Cougar B.S.

Okay I get it. For some, calling people cougars is still as fun as growing a mustache is for a young guy or referring to people's haircuts as mullets (now one of the most over abused words). But when a 22 year old calls a 30 year old a cougar that's just straight up incorrect. According to cougardate.com (who may have created the term) cougars are women in their forties who smoke, drink and go to clubs to pick up young men in their twenties. Cougars are usually divorced, sometimes with cubs, and financially independent.

Now that definition is all fine and well. But when they create a t.v. show around a dufus named Jules (played by Courtney Cox) who has the body and mind of a 20 year old it makes me really upset. Why? Precisely for those reasons. She's 40. She's in such amazing shape that me at age 19 would be jealous, she has a successful business, a nice son and she acts like she's new to Earth. She does stupid things like smash cinnamon buns with the bottom of a frying pan and then eats them refusing to let others see her eat this unnecessarily smashed treat. What?! She is obsessed with being BFFs with the divorced hot a$$hole neighbor named Grayson (name vomit). She is dating a 20 something and either he or she is constantly bringing up something regarding her age. Oh and the first episode she brought this guy home, proceeded to start to give him a b.j. poolside and in walks her teenage son. Gross. Really? It's prime time telly people. How about they get caught making out on the couch. Oh did I mention she's got no class?

I mean her character is self loathing, socially inept, and pretty pathetic. It seems to be this is the general character portrayal for single women in their 40's and I think it's played-out. Just like The New Adventures of Old Christine. The show is quite a bit better, I love Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and she is a hell of a lot funnier, but Christine is still pretty pathetic. Because I'm irritated I cannot think of another show that has a 40 year old single woman living a fun life sans the juvenile factor of a drunk 17 year old at a party.

Maybe because I am getting older it is a more sensitive issue for me but there have got to be people watching this show thinking the same thing. It's always good when a show makes you feel better about yourself but this pathetic, "old", single chick schtick ain't for me.