Katie Couric Thinks Cougar Label Is "Stupid"
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Credit: Courtesy of Harper's Bazaar
Sure, Katie Couric may be dating a younger guy, but don't go calling her a cougar.
"I just find it stupid, you know?" the CBS Evening News anchor, 53, says in the March issue of Harper's Bazaar when asked about the label. "I think it also surmises that the older woman is always the pursuer. That's not necessarily true. I always say that maybe the older woman is the prey and someone else is the predator. It's just silly."
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Even though NYC entrepreneur Brooks Perlin was 32 when he began dating Couric, she says the 17-year age is not a problem. "Except for, um, you know, he's never been married and he doesn't have children," she says.
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She says it's hard being a single mother to daughters Ellie, 18, and Carrie, 14 (Couric's husband, attorney and NBC News legal analyst Jay Monahan, died of colon cancer at age 42).
"There are times, quite frankly, when as a single mom, you feel very alone," she tells the magazine. "Ellie was sick after Thanksgiving with a virus and strep. She had a 105 fever, and it was really terrifying. I was running around looking for a thermometer in my building at 11:30 at night, and I was getting a fan, and my doctor said, 'You should put her in a tepid bath,' and she was all bundled up, and her temperature wasn't going down, and she was shaking because she was so cold."
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With her voice cracking, she continues, "In times like that, I just profoundly miss ...."
Unable to finish the sentence, the writer asks, Having a partner?
"Yeah," Couric replies.
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To be fair, I don't think cougar is a particularly offensive label. People, especially women, have started to use it positively as a form of sexual identity. Women wouldn't subscribe to sites like Cougared if they had a problem with the word!
Reading her frantic story about her kid's cold/ fever, I had to go back and make sure I'd read Ellie's age correctly, YEP, she is 18- EIGHTEEN YEARS, not months! I'd understand if that was the case. Plus, all the money she makes and the way she goes on and on about being proactive in ones health and she doesn't have a simply thermometer on hand??? And she tried to make Sarah Palin look stupid!
The thing with the younger guy is not going to last. He will want his own children. Katie is too old to provide that for him. Yes, she is a cougar and should embrace the idea. Never thought Katie was the brightest bulb in the box and turned the channel when her interviews came on.
Katie Couric is your typical kiss a^^ uneducated, misguided liberal. She has no problem collecting over 20 million dollars annually while nearly 150 people lost their jobs at CBS this week all because she fails to command an audience to pay her ridiulous salary. It would be beneath her to accept a pay cut to keep a single worker who lost their job this week at CBS. She is a sad excuse for a journalist (sic) and believes in her own twisted mind that her legs are her biggest asset. Funny how CBS was accused of tarting up the evening news by having her step away from behind the desk, when the truth is she wanted to be front and center as if she is still on the Today Show. It will always be "The Katie Show" to her in that feeble little mind of hers.
That weirdo posting always about Asian females -- what is his lil point??? Keeps saying the same stuff over and over??? Okay, okay, so you want to date em younger (sounds like a control issue to me :))), fine, but it's weird you have to mention having $$$$ loads, and that you'll still be gettin some -- ehh hheee hehe, ol' dog, yep it sounds like you'll be paying for "it" literally, like you probably are now...so irritating!
@Pat -- are you a moron or what??? The guy Katie has chosen IS LOADED -- duh! Check some facts before you assume the guy is using Katie or "needs her money!" MORON!
@Merlin...glad you largely agree; but you might not about what I was saying about some other women in the press; the point was just that women have the ability to choose, and given that some choose really well with younger guys suggests that women who have at times chosen what our society would call "age appropriate guys" suggests that there is NO guarantee for success. Man or woman needs to decide based on many things re: a mate. I brought up Edwards, Sanford, Dion, as women who many other women (at least up to now, where things, thank GOD are changing) would assume chose well, and "age appropriate" husbands didn't end up choosing well at all. So much of the right choice involves having and taking pride in onesself, and these women have in common that they've put up with plenty of crap and would likely never think that a younger guy could work for them because they are SO insecure, so dependent, seemingly so restricted. All three have and have had choices to make, but sadly all have failed miserably in the area of self esteem. Ultimately, this is what this is all about and that's why I date younger guys myself. Too many guys in their mid-30s and older into their 40s (won't even mention the even older fogies in their 50s and 60s) just don't "get women." Sadly, Edwards, Sanford, and Dion (and there are many others) probably don't see possibilities where there are so many -- self esteem is critical!
