Faculty of Design

Illustration

Miranda Belen

Cougars and Silver Foxes

Illustration
2021
Gouache, Digital
“Cougars and Silver Foxes” explores how a slang term for an older woman has a negativeconnotation while a slang term for an older man has a more positive one. There is an obviousdouble standard in these two animalistic slang terms, and it is both interesting and concerningto realize the difference in connotation between the two. Here, a cougar finds herself corneredby hunting dogs while a pack of silver foxes gleefully gets away.

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Cougars and Silver Foxes
Cougars and Silver Foxes

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Miranda Belen aka. shiverspooky

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“"Choose Your Next Words Carefully" is a series of illustrations that reclaims commonly used phrases (as well as behaviours) with sexist, gendered undertones by subverting them in order to critique...” [More]