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French author, 50, says he's incapable of loving a woman of 50

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    #872
    DS86DS
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    Clementine Echoing Squalor wrote: »
    Think this might mean that a 69-year-old man, whose wife was 8.5 years younger than him (and whom he married when she was nearly 37 and he was 45 and they remained together until he died) wouldn't fancy you, Candie, a woman in her early 30s I believe.

    Then again, maybe that's not what the poster means - it's hard to know, when they communicate in insults so much.

    You don't get it.


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    #873
    [Deleted User]
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    Clementine Echoing Squalor wrote: »
    Think this might mean that a 69-year-old man, whose wife was 8.5 years younger than him (and whom he married when she was nearly 37 and he was 45 and they remained together until he died) wouldn't fancy you, Candie, a woman in her early 30s I believe.

    Then again, maybe that's not what the poster means - it's hard to know, when they communicate in insults so much.

    Well it's hard to hear, GaP, but somehow I'll cope.

    He is deceased though, which makes it easier to deal with the implied and hypothetical rejection. :P


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    #874
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    DS86DS wrote: »
    You don't get it.

    Do we have to just guess what you mean? Is Bowie's ghost haunting you and preventing your fingers from reaching the keys you need to come out and say what you mean? That's a pretty Bowie-ish haunting.


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    #875
    goat2
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    glasso wrote: »
    obviously most men prefer younger women but this guy got some serious reaction against him for stating his preference. what do you think?

    justified? or just older women threatened that they are sexually irrelevant?


    A popular French author and television presenter has caused outrage after claiming he was “incapable” of loving a woman aged over 50.

    Yann Moix, 50, told a glossy magazine: “Come on now, let’s not exaggerate! That’s not possible … too, too old.”

    In the interview with Marie-Claire magazine’s French edition, Moix, the author of several prize-winning novels, added that women in their 50s were “invisible” to him.

    “I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all,” he said.

    Moix has won several literary prizes including the prestigious Prix Goncourt for a first novel and the Prix François Mauriac from the Académie Française for his 1996 debut work Jubilations Vers le Ciel, has directed three films and is the host of a popular TV talkshow.

    His comments caused outrage on social media.

    The journalist and writer Colombe Schneck, aged 52, published a photo of a backside on her Instagram account. “Voila, the buttocks of a woman aged 52…what an imbecile you are, you don’t know what you’re missing, you and your tiny, paunchy brain.”

    Feminist author Mona Chollet said Moix was a “sad sire”, while Laura Hulley, from the political section of the British Embassy in Paris, tweeted: “Happy new year, sexists everywhere!”

    Former first lady Valerie Trierweiler tweeted here about Moix in the context of the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

    French MP Olivia Gregoire, a spokeswoman for Macron’s La République en Marche (LREM) party, tweeted: “Very classy Yann Moix. Very very classy. But like stupidity and vulgarity have no age, it’s reassuring in his case as I doubt many women want (these qualities).”

    Do most men not like younger women,


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    #876
    DS86DS
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    Tommy Kind Parakeet wrote: »
    Do we have to just guess what you mean? Is Bowie's ghost haunting you and preventing your fingers from reaching the keys you need to come out and say what you mean? That's a pretty Bowie-ish haunting.

    He is and I always make sure that I'm lying on my back.


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    #877
    Gimme A Pound
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    DS86DS wrote: »
    He is and I always make sure that I'm lying on my back.
    Ah ok. Apologies.

    Think he said himself that he was both into dudes and ladies.


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    #878
    Gimme A Pound
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    goat2 wrote: »
    Do most men not like younger women,
    Lots do anyway. Most probably fancy them.


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    #879
    anewme
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    Candie wrote: »
    He is deceased though, which makes it easier to deal with the implied and hypothetical rejection. :P

    This thread is a Gift that keeps on giving.

    There's some real Mensa candidates in here.


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    #880
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    I think Bruce Springsteen and Christoph Waltz are both good examples of good-looking older men. I love Christoph Waltz. He is gorgeous.


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    #881
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Candie wrote: »
    Jagger is not an example of aging well. He's shrivelled and wizened looking, regardless of his apparent fitness. I've members of my own family who would leave him in the dust.

    I totally agree, I think he looks awful. And like many aging celebrities, both male and female, the clear effort to look younger only make things worse. If these celebs just accepted the aging process, they’d be better off.

    But Jagger is often trotted as an example of aging well which never fails to bemuse me. It mostly seems to be down to his lepping around various stages because it can’t be about how he looks, right? RIGHT?


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    #882
    Nadal Topspin
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    Men generally peak about 10 to 15 years after women typically peak in my opinion.


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    #883
    Gimme A Pound
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I think Bruce Springsteen and Christoph Waltz are both good examples of good-looking older men. I love Christoph Waltz. He is gorgeous.
    Bruce Springsteen looks amazing.

    I don't think Waltz is gorgeous myself (although he still looks great) but his talent and charisma and proficiency with languages are seriously attractive traits I think.


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    #884
    Nadal Topspin
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    Rod Stewart doesn't look too bad for a man in his 70's.


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    #885
    Sardonicat
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    Nadal Topspin wrote: »
    Rod Stewart doesn't look too bad for a man in his 70's.
    Rod looks like a walnut in a wig!
    Now Bryan Ferry ...


