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French author Yann Moix, 50, calls women over 50 'too old' to love, sparks outrage
Cox Media via WPXI | January 8, 2019 | Michelle Ewing

Posted on 01/08/2019 7:16:10 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

PARIS - A 50-year-old French author is under fire on social media for saying he couldn’t love a woman his own age.

According to USA Today, BBC News and other outlets, Yann Moix made the controversial comments in a recent interview with Marie Claire France.

"I'm telling you the truth," the TV host and "Rompre (Breaking Up)" writer said in French. "At 50 years old, I am incapable of loving a 50-year-old woman."

When asked to explain, he said: "I find that too old. When I'm 60 years old, I'll be able to do it. Then 50 years old will appear young to me."

But for now, women his own age are "invisible" to him, he continued.

“The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary,” he said. “The body of a 50-year-old woman isn't extraordinary at all.”

Outraged women flocked to Twitter to slam Moix, calling his words sexist.


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KEYWORDS: dating; love; marriage; men; women; yannmoix
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To: Mr.Unique

Who wouldn’t want to have the body of a 25 year old again. There was a twilight zone episode about that. TY I will keep my mind and experiences. If i follow my family I have another 25 years left. I’m glad I am old. Child of 50s and 60s. Grew up with faith, family, patriotism,respect.


101 posted on 01/08/2019 11:07:25 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

So sad to watch my beloved country go down the drain.


102 posted on 01/08/2019 11:09:02 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: vetvetdoug; Buckeye McFrog
I know a lady who, at 62, has an absolutely fantastic body

I know one too, I hope she's not the same one you know.

Yeah well, you know the rules :) TTIUWIOP

103 posted on 01/08/2019 11:23:12 AM PST by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He has a right to his own preferences just as anyone else does. If he doesn’t like old lesbians then that’s his business.


104 posted on 01/08/2019 12:09:14 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Mr.Unique

For me it’s my personal experience and observing my peer group.

I’m under no doubt whatsoever that women’s sex drives collapse at a certain age whereas men’s remain relatively steady.

If your wife is unique like you than you’re lucky buddy and the exception which is why I generalized

I don’t know one man over fifty who claims he and his wife are on the same network sex drive wise unless she’s much younger

I’m sixty one and have been married twice and have five children

I had major experimental heart work in Chicago last April which besides keeping me alive did wonders for my pipe resiliency but I sure have nothing against ED drugs except they are crazy expensive but alas sildenafil now truly is made generic in 20mg according to my pharmacist friend

Speaking of which why would horny women complain of ED meds.....it bears a question to my mind

I’ve found when women instinctively desire a child with you that it drives their horny meter off the charts

Then after that is sated it ebbs a bit but still burns hot

The real killer is menopause....I am a big believer in HRT....cannot overemphasize it

It’s not complicated nor new in history we just live too long now

The irony is the real time women love and want you purely physically or emotionally is teens and maybe up to late 20s

Then it all becomes practical considerations

They need a drug to enhance the female libido after a certain age

And before you go ad hominem about my attention to my partner let me prewarn you that you don’t know what what you’re speaking of

Even Uber O gals change drive wise....now that is truly sad

It’s one thing for a mandal wearing bobbed haircut no makeup green toe nails friar tuck looking old lady to go asexual

It’s a whole nother thing when a hot fifty year old lady just quits caring

It took me a long time to wonder why men I knew cheated.....it wasn’t young stuff

They wanted someone to be nice to them

My mom used to harp on taking care of your man...I know that’s old fashioned now

Women today wouldn’t even consider sexual responsibility to their man...

Mine does actually

And i assume so does yours


105 posted on 01/08/2019 1:50:26 PM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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To: wardaddy
...you don’t know what what you’re speaking of...

We are in the same boat, then.

106 posted on 01/08/2019 2:05:09 PM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Mr.Unique

If you think men and women after age fifty maintain similar sex drives

Then you’re prone to believing things as you wish they are versus reality

I don’t know a thing about you

You could be a splittail running a male nick

Who knows

I’m me I don’t hide

My homepage is replete with me wife family dogs horses kids etc

You could be pretending

Not worth further argument

But I stand by my assertion and I bet honest polling would back me up


107 posted on 01/08/2019 2:32:04 PM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

25 yro women have to realize that so many men HAVE to use viagra just to get their little members to work so don’t expect to get a 25 yro guy’s enthusiasm.....sorry, just the facts...


108 posted on 01/08/2019 2:37:26 PM PST by cherry (official troll)
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To: wardaddy
Not worth further argument.

Were we having an argument?

109 posted on 01/08/2019 3:12:14 PM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Well, size does matter, I am told!


110 posted on 01/08/2019 3:16:56 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Who?


111 posted on 01/11/2019 2:20:02 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The body of a fifty year old guy is, in general, not that appealing.

However when it is YOUR 50 year old guy, different thing entirely. You see him as the guy who stood beside you through thick and thin. The one who held your hair when morning sickness was making you throw up your toe nails.

The one that you kissed when he returned from deployment.

When you have built a life together you don't see the body so much as you see the soul.

Maybe he should find someone to build a life with.

Or he can keep chasing young girls who will only have sex with him for personal gain. And laugh at the pathetic old geezer.

His choice.

112 posted on 01/11/2019 2:50:22 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: G Larry

I think you are right, but regardless, if he has no interest in anything romantic with women his own age he may be destined to be a lonely old man. I say that as somebody in the same circumstance who has no interest in women in their mid-fifties or forties for that matter.


113 posted on 01/19/2019 1:21:59 PM PST by MSF BU
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To: Buckeye McFrog

True, but if he’s not interested in some fifty year old why should he waste their time. Would you want to be going out with somebody who found you repulsive romantically?


114 posted on 01/19/2019 1:23:28 PM PST by MSF BU
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To: chrisser

The guy is pointing out reality, a sad reality.


115 posted on 01/19/2019 1:24:38 PM PST by MSF BU
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Voici le grand sac de douche:

Proof the the French mated with small, large-eyed primates.

116 posted on 01/19/2019 1:28:31 PM PST by x
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