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

#1 · 08-01-2019 4:32pm #1

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).”

Mr. Incognito · 08-01-2019 4:33pm

i think he was very articulate and honest.

It's amazing how everyone is entitled to their opinion on not allowing other people have an opinion.

Good for him I say. And I will get on with my life without being offended.

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 4:33pm

His president will keep the oul wans busy.

Grayson · 08-01-2019 4:35pm

On one hand it's not wrong for someone to say that they are attracted to a particular type. On the other hand saying that women over 50 were invisible is a bit of a dick move. there's more to a woman than their age/appearance.

I'd view it the same way if he'd said women with small breasts are invisible to him. He's very shallow.

eviltwin · 08-01-2019 4:36pm

Meh, it's his personal taste, don't see why it's worthy of a debate. He prefers women in their 20's, fair enough.

DontThankMe · 08-01-2019 4:37pm

Have to agree with him when he says:

“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,”

I'd rather be feeling some nice melons compared to some prunes.

08-01-2019 4:37pm

Gravelly wrote: »

His president will keep the oul wans busy.

it's rumoured that he likes the lads really.

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 4:39pm

glasso wrote: »

it's rumoured that he likes the lads really.

Heard that alright - if so, yer man will have a clear field altogether as the prez will keep the oul wans and the young lads out of the game.

08-01-2019 4:39pm

here's the wan who posted her arse btw. hard to tell if it's a decent one. judicious angle

Feisar · 08-01-2019 4:39pm

Muckka · 08-01-2019 4:39pm

I myself prefer to be single, I think I'm Asexual.

Chips Lovell · 08-01-2019 4:40pm

Hands up who's heard of Yann Moix before today?

Hands up who's heard of him now?

I'd say Monsiour Moix is feeling very pleased with his day's work.

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 4:40pm

eviltwin wrote: »

Meh, it's his personal taste, don't see why it's worthy of a debate. He prefers women in their 20's, fair enough.

Can't be saying things like that, we needed to get offended on behalf of these women, getting offended on behalf of others is vital in these challenging times.

spurious · 08-01-2019 4:40pm

I don't think they will be beating his door down, whether he thinks he is capable of loving them or not.
Can't find any info on any relationships he has ever had.

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 4:42pm

Baron de Charlus wrote: »

Hands up who's heard of Yann Moix before today?

Did he play outhalf for Biarritz back in '96?

Autecher · 08-01-2019 4:43pm

Grayson wrote: »

On one hand it's not wrong for someone to say that they are attracted to a particular type. On the other hand saying that women over 50 were invisible is a bit of a dick move. there's more to a woman than their age/appearance.

I'd view it the same way if he'd said women with small breasts are invisible to him. He's very shallow.

Yeah their cooking ability is also important.

Arghus · 08-01-2019 4:43pm

I'm amazed this is news. He's just expressing his own personal taste in women.

08-01-2019 4:45pm

I hope he's okay with being deemed unlovable too. Plenty of people in the age group he's attracted to wouldn't be remotely interested in a guy as old or older than their dad.

He's entitled to his preferences, but how you state them (if you really must) can make you sound like a boor.

alchemist33 · 08-01-2019 4:46pm

I'm surprised the British embassy had an opinion on this, and that opinion was "sexism" even though there's no sexism.

Outlaw Pete · 08-01-2019 4:47pm

If a famous woman in her 50's said the same they'd be celebrated for expressing their sexual desires and anyone that criticized the comments would be told that they were just intimidated by strong women.

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 4:47pm

Candie wrote: »

I hope he's okay with being deemed unlovable too. Plenty of people in the age group he's attracted to wouldn't be remotely interested in a guy as old or older than their dad.

He's entitled to his preferences, but how you state them (if you really must) can make you sound like a boor.

I've a feeling that if his new found fame helps him get the leg over a couple of 20-somethings, he won't give a ****e if the rest of the world hates him.

eviltwin · 08-01-2019 4:47pm

Gravelly wrote: »

Can't be saying things like that, we needed to get offended on behalf of these women, getting offended on behalf of others is vital in these challenging times.

I am one of those women, well near enough. I would bet my house he'd be repulsed by me and that's ok. I'm secure enough to know my worth isn't determined by whether or not some random person would shag me. We all have our own personal preferences don't we?