EvitaLuisa: I was with you up until you mentioned the recently cheated upon Edwards, Sanford, and Dion? But my curiosity piqued with Dion...did her husband recently cheat on her? or are you referring to the fact that he chased her down while he was still married and she was a teenager?
Katie needs a companion - since she's got so much money, she can choose whoever she wants; this guy is only in it for the ride. He gets to live it up and enjoy the life of the rich. She is most likely very bossy; she is lonely without her husband, so wonder how much she is paying this guy.
@big one: "what are you trying to convince us of?" .... actually I dont have to convince you of anything. I wasnt trying to. I was just saying what I think. You actually proved my point for me. If a woman says she likes someone in the low 20's, she is a "cougar" but if us white males around 30 say we like our females in early 20s... we are subject to fictional plotlines where an imaginary shrink says: "lock 'em up! NOW, before he's going after 12- and then 8-yr old girls....like the one they found dead in MD". How does liking 22 year old asian females equate to "killing 8 year old white girls"??? I find it ironic that here is an ENTIRE thread of women chearing on older women dating younger guys...but us 30ish guys (who are waaaay younger than katie).. are chastised for actually preferring our adult lovers young and early 20's. That bullying is how older women became popular to begin with. Its easy to be "hot cougars" when anybody who likes a young adult woman is a "child murderer". As for my "manhood", So what are you saying? Every guy with an "older woman" has a 12 inch dong????? hahahaha. Is that the new gossip going around? lol As for my "ugly mug"... not sure how one judges looks over the internet but thats my best feature! But.. I inherited enough money that when my looks fade.... I'll still be getting some. Your comment: "Women your own age, 'just too much'?".... lol how do you say that in a "cougar" thread and keep a straight face? @zara: "you have some growing up to do". If maturity means I have to call older women "cougars" and older white men "pervos" then.. I'm going to stay immature forever. Not all males are suckers.
I have a relative that works for CBS that has been affected by the layoffs. You cannot believe the animosity that is festering at this company because of Katie's ridiculous salary. I hope the "powers that be" wake up and realize that Katie's salary is destroying the company from within.
The whole cougar thing is stupid. Society puts a label on everything. Oh boy, you sure are stupid, dumb and an imbecile. I can't stand unintelligent people. Morons all of you.
Now if the shoe were on the other foot, Katie would be calling anyone else just what they are calling her. Nobody really cares who she is dating, but I am sure she likes the publicity it is causing.
WhiteEffingMale--you sound sick as all heck get out; look at your ugly mug in the mirror; if a shrink were to look at what you've written, they'd be like "lock 'em up! NOW, before he's going after 12- and then 8-yr old girls....like the one they found dead in MD". Wow, really weird; keep saying the very same things -- what are you trying to convince us of? Problems, ahem, with your "manhood"??? Women your own age, "just too much"? Comment boards should demand real-time id'd photos with these comments... something's not right....and several have mentioned that as well.... get help!
She is a perv!!!
WhiteMale..grow up! you sound so immature and silly always coming in here and posting your nonesense about whitemales and whitefemales over and over again.we get it you want to date younger women so what?whose holding you back?in most relationships men are oldr than women and that is the way of things,so you're not inventing it and you know why?cause we women mature at much younger age than you men. proof to that is you still got some more growing up to do..lol
Kate is stupid saying that - it is what it is - she is a cougar.
FAKE AZZ KHATE GOSSELIN IS UGLY INSIDE AND OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when this woman hits menopause, if she hasn't already, this guy is going to ditch this woman. He's going to want kids eventually (possibly) and she's not going to be able to give him that.