Cougars - this is your year

Courtney Cox in ABC's CougarTown

 
Don't take my word for it, Newsweek is calling 2009 "The Year Of The Cougar".

In Cheri, Michelle Pfeiffer (51) returns to the big screen and jumps into the sack with a guy about half her age, Rupert Friend (27). In My Life in Ruins, Nia Vardalos (46) romances the Greek actor Alexis Georgoulis (34), and there's not a word of dialogue in the screenplay about her robbing the cradle. In Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep (who turns 60 on June 22) plays real-life kitchen cougar Julia Child. And then there's The Rebound, Catherine Zeta-Jones's (39) September movie about dating a 25-year-old guy, andCourteney Cox TV show Cougartown.

Demi Moore and Katie Couric aren't to blame for all this, and Hollywood insiders are pleading innocence, claiming that they aren't necessarily trying to hop on the cougar bandwagon

But that raises the question: are cougars really what women want to be? And that's where all of this gets dicey. What is a cougar???

Women over 40 are not predators on the prowl for younger men. In my Real Cougar community we have thousands of women - corporate women, successful entrepreneurs, smart women who are in loving relationships with younger men. How does this make them predators? I am so tired of the outdated, prejudicial double standard that society insists on imposing on us. Men never have had to endure this embarrassing display of disrespect on or off the screen.

Go ahead and read the Newsweek article. And in case you don't have time right now, I want to tell you how they decided to end their piece. "Here's to you, Hollywood, for trying something old and something new. But by next year at this time, the cougar will probably be extinct".

That's where they are so wrong. Older women and younger men have been falling in love since time began and that's not about to stop anytime soon. So just get over it!

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