinking beer.

That day, the girl-to-guy ratio was approximately 15 to 1. We huddled in a corner on the 2nd floor to watch our NCAA basketball game on the lone screen that was playing it--the bar is friendly to American sports--and when we looked around there were no other girls in this section. Score.

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