Pumas and Cougars

My learning curve continues today! I found out all about Pumas and Cougars. Nope, not talking the wild beasts of the cat variety - I'm talking women!

From what I can gather it's all about older women who date (or otherwise) younger men. Women over the age of 40 are the Cougars. Women in their 30's are the Pumas, or Cougars-in-training. And the White-Tailed Deer? Well, being the natural prey of a Cougar, that would be a male specimen under the age of 30...

About a year ago I had a brief mini-crush on a guy who was a little bit younger than me. OK, I lie - about 10 years younger than me! Which, if I were 20, would be a whole lot worse than the 33 that I was. Age is relatively relative, after all. I considered being the Modern Woman and making the first move - but then thought better of it (ie came to my senses). Thankfully. I guess I would have been a Puma if I'd followed through on that one.

Is it a trend, this younger guy thing? Nah, not for me. Perhaps they're good to ogle occasionally, but when it comes down to it there's always a gap in life-stages, perspectives and interests that makes relating difficult.

Of course, science* has determined that women mature more quickly than men. Which is probably why you get more sugar-daddies than toy-boys in society. By the time a guy reaches 60 he's right around the maturity level of a 30-something woman... :-) Just a pity the rest of him has started to fall to bits.

*science: the art of reading random things online and stringing them together to form a theory