Glad to see it. If my 48-year-old mother started dating one of my former classmates, who is 19-years-old, I’d probably cut her off, too.

From Perez Hilton:

“Honestly, I don’t know what to say because I can’t relate to her right now. I’m extremely shocked. I know if I was 48-years-old, I wouldn’t date a 19-year-old. I just don’t feel it’s her. And through all this stuff, I really need my mom, and she’s doing her own thing. I don’t talk to her anymore. I see her at the jail visiting Nick and she asks me why. I say, ‘I don’t condone what you’re doing. I’m on my path, and you’re on your path.’ I told her, ‘I’d love to have you in my life, to see you and talk to you, but the kind of things you’re surrounding yourself with, it doesn’t make sense to me.”

I guess Linda’s got her priorities, and her daughter isn’t as important to her as the 19-year-old sex toy. Does this perhaps give us yet another example that the whole “cougar” movement is steeped in ultra-selfishness? You’d think that Linda might look at how this relationship is affecting her daughter and break it off for the good of her children. But NO. It’s so much more FUN! to date a 19-year-old, regardless of how your children feel about it. Who cares how betrayed and humiliated your daughter feels? You’re happy, and that should make your kids happy, and if it doesn’t, well then, too bad for them. They should be more accepting. Isn’t that right?

As I said,

Oh, and to Brooke? You do not have to support your mom in this. You have every right to tell her how selfish what she is doing is, and how hurt, angry, disgusted, betrayed, and humiliated you feel. You aren’t required to get behind something like this just because your mother has the maturity of a dysfunctional sixteen-year-old.

Glad to see that Brooke’s not hiding her feelings on this one.

Everyone has always known who Hulk Hogan is, but thanks to the VH1 show “Hogan Knows Best”, America has become acquainted with the whole Hogan family.

There’s wife ex-wife Linda, recently separated from the Hulkster:

Then there’s older daughter Brooke, who’s mostly known for her trailer-trashtastic get-ups she wears while “singing”:

And finally, there’s the youngest, Nick, who got the spotlight for making a United States Marine who’s served multiple tours in Iraq, John Graziano, a vegetable. He’s now serving out his prison term, where he’s been whining to Mommy and Daddy about how horrible he has it, and Mommy cries that she’s suffering more than the Grazianos:

Just a charming, charming family.

When the show first started, while a little bit quirky, the family seemed mostly normal and well-grounded. Hulk and Linda seemed to have a solid marriage and a good relationship with their kids. Then, the facade crumbled. Hulk and Linda split up. Nick almost killed a Marine and is in jail. Hulk started dating Brooke’s best friend. And poor Brooke seemed to be the only one left without any issues, with the exception of bad taste in clothing.

And now, to add on to her pile of issues, her mom Linda has decided to become a cougar! 48-year-old Linda Hogan has started dating a 19-year-old boy — and not just any 19-year-old boy. Linda’s new boytoy is one of Brooke and Nick’s high school classmates. Unbelievable, huh?

Brooke Hogan’s reaction to her 48-year-old mom, Linda, dating someone 29 years her junior? “I’m totally freaked out,” she told E! satellite radio personality Michael Yo during a conversation the two had off air.

“I personally don’t like it at all or condone it, but she’s my mom, so I have to show her support.”

The Hulkster’s daughter also confirmed that mom’s man-child, Charley Hill, 19, was a classmate of hers and her jailed brother, Nick.

“I went to school with him. He was a grade under me…Me and Nick know him well. Me and Nick are two years apart, and he was right between us (in school).”

While nothing about the Hogans—perma-tans and peroxide ‘dos included—might seem normal to anyone else, Brooke says she thought her family was just a run-of-the-mill Hollywood clan, but that perception has changed a tad.

“I am just staying the course and dealing with it and supporting my family,” says Brooke. “I’m actually on my way to see Nick now…You know, I thought we were one of the normal Hollywood families. It’s crazy watching it all fall apart, but I hope for the best.”

And so we have yet another example of why the so-called “cougar” lifestyle is so horrible.

