I got a great laugh from The Daily Show segment featuring Kristin Schaal’s take on older women as cougars trying to snare younger men. I thought it was even funnier when she labeled older men doing the same as Redenbachers. But really, isn’t this all about headlines, stereotypes and people trying to define some new space in their lives?
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As AARP leadership likes to point out, we are enjoying a longevity bonus of almost 30 years so can a cougar be an 80 year old woman with a 60 year old man? Could she be fifty and him thirty? If it’s not offensive for May and December to be wife and husband why not the other way? Are they committed to each other? Love each other? Have fun together? I have great friends who are happily married with a 20 year age difference, the lady of the house being older.
Gawker.com ran the segment and the comments that followed. Quoting from one of the writers “I think cougar celebrates the power of female sexuality and signals that society has finally accepted that women over age 35 often want the same things that men over age 35 want.” I say that goes for women and men over 50, 60 and 70. Be empowered. And the heck with what others think.
Eileen Marcus