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"Isn&amp;#x27;t the term &amp;quot;cougar&amp;quot; getting old? Michelle Pfeiffer seems to think so, and frankly, I agree...The word has been thrown &amp;#x27;round everywhere: TV Land had a Bachelorette-style dating show called The Cougar, SNL did a skit with Cameron Diaz called &amp;quot;The Cougar Den,&amp;quot; Katie Couric used it in a guest speech at Princeton(!), and ABC even has a show about it this fall starring Courtney Cox. (The title? Cougar Town, naturally.) The always gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer with her young Cheri love interest, Rupert Friend &amp;quot;I so hate that term!&amp;quot; says Michelle Pfieffer in a recent interview. &amp;quot;Colette wrote these novels [about older women with younger men] so long ago, but even today they&amp;#x27;re ahead of their time in the way we perceive women&amp;#x27;s power and sexuality.&amp;quot; Amen, sister! I used to think of &amp;quot;cougar&amp;quot; as just fun, pop culture-y verbage, but now it seems to turn women into a weird caricature. Just check out this definition I dug up from urbandictionary.com: * Cougar (see also hunt, prowl, corner, pounce). Noun. A 35+ year old female who is on the &amp;quot;hunt&amp;quot; for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. The cougar can frequently be seen in a padded bra, cleavage exposed, propped up against a swanky bar in San Francisco (or other cities) waiting, watching, calculating; gearing up to sink her claws into an innocent young and strapping buck who happens to cross her path.&amp;quot; Doesn&amp;#x27;t that seem a bit predatory to you? Or desperate? You don&amp;#x27;t hear everyone throwing around the term &amp;quot;panther&amp;quot; left and right, so what&amp;#x27;s with the &amp;quot;cougar&amp;quot; overkill? What do you think? Is &amp;quot;cougar&amp;quot; just a quirky, sorta powerful and sexy term? Or do you agree with me and Ms. Pfeiffer that it&amp;#x27;s time we let it die already? Any other pop culture words that make you cringe? (Joanna&amp;#x27;s friend Jenn hates the term &amp;quot;nuts.&amp;quot;) P.S. More on dating younger men without all the &amp;quot;cougar&amp;quot; references: Being younger man magnet, celebrity women who date younger guys and why younger men are so darn appealing. Get Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter. Friend us on Facebook. Add us to your Google homepage. Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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