Elizabeth Taylor May Be Engaged Again, Feline Slang Failing to Keep Up

Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 78, has reportedly become engaged for the ninth time. Her fiance, 49-year-old Jason Winters, is a talent manager of celebrities like Janet Jackson. Should the two get to the altar, Taylor will match Zsa Zsa Gabor's record. As a side note, the most-married woman alive today has a staggering 23 marriages to her credit.

Taylor is one of those women whose ability to attract men was legendary in her prime and appears to remain strong with the passage of years. She and her fiance look very happy together. And those who use wheelchairs and have active love lives must be as pleased as senior women to see her going strong in the romance department. The one group of people who may need to rethink their attempts to label sexually active women would be those who created the concept of the cougar and its fellow wild cats.

UrbanDictionary.com's best consensus definition of cougar is a woman between the ages of 35-45 who is single and out for sex. The leopard is a woman of the same age who prefers to be pursued and isn't focused on younger men so much as a quality relationship regardless of age. Between 45-55, she is a jaguar. Over 55, the term is snow leopard. With the prior definitions having an age range and the 25-35 set receiving the label of cheetah to indicate they're aiming for cougar status, one can only assume that there is a ceiling of 65 on the snow leopard. Past that, is she meant to retire?

Clearly, Taylor hasn't put herself in a convent of the heart. But she's 14 years past snow leopard and was never that predatory on a wide scale to begin with. Perhaps it's for the best nobody's felt it necessary to describe a woman of her age with backhanded compliments of that nature. We can witness her joy and avoid the juvenile labeling many would wish to apply were both of them 20 years younger.

Many blessings and all happiness on the Winters-Taylor marriage. May it be her last, and may it last many years.