The clash of cougars and pigs in a club in southern California has led to a $1 million lawsuit against G4, a “male-interest” cable station. Three women (who do not divulge their ages in the complaint) claim G4 Media filmed them, without their consent, for a show segment called “The Great Cougar Hunt.” The show defines “cougars” as “sexually cunning 35+ females on the hunt for a much younger energetic male.”
From Courthouse News Service:
Christine Torres and Charnette Hildreth say they were celebrating Tammi Tary’s birthday at the Chapter Eight dance club when an employee of defendant G4 Media asked if he could videotape them. The women say they refused…
Eight months later, the women say, they discovered “The Great Cougar Hunt” on G4′s cable station. The video portrayed their birthday party as a group of “older women” looking for younger men at a “world famous cougar hot spot.”
According to the complaint, the video describes “cougars” as the “easiest, most ravenous” prey for younger men.
The women say they were “not attempting to meet or ‘hunt’ younger men.” They say they do not even date younger men.
Spike TV has the offending clip here:
We think the XY contingent may want to consider filing a class action suit against the show for defamation of the male gender. The jerky show hosts are not likely to inspire much sympathy from a judge and jury… unless they’re all taken from the cast of Swingers.
‘We’re Not Cougars,’ Women Say in TV Suit [Courthouse News Service]
The Great Cougar Hunt [Spike]
