On Cougars, Catfights, and Cows
by Celeste Montaño Fox, cow, bitch, vixen, cougar, whale, chick. What do these terms have in common? They refer to animals. Anything else? They also refer to women. As someone who learned to speak English as a second language and was not surrounded by these colloquialisms at an early age, I remember being puzzled when…
