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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

So I Tried To Watch Cougartown...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 8 2009, 10:57 AM ET Comment

It made me remember how much I actually like Courtney Cox. Unfortunately, they had to tie her to a narrative gimmick in order to get the show on the air. Call me sexist, but I'm not interested in sit-com tackling the worn out, "Why is that men get older they get hotter, while women just get older?" dilemma.

I don't doubt that there's some truth to it, but it's also reductive. I always liked older women, and I was never alone in that. Of course now that branding has taken over ("Dude, you're into milfs! Dude, she's a cougar!") I'm not so sure how I feel.


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