At the coffee shop where I work, they keep showing the ad for Courtney Cox’s new TV show “Cougar Town.” At first I was thinking, “Okay, I guess, it has the potential to be funny. I like Courtney Cox and Cougars are cool.” But the more I watch the ad (it runs so often I have probably seen it close to 60 times now), the more it has started to bug me. There’s this one scene where she’s obviously gone to put on “something more comfortable” and her younger lovah is lying on the bed, waiting for her. But rather than having her march into the room and say, “Tah-dah! Here I am in all of my hotness!”, they have her turning down the lights so… What? The young man can’t see her perfect abs? Or her perfectly toned rear? He turns the light back on, because obviously she’s super hot and he wants to check her out, and she gets all shy like, “Oh, I’m so shy. Don’t look at my Pilate-d body that I only spent all day, every day working on this past month. The body that any 18 year old would be psyched to have. Please, I’m so embarrassed by my toned perfection. Look away.”
C’mon writers! Aren’t you missing the whole point of being 40 and being “a Cougar”? Have we learned nothing from Demi Moore??!! We don’t have to be shy about things like that anymore. You can be 40 and hot and still get to keep your hard won confidence.
I mean if I had that body I would be naked all day, every day. At my computer. At the grocery store. At the Gap. And people wouldn’t think it was weird I was naked because they’d be so busy admiring my hotness. They’d come up and congratulate me on all of my hard work. Actually, now that you mention it, that would be a really nice change from people coming up and congratulating me on my really smart brain, which is what currently happens. Like every day.
Hmmm… This is all making me feel like maybe I should go work out.
Since I’ll be busy for the rest of the day, here’s something else to keep you occupied – my “Fashion on a Budget” column where I give you excellent advice on how to buy glasses on the Internet, after which I tell you to hire a tailor and then descend into utter sentimentality. It’s not pretty but it’s probably better than working on spreadsheets or sales thing-ys or whatever else you’re working on.
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I thought the same thing about that promo for the show. And as much as I spew about skinny little bitches, I too would be a shameless whore if I had a perfect body.
I’m admiring your hotness from afar and congratulating you on all your hard work
You work at a coffee shop? Wha?
PS your brain is totally hot.
Only when I start to feel like our 500 square foot apartment is a bit too small and my husband is just a bit too close and and there’s no where I can go but the bathroom and even that’s just a hole in the wall and then the walls start closing in and it gets hard to breathe… Then, I work from the coffee shop.
Thanks, your brain is hot too.
OMG, I totally agree, if I was as hot as Courtney Cox, Demi Moore or Jennifer Aniston, I would walk around naked all day with 20 year olds fawning after me!!