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As for the sex with husband scene she actually does feel fat which is why she doesn't want to have sex, her friend calling her a whore (she's sitting there in a nighty) is to spur her on. Later on her husband says something to her and she says "is it weird I think you're sexy" or something along that line. So I really didn't get the impression they were making jokes about older people having sex.
As for the neighbor saying she couldn't bag a younger man, he's obviously just trying to get her goat. As someone suggested in a previous post I imagine he will become of particular interest for her.
The show is funny and I'm glad Cox picked up something else so quickly. She does funny well. I never got into Dirt but she really hasn't had much luck with new series after the almighty Friends.
As for the title, it seems appropriate for the show otherwise what would they call it: 40+ woman has sex with younger man? No, I don't think so. I don't like the fact however that there isn't a term for men who date younger women. Someone should come up with something--I'm actually shocked no has by now.
09/27/09
They could definitely be more creative and less offensive. That said, they probably went for offensive on purpose, because there's no way nobody in production saw that title and said "hey, I think that's a bit offensive"
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Is the last lady wearing the bow bun like Lady Gaga?
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Why can't we go back to a simpler time, where women aged in private, alone, with nothing but their cats to keep them company?
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Because there's something really jacked up about that - we get a measure of confidence, and are suddenly no longer cuddly, cute, fluffy little pieces of ass... But have claws, fangs, and a thirst for the easy prey.
Is it too early for a little (ah, crap - unintended pun alert) caterwhauling against the patriarchy?
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Repeat until urge to bang head against keyboard becomes unbearable.
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Maybe if hot older guys were treated with the same mysterious awe and wonder and trepidation with which we treat hot older women, it wouldn't be such a big deal. Like, maybe the problem is that we treat a hot middle-aged woman as some kind of rarity, like, WHOA, she's over 45 and HOT??? Whereas for dudes it's practically assumed.
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That is to say, I rarely hear anyone use the term "cougar" just to generally describe an attractive older woman (except in the case of Brooke Shields and that was indeed out of line) but more often to describe a particular type of older woman...the type that is very obviously in denial of aging and desperate to validate her beauty by clinging tenaciously to the trappings of youth (peroxide, frosted lip gloss, unflatteringly tight clothes, frat boys). There are women who are in fact ferociously single-minded about such things.
And come to think of it, there is an equivalent though less methaphoric term for men: Dirty Old Man. But just as we don't consider every older man who dates younger women to be a Dirty Old Man, perhaps it's a bit over-sensitive of us to assume the term "cougar" applies to all older women. Tellingly, I almost never hear it applied to Demi Moore.
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While this may be true for celebs, I'm not so sure that real guys age as gracefully as the stereotype. Maybe on the surface, but their "charismatic capital" doesn't go as far.
I think men who capitalize on "silver fox" status risk an awful lot. When's the last time you heard the phrase "dirty/creepy old woman?"
09/01/09
Now I'm going to feel redundant all day. =[
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It's a bit like when women way over 18 keep referring to themselves as "girls." It's undermining and sexism in language is one thing we can do something about right now.
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I've never heard "cougar" used without some hint of derision or mockery. It is emphatically not a neutral term.
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Kudos on the dirty old man.
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