Rory28 · 08-01-2019 4:48pm

Candie wrote: »

I hope he's okay with being deemed unlovable too. Plenty of people in the age group he's attracted to wouldn't be remotely interested in a guy as old or older than their dad.

He's entitled to his preferences, but how you state them (if you really must) can make you sound like a boor.

A (presumably)rich French author. Yea no 25 year old academic type will be interested in him. Come on now, be reasonable.

Arghus · 08-01-2019 4:48pm

Candie wrote: »

I hope he's okay with being deemed unlovable too. Plenty of people in the age group he's attracted to wouldn't be remotely interested in a guy as old or older than their dad.

He's entitled to his preferences, but how you state them (if you really must) can make you sound like a boor.

In some other quotes he acknowledges that he wouldn't consider himself to be a catch either.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 08-01-2019 4:49pm

French culture, movies and literature often promote the older man younger woman scenario.

Wonder how much of that is a true reflection.

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 4:49pm

alchemist33 wrote: »

I'm surprised the British embassy had an opinion on this, and that opinion was "sexism" even though there's no sexism.

Middle-aged male saying anything that's not utterly sycophantic about women = sexism.

If he's white, they'll probably shoehorn racism in there too.

Arghus · 08-01-2019 4:50pm

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

If a famous woman in her 50's said the same they'd be celebrated for expressing their sexual desires and anyone that criticized the comments would be told that they were just intimidated by strong women.

You gotta love how you saw an opportunity for some wimmin bashing in even this subject.

08-01-2019 4:50pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

French culture, movies and literature often promote the older man younger woman scenario.

Wonder how much of that is a true reflection.

totally normal in some societies.

very frowned upon in Ireland I would say is the common reaction.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 08-01-2019 4:51pm

He’s in fairly good nick for 50.

conorhal · 08-01-2019 4:51pm

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

If a famous woman in her 50's said the same they'd be celebrated for expressing their sexual desires and anyone that criticized the comments would be told that they were just intimidated by strong women.

Like Germaine Greer for example?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/11/highereducation.news2

"The first thing that strikes you about Germaine Greer's new book 'The Boy' is just how lovely it is; page after page of sheeny illustrations of fine, languid boys as seen by artists from Praxiteles to Annie Leibovitz. But this is much more than a great coffee table book. In it, Greer is asking us to celebrate the evanescent loveliness of boys, but to do so in a very serious way."

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 4:52pm

eviltwin wrote: »

I am one of those women, well near enough. I would bet my house he'd be repulsed by me and that's ok. I'm secure enough to know my worth isn't determined by whether or not some random person would shag me. We all have our own personal preferences don't we?

I'm married to a woman not too far off it too, and I'd imagine she wouldn't give two f**ks what some (probably mediocre) French author thinks of her. If only everyone was like that, we wouldn't have all the secondary offense we have today.

suicide_circus · 08-01-2019 4:52pm

it's a lot to do with genetics. some people in their 50s look great while some in their 20s are wrote-off. but then the amazing looking 50 plusers look "amazing" because they look young.

riffmongous · 08-01-2019 4:52pm

Another snowflakes getting offended by snowflakes thread? Where would after hours be without them eh

08-01-2019 4:52pm

Gravelly wrote: »

I've a feeling that if his new found fame helps him get the leg over a couple of 20-somethings, he won't give a ****e if the rest of the world hates him.

It's not worth hating him over, he feels how he feels.

I think his mistake was saying love instead of attraction, I wouldn't call any group impossible to love - but there are plenty of things I find unattractive and in common with him, people in their fifties don't do it for me either. Possibly because I'm 32 :pac:

Chips Lovell · 08-01-2019 4:52pm

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

If a famous woman in her 50's said the same they'd be celebrated for expressing their sexual desires and anyone that criticized the comments would be told that they were just intimidated by strong women.

You've really got a chip on your shoulder about women, if you think that's what would happen.

Dakota Dan · 08-01-2019 4:54pm

eviltwin wrote: »

Meh, it's his personal taste, don't see why it's worthy of a debate. He prefers women in their 20's, fair enough.

Really, why did he run to a women’s magazine with his opinion then? To get a reaction or looking for attention more like.

08-01-2019 4:55pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

it's a lot to do with genetics. some people in their 50s look great while some in their 20s are wrote-off. but then the amazing looking 50 plusers look "amazing" because they look young.

