Toronto is Cougar Town: local lady fingers Google for alleged sexism
The founder of a Toronto-based dating Web site is accusing Google of sexism. No, it’s not Ashley Madison, but it’s almost as good. Cougarlife.com, catering to older women looking for younger men, has been labelled as “non-family safe” by the Web search colossus, thereby excluding it from certain searches. Cougarlife.com founder and self-described cougar Claudia Opdenkelder argues that a double standard is at play, since Web pages encouraging older men and younger women to get together are still listed as “family safe” on Google. “Discrimination against the word ‘cougar’ makes it even worse,” says Opdenkelder. “It makes us—cougar women—feel like dirty perverts.”
Why a Web page for cougar love connections needs to be listed as family safe is beyond us (especially when it’s so simple to turn safe search off). But perhaps that’s a question best answered by the clientele of Crocodile Rock. Ladies?
• Cougars vs. sugar daddies: Dating website accuses Google of sexism [National Post]
You do know Ashley Madison and Cougarlife are founded by the same company, Avid Life Media, right? You make it sound like they are separate entities.
Claudia is not the founder or president of anything. She was hired by Avid Life Media to be the face of this particular branded site of theirs.
Her appearances on radio, TV and these comments are strictly meant to generate earned media. Avid Life is the PT Barnum of dating sites as evidenced by their Ashley Madison campaigns and this release.
Though I don’t care about this ridiculous website, I agree that sexism exists around women who date younger men. No one bats an eyelash when an old man dates a young woman, but when the reverse happens, there’s a derogatory term (cougar) for it. If nothing else, the above website perpetuates the myth that a woman dating a younger man is only in it for sex.
Google has its point.
Get a life u cougar ladies over 35, stop using us young guys for your sexual release and pleasure, instead find men your age and look descent for once in your life. Just face it ladies your old, youth has left u long time ago. Stop using young men, let them find their same age group. And Claudia u look like a mommy next to your bf. He looks way to young for u.
A WARNING ABOUT SITES LIKE MATCH.COM. Match.com allows people who do not live in town, who are of wrong age, who are married or otherwise in relationships to date on its site. So they may not be thieves but they are looking to take ADVANTAGE OF WOMEN.
I have noticed that since 2009 a lot of men who would have actually used prostitutes have moved to sites like Match.com to find sex and they will lie through their teeth to get it. I know one guy who actually put down he is 44 but is actually 51, wants kids but doesn’t, doesn’t live in the location his profile indicates, has been incarcerated, and generally has a pretty incorrect profile. Also he is in a relationship with another woman in the city he actually lives in. All of this I reported to Match.com…and they will not shut down his profile. They continue to keep it up…knowing that the entire profile is a lie.
I think Match.com specifically has become a magnet for men who were otherwise no longer able to afford prostitutes and now come to the site for the same…only they pay 10th of the price and lie to the women to take advantage of them.
Online dating…especially Match.com are the way of johns.com now. Any decent person who is looking for a real relationship…BEWARE!!!
If the man is an American, I suggest you do a complete background check on Intellus.com site where you can find out the real age, if they are married, if they have a criminal background or otherwise are lying about where they actually live. It costs about $12 and is worth every penny!
Rsponding to Mike on”get a life cougars”
The sexy cougars are getting a life when they get me and get away from fuddy duddy no spark flat assed man boobs bear belly. I love mature women because they finally see the light . As for getting girls my age? You Old disgusting so called men are still manipulating minds of both your ex wives and trying to pry open girls my age leaving nothing for me . So it is time to let women know what time it really is. Women of Beauty is any age. You sound disgusting like slime, your jealous and can’t handle what you had!!!!