How incredibly selfish must you be as a mother to do something like this without caring about the effect it will have on your children? It screams self-absorbed. I wonder if Linda — and the other cougars out there — ever stop and think about how it makes their children (and other family members) feel to watch them acting like they’re 18 again. It’s sad and pathetic, which we all already know, but also in my humble opinion extremely selfish. You can’t let your life revolve around what other people will think of you, but I would certainly think that if you’re a good person who loves your family, you wouldn’t want to put them in this kind of situation to begin with. You’d say no to dating your kids’ classmate because you’d know how it would make them feel, know the chaos that they would struggle with over your actions. You’d say no to dressing like a 45-year-old Paris Hilton wannabe or drinking like a frat boy. If you can’t find enough respect for yourself to not do dumb things like this, then at least think of your family.

What Linda Hogan is doing is demeaning to herself, humiliating to her daughter, and quite possibly exploitation of a 19-year-old kid who probably doesn’t know what he’s getting into. It’s not only sad and pathetic, it’s also wrong. We shouldn’t be glorifying women who lead these “Sex and the City” lifestyles. It’s not healthy for anyone involved.

Oh, and to Brooke? You do not have to support your mom in this. You have every right to tell her how selfish what she is doing is, and how hurt, angry, disgusted, betrayed, and humiliated you feel. You aren’t required to get behind something like this just because your mother has the maturity of a dysfunctional sixteen-year-old.

Last night, I went to the Landing with my boyfriend to get dinner. It’s right on the St. John’s River, it was sunset, we thought it would be a nice night. Little did we know that the quarterfinals of the Hooters Bikini Contest were being held there. So much for a romantic dinner and stroll down the St. John’s, huh? We decided to just eat dinner and go home, as it was crowded and noisy, and the Barbie Brigade was everywhere.

We ate dinner on the patio. There was a large group sitting near us of mostly younger girls and guys dressed for clubbing. The girls were wearing tight jeans or short skirts, stiletto heels, and shirts that showed the maximum amount of cleavage and/or stomach without being completely indecent. They were drinking and being generally loud and overly flirty, hanging all over the guys they were with and cheering on the Hooters girls.

With them were two older women, in their 40s or 50s. They were dressed the same way and acting the same way as the girls they were with (their daughters, maybe?). In fact, I think they might have been outdrinking the younger girls. The younger girls were much better behaved, actually. While, yes, they were cheering on the bikini contestants and being a little rowdy, the cougars put them to shame. Their clothes were skankier, their jeans tighter, their heels higher, and their drinks emptied faster. They were dancing on the patio in their slutty clothes, screaming “WOOOOOO!” over and over again, and flirting with every man that so much as looked their way.

I wanted to scream at them, “ACT YOUR F*CKING AGE!”

There seem to be more and more forty-something women who think it makes them look “flirty” and “fun”, or “young” and “hip”, or whatever, to act like they’re still eighteen. Um, newsflash ladies: it doesn’t. It makes you look like a pathetic older woman trying to desperately hang on to your youth at any cost. The words “aging gracefully” obviously never crossed these ladies’ minds.

For you men out there reading this, I’m curious what your thoughts on this subject are. I honestly can’t understand why so many older women are acting like they’re still in college. What kind of image are they looking to portray, and guys, is it attractive to you? It just seems to me like another remnant of the Boomer idealogy to never grow up at any costs.

As much as I was annoyed and repulsed by these women, I was embarassed for them. And if that was my mother acting like that in public with me, I would be embarassed to be seen with her. My mother is a beautiful woman who has aged well (she barely looks her age), and she’s still energetic and smart and living a full life. But she by no means is trying to live the same kind of lifestyle that twenty-year-olds are living, thank God. I mean, really, aren’t you supposed to grow out of that kind of behavior at some point?

It’s not like you have to start living like a nun the minute you turn forty. But good Lord, exercize some self-control and restraint! You can have fun without dressing and acting like an eighteen-year-old drunken sorority girl. For all you cougars out there, please grow up. It doesn’t make you look sexy, young, or fun to act like you’re eighteen.