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    #886
    mvl
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    Nadal Topspin wrote: »
    Men generally peak about 10 to 15 years after women typically peak in my opinion.


    And I think it can also depend on the genes - what is applicable to irish may not be applicable to ... eastern european for example


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    #887
    joe40
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    Nadal Topspin wrote: »
    Men generally peak about 10 to 15 years after women typically peak in my opinion.
    For me its usually about 20 mins before!!


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    #888
    DS86DS
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    Lol at women putting down George Clooney.

    "I can't have him so he's not really that great"

    Such childishness. Men on average can't get female celebrities like Kim Kardashian, but we are adult about it and still say she's hot anyway.


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    #889
    joe40
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    DS86DS wrote: »
    Lol at women putting down George Clooney.

    "I can't have him so he's not really that great"

    Such childishness. Men on average can't get female celebrities like Kim Kardashian, but we are adult about it and still say she's hot anyway.
    There has literally been pages of posters (women I assume) giving examples of good looking older men. I was getting a wee inferiority complex.


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    #890
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    DS86DS wrote: »
    Lol at women putting down George Clooney.

    "I can't have him so he's not really that great"

    Such childishness. Men on average can't get female celebrities like Kim Kardashian, but we are adult about it and still say she's hot anyway.

    People are merely pointing out that he was better-looking in his 30s than he is now. Which is true.

    In ten years time, do you think men will say Kim is as good-looking as she is now? And if they note that she isn’t, does that mean that they are just saying that because they can’t have her?

    I’m sure you’ve noted a female celebrity at some point or other who you don’t think is as good-looking as she was. Again, does this mean you think that because you can’t have her? Or are you thinking it because it’s true?


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    #891
    ceadaoin.
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    DS86DS wrote: »
    Lol at women putting down George Clooney.

    "I can't have him so he's not really that great"

    Such childishness. Men on average can't get female celebrities like Kim Kardashian, but we are adult about it and still say she's hot anyway.

    Someone pointed out that he's not as good looking when he was younger, which it true. The exact same thing that's been said about various female celebrities in this thread..of course you would have to twist it to mock women ffs.


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    #892
    Arghus
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    Your statements of fact and logic are just going to bounce off and literally zero effect.


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    #893
    greencap
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    Tommy Kind Parakeet wrote: »
    I'd say he's had work done too, no way those lips are defying gravity by themselves!

    Mads Mikkelson is aging very well. Nearly painfully pretty as a young man, different kind of appeal now in his 50s but I'd say he'll still be hot af into his 70s.

    Weird the way this thread ended up being for tearing men's appearances apart :pac: fcukit it's almost the weekend, let's crack out the wine and start ranking them, might as well really lean in to this.

    and there it is.

    women don't have a ''different kind of appeal''.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



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    #894
    Gimme A Pound
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    DS86DS wrote: »
    Men on average can't get female celebrities like Kim Kardashian, but we are adult about it and still say she's hot anyway.
    Poor effort seeing as it contradicts what you've been saying for pages.


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    #895
    DS86DS
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    I am worried that this thread is resulting in a lot of ignored and hungry cats.


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    #896
    Omelette10
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    greencap wrote: »
    and there it is.

    women don't have a ''different kind of appeal''.

    "There's something about him", even ugly men can have that appeal. So many women find Gordon Ramsay sexy, look at the state if his face, but he's got a sexy personality that arouses a lot of women.

    Generally speaking women are attracted to confidence, dominance, charisma, status and social skills. Looks of course matter too, but the former traits have a more powerful affect on women in my opinion.


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    #897
    Sardonicat
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    Omelette10 wrote: »
    greencap wrote: »
    and there it is.

    women don't have a ''different kind of appeal''.

    "There's something about him", even ugly men can have that appeal. So many women find Gordon Ramsay sexy, look at the state if his face, but he's got a sexy personality that arouses a lot of women.

    Generally speaking women are attracted to confidence, dominance, charisma, status and social skills. Looks of course matter too, but the former traits have a more powerful affect on women in my opinion.
    Oh god no! Personality and features


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    #898
    Omelette10
    Site Banned Posts: 5 ✭Omelette10


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Out of the frying pan and insta ban.

    Stop flirting with me


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    #899
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    greencap wrote: »
    and there it is.

    women don't have a ''different kind of appeal''.

    Strongly disagree, as someone who's also attracted to women.

    And is that the point du jour you've decided is the crux of your argument? I can't keep track love.


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    #900
    Omelette10
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    Tommy Kind Parakeet wrote: »
    Strongly disagree, as someone who's also attracted to women.

    And is that the point du jour you've decided is the crux of your argument? I can't keep track love.

    Men's attraction mechanism works differently to women's, while personality can indeed make a woman more attractive, it is much more limited in it's scope compared to the power of a man's personality.

    Look at Conor McGregor for example, he would have no problem attracting beautiful women even if he had no money or fame. He's got the personality that attracts.


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    #901
    Sardonicat
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    Omelette10 wrote: »
    Tommy Kind Parakeet wrote: »
    Strongly disagree, as someone who's also attracted to women.

    And is that the point du jour you've decided is the crux of your argument? I can't keep track love.

    Meen's attraction mechanism works differently to women's, while personality can indeed make a woman more attractive, it is much more limited in it's scope compared to the power of a man's personality.
    Who's meen?


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