New Zealand: Airline’s ‘cougar’ ad blasted by rape victims

Article here. Excerpt:

'AUCKLAND, New Zealand - An advert for an airline competition that portrays older, single women as "cougars" who prey on young men at night is to close on Monday after incurring the wrath of both male and female rape victims in New Zealand.

"Cougar" has become a popular term for sexually aggressive older women on the hunt for younger men, with actress Courteney Cox recently starring in TV comedy "Cougar Town." But the term can be viewed either as misogynistic or a word of empowerment.

An online spoof documentary by Air New Zealand, promoting a competition for free tickets to a rugby tournament, tells of a so-called cougar starving herself during the day then "hunting large slabs of meat at night" by stalking young men at a bar.
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New Zealand's Rape Prevention Education has labeled the ad appalling, disgusting and degrading to women, adding that some Air New Zealand staff were also concerned about the promotion.

"They find it degrading and that it is encouraging potentially harmful behavior, so my question is why is our national carrier promoting sexually predatory behavior?" director Kim McGregor told the NZ Herald newspaper.

"We have also had complaints from male survivors who have been raped by women and they are very distressed that their situation is being laughed at and made out to be humorous."'

"Slabs of meat" and it's "degrading to women". Huh??

That' s right up there with "The Ministry of Love" - you know, that big windowless building where they tie you up for days until you confess to anything they want you to. Feel the love, baby! But at least they mention male rape survivors... in the closing paragraph, of course...