Genetics is a cop out in a lot of cases. A lot of people in their 30's/40's/50's don't do enough exercise and eat too much crap food.

eviltwin · 08-01-2019 4:55pm

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Really, why did he run to a women’s magazine with his opinion then? To get a reaction or looking for attention more like.

New book coming out?

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 4:55pm

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Really, why did he run to a women’s magazine with his opinion then? To get a reaction or looking for attention more like.

Did he run to the magazine, or did they run to him?

Women's magazines seem to love telling women what to hate about themselves.

Church on Tuesday · 08-01-2019 4:56pm

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).”

Interesting.

As regards women in their mid twenties having bodies you might describe as 'extraordinary', from my experience this really entirely depends. Many women in their 40s plus are incredibly beautiful.

As for the 'woke' journalist. Wow. talk about letting the side down. This is why I can't abide 'woke' women like this; permanently outraged.

Dakota Dan · 08-01-2019 5:04pm

Gravelly wrote: »

Did he run to the magazine, or did they run to him?

Women's magazines seem to love telling women what to hate about themselves.

They probably put an ad in a national paper, moderately well known man in his 50’s wanted to give his opinion on women over 50. Somehow I doubt it.

Skylinehead · 08-01-2019 5:04pm

Baron de Charlus wrote: »

You've really got a chip on your shoulder about women, if you think that's what would happen.

Sunflower 27 · 08-01-2019 5:04pm

I'm 46 and his comments don't bother me. I look after myself, feel young, never had children (personal choice) and am often mistaken for much younger. I'd say my body is in great shape and certainly don't feel invisible.

As a 25 yo would I be attracted to a 50-year-old man? Never.

We clearly weren't meant to be ðŸ˜‚

wakka12 · 08-01-2019 5:10pm

Dont see how it's sexist really. Majority of women arent conventionally attractive by that age, but neither are the men, so the annoying thing is he is no more attractive that the women hes putting down, he'll never get a 25 year old woman so its pretty irrelevant

Anyway there are some women who look great in their 50's if they keep themselves really well, and equally there are many millions of obese 25 year olds in the world

Gravelly · 08-01-2019 5:12pm

Dakota Dan wrote: »

They probably put an ad in a national paper, moderately well known man in his 50’s wanted to give his opinion on women over 50. Somehow I doubt it.

Or, they could have approached him for an interview. Magazines do that I believe. Sounds a little more plausible than him phoning them up and saying "hey, I want to insult oul wans, you are a women's magazine, how bout it?"

OldRio · 08-01-2019 5:12pm

Sunflower 27 wrote: »

As a 25 yo would I be attracted to a 50-year-old man? Never.

We clearly weren't meant to be &#55357;&#56834;

And what about the Multi millionaire 50 year old French Author?

Outlaw Pete · 08-01-2019 5:13pm

Nixonbot wrote: »

Mods endorsing posts which attack a user personally now.

Have you read the charter?

08-01-2019 5:16pm

Gravelly wrote: »

Or, they could have approached him for an interview. Magazines do that I believe. Sounds a little more plausible than him phoning them up and saying "hey, I want to insult oul wans, you are a women's magazine, how bout it?"

yes - I'm sure that the interview in total also covered more than this subject alone. we don't know if the interviewer went after this subject either.

Sunflower 27 · 08-01-2019 5:17pm

OldRio wrote: »

And what about the Multi millionaire 50 year old French Author?

No. Not every woman is impressed by money. Sleeping with a 50yo at 25, no way.

08-01-2019 5:18pm

wakka12 wrote: »

Dont see how it's sexist really. Majority of women arent conventionally attractive by that age, but neither are the men, so the annoying thing is he is no more attractive that the women hes putting down, he'll never get a 25 year old woman so its pretty irrelevant

That isn't remotely true, either in France or Ireland.

Ever notice Donald Trump is married to someone who looks-wise seems to be out of his league? It's a mystery and yet, it's common, if only there was an explanation...

Rory28 · 08-01-2019 5:20pm

Sunflower 27 wrote: »

No. Not ever woman is impressed by money. Sleeping with a 50yo at 25, no way.

Not every woman and its not just women. There are sugar daddys a plenty on the gay scene as well.

Also Bradd Pitt is 55.

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

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