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NYT podcast celebrates cougars ‘objectifying the hell out of’ young guys — only in a psychoanalytical way, of course

Older women are dating younger men more often. Over the past two years, according to the dating app Feeld, men who are exclusively looking to date older women increased by 64%.

This stat raised an eyebrow with the women of the New York Times Opinion podcast, who decided it was a subject ripe for some intellectual debate.

Step aside Kim Cattrall as three progressive podcasters — Emily Leibert, Nadja Spiegelman, and Jamieson Webster — gathered to give the verdict on Cougars.

Except of course, this being the NYT, they’re reticent to use a term like “Cougar.” The discussion is instead labelled “Younger Men Are Flocking to Older Women.”

And they will have you know that getting with a younger guy is female empowerment. Objectifying a young man is the ultimate way to stick it to the man.

They talk about how amazing it is to get to “shape” a young man and “build” a boyfriend. They gloat about “objectifying the hell out of” boys in their 20s. They applaud women whose money attracts younger mates.

It’s the sort of stuff that would get a man fired if he said it about younger women. But, to these wonks who are holding a feminist theory seminar in a........

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