On Cougars and Creeps

Cute, you went cherrypicking for random links to argue like a pedant. I will now adopt your strategy, and make you look like a chump with it. Watch and learn.

Your wiki link lists 8 random men under "people with the nickname" of Silver Fox. It includes a mormon leader, but nobody currently notable or named with sexual implications. (You know, the topic we are discussing). Except Anderson Cooper, who I already mentioned. But look, they missed a more notable one for that list. What's a celebrity list without a first lady?

Barbara Bush: Nicknamed "the Silver Fox": 809,000 google results

silver fox woman: 80,500,000 results

How about that. I have put my "google shoes" on, and showed that "silver fox" is not just used in reference to men.

GILF = Grandmother's I'd like to fuk... I call them Silver Fox's

Q: What is the female equivalent of a silver fox?

A: The same term can be applied to women even though you mostly hear men being called "silver fox." It's gender neutral.

Wikipedia: "Sugar daddy is a slang term for a man who offers to support a typically younger woman or man after establishing a relationship that is usually sexual." Does it say anything negative? Nope. How about the dictionary? " A wealthy, usually older man who gives expensive gifts to a young person in return for sexual favors or companionship." The judgeable attribute is wealthy... AKA powerful.

Let's refer back to the OP's article:

there really is no glorified title for an older man who slinks after younger women -- at least not one that carries the same sexy, powerful and arguably positive connotation as a middle-aged woman escorting a young man.

Actually, we already went through this: It's "silver fox". A term for men and women.

Your 1926 Saturday Evening Post link contradicts your other one claiming "term of endearment" for "sugar" to start in 1930. Not that it's a big difference; we can credit them for estimating close enough to prove that there actually was no other meaning for it at the time.

Sugar babies candy: developed in 1935, named after the song called "Let Me Be Your Sugar Baby", later developed into a 1979 musical, which use it as a term of endearment and say nothing about older men (the topic here). That's 44 years in which it didn't take on the meaning.

So, there you go. As I stated, the original article has a false premise about the term "cougar" having no positive male equivalent, and it makes your indignance about this look stupid. Enjoy being a loser!