Utah’s Corner Canyon High School’s student body got together and thought the school mascot should be a Cougar. The alliteration is perfect, after all- Corner Canyon Cougars sounds like a kick-ass football team to me. But no. Mary Bailey, the middle-aged principal who frequents bars to pick up young men in their early twenties, thinks that a cougar mascot would be disrespectful to the ladies.

The Kauai Cougar

From CBS here:

One Utah school district believes a cougar mascot would be insensitive to women.

The Canyons School District overrode the students top choice of a cougar mascot for their high school that is to be completed in 2013.

Would-be Corner Canyon High School students chose the Cougars as their mascot — a name principal Mary Bailey said carries an ugly connotation that is disrespectful to women.

In popular culture, the cougar is a sexually aggressive middle-aged woman who attracts younger men.

The school board, which consists of six men and one woman, thought the Charger would be more appropriate, which was on the ballot but failed to appeal to students as the cougar had.

Lame. The kids should all show up to school in cougar print.


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