The Ladies Room: Cougar Competition

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Far be it from me to tell a lady not to get her swerve on, but the cougar craze is starting to make me nervous. As a woman in her twenties, it’s hard enough for me to find a good man. I don’t need to compete with my peers and their moms.

I’m sure cougars are still just girls at heart. They are probably as emotionally messy as they might have been in their younger days. But shows like Cougar Town and The Cougar are creating a terrible standard. Sexually confident, classy older ladies with rock hard abs, who are absolutely past the desire to bear additional children – how could a twenty-something girl compete? Truly, it’s a dream for younger men who aren’t looking to commit yet.

Though I haven’t been overwhelmed by older women at the bars and clubs vying for the attention of the same men, I am starting to hear stories crop up among male friends about various encounters. Certainly the trend cannot be completely ignored.

Okay, I’m slightly jealous of the allure. Girls in our twenties are painfully lacking in mysterious magnetism. Our male counterparts have us pegged because they have similar life experiences by this point. Getting out of college, trying to find a good job you can tolerate and paying all these new bills.

Enter cougar. She’s experienced more of life, both in and out of the bedroom, she’s generally interested in something without strings and has her own money (or her ex-husband’s money…whatever) so no guy has too much to worry about here.

Usually, we’re still looking for potential husbands. We are looking for a relationship and possibly children. We worry if you’re going to call or not. Basically, we’re man-kryptonite.

Bottom line girls, we’re going to have to take back the dating scene. If you see a cougar sipping a martini and entertaining a gaggle of young men, I want you to put down the tequila, get off the bar and class it up a bit. Order yourself a vodka and tonic and start reminding those boys that twenty-something girls may be clingy, complex or looking for more…but we won’t wake you up early on Saturday mornings so we can get kids to soccer practice.

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