What's with all this talk of 'cougars'? | Hadley Freeman

Why are women being labelled like animals in the zoo for dating younger men?Pot-bellied pigs? So 90s. Labradoodle? How noughties. There's only one animal to mention these days if you want to look ever so now, darlings, and that's the cougar. Flatteringly, this term does not refer to an actual animal but rather to women. To be precise, a woman who is involved with – no, no, cover the children's eyes! – a younger man.With the likes of Demi Moore, Madonna and Sam Taylor-Wood all...

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