"The Graduate" and the cougar phenomenon

This from the AI. I guess if it is from AI, there's no lies in it. I blush as I write this.... Anyway, here's some commentary upon the subject from moi. As usual, you can consider me full of sh.... too. But I wouldn't try to deceive. Nah, not me. The AI...

 

The 1967 film The Graduate is frequently cited as a cultural precursor to the modern "cougar" phenomenon, featuring a married mother who pursues and seduces a much younger man (21-year-old Benjamin Braddock). While the film popularized the theme of an older woman dating a younger man, the specific slang term cougar did not originate until later, with its first known print appearance on the Canadian dating website Cougardate.com possibly as early as 1999.

Although The Graduate established the narrative of an older woman actively chasing a younger man, sociological research challenges the extent of this trend in real life. Studies, such as a 2010 British psychological study published in Evolution and Human Behavior, have suggested that the "cougar phenomenon" is largely a myth or rare occurrence, with most men and women continuing to follow traditional gender roles where men prefer younger partners and women prefer older, established partners. Additionally, academic research by Milaine Alarie indicates that contrary to the aggressive seductress archetype seen in films like The Graduate, many women in age-hypogamous relationships do not depict themselves as the primary pursuers.

With respect to the "cougar" phenomenon, and the AI supplied info, I'll have to call "bullshit" on that one.

Why do you suppose that the AI is trying to treat this as a non-phenomenon? Of course it happens.

This, like a lot of other things, is just another example of the phenomenon ( in my opinion) of keeping something hidden, which actually exists. Perhaps not exactly in the movie way, but it is definitely something out there. Trust me on that one.

Here's another thought. The article seems to be discussing or denying that any such phenomenon as "cougar" exists, while basing it upon "studies". In my opinion, the "studies" may not have discussed this with MEN in order to see if anything like that happened with the men. Maybe the men would talk, and maybe they wouldn't. That's up to the dude involved. Dudes and dudettes aren't necessarily going to tell the truth about this stuff, lol.

What I'm saying is that you can take this "study" with a grain of salt. Women are probably more likely to believe the "study", because I think women are more gullible on average. Otherwise, they wouldn't be liberals.

Comment:

By golly,  I wrote about this movie before.

Update a bit later:

This looks just like the graphic of the 60's movie "The Graduate". The movie was about a cougar who seduced a young man, and how it got rather zany before the movie was over