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Women Like Dating Younger Men, Too! Color Me Surprised

9 min readMay 1, 2025

Cougars and Playboys — It’s not new, now it’s accepting.

If you go to the zoo, you gotta get the right cougar.

Madonna, Cher, and now Traci Ellis Ross are running their mouths about how they date younger guys. Wait till you hear about why…

We often hear about the trope of men chasing younger women and women seeking older, more established partners. Yet, recent research flips that narrative on its head, revealing that women may be just as drawn to younger partners as men — a revelation that challenges decades of assumptions about age and attraction.

I’m not remotely surprised.

So, what does this mean for dating today? Let’s dive in.

#1 | “Toxic Masculinity” or Just Masculinity That No Longer Serves Her?

Tracee Ellis Ross made it plain:

A lot of men my age are steeped in a toxic masculinity and have been raised in a culture where there is a particular way that a relationship looks… I just have no interest in it. And I will not do it again.

Let’s stop and unpack this.

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Mav Hamilton
Mav Hamilton

Written by Mav Hamilton

Author - The First Date Fix - Dating Coach - Content Creator -Dog Dad | follow me for some ramblings of a millennial who has dated. A LOT! TheFirstDateFix.Com

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