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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: gcparent

But it true.

I remember Sue Hubble discussing this in her book about Bee keeping. I read it in my mid thirties.

She spoke about once a woman is over a certain age men do not register them as present or women to really see. She talked about the freedom of being invisible.

Years later, as attractive as I am, I see the difference in the male response when I walk into a restaurant or store. It is nothing bad,it is just different. Men are attracted to young women. They do not see the older one. I imagine there is an biological issue here.


61 posted on 01/08/2019 8:23:28 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Please send me her email address


62 posted on 01/08/2019 8:25:45 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama was slapping on all those police agencies.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Someone posted his picture above. I doubt he is charming. He looks like Mr. Bean needing a shave.


63 posted on 01/08/2019 8:26:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: chrisser
Seems to me the guy’s just pointing out reality.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

64 posted on 01/08/2019 8:26:21 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: for-q-clinton

16 years old in heart, 50 years old or more in body. Immaturity is an apparent hallmark of Frenchmen.


65 posted on 01/08/2019 8:33:23 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DuoSr3SsoQs8&ved=2ahUKEwjJ-bi_zt7fAhVMFzQIHRhBCyoQ3ywwAnoECAoQJw&usg=AOvVaw2KygRBts8ajP1IvSPB7c7G


66 posted on 01/08/2019 8:34:36 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama was slapping on all those police agencies.)
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To: nikos1121

"...true love and companionship..."


In my experience the majority of men and women are typically attracted to age-appropriate partners to typically match their years.

We will naturally see the "extremes" of older guys with younger women or older women with younger guys...yet that is seemingly a minority observation. Most birds of a feather flock together.


67 posted on 01/08/2019 8:35:39 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Bullcrap. There are smoking hot 50 year old babes and nasty, crusty, out of shape 25 year olds galore. And way too many with gross tattoos.


68 posted on 01/08/2019 8:44:58 AM PST by montag813
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To: Blue Jays

Well, what is age appropriate. I think a man marrying a gal 5 to 15 years younger is a good thing, especially if he provides for her. I think a woman marrying someone much younger, is going to have issues at some point in time.

It all comes down to the same things, regardless of the country or the ethnicity. You grow together thru respectful argument, and requires you to listen and adapt to your partner. If you don’t do that, then it doesn’t go anywhere.


69 posted on 01/08/2019 8:46:17 AM PST by nikos1121 (The Patriot is a scarce man. The timid join him only when his cause succeeds, Mark Twain)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Former Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas married 23-year-old Cathleen Heffernan when he was 67. And he was not immensely wealthy.


70 posted on 01/08/2019 8:46:24 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: nikos1121
Well, what is age appropriate. I think a man marrying a gal 5 to 15 years younger is a good thing, especially if he provides for her. I think a woman marrying someone much younger, is going to have issues at some point in time.

For a 40 year old man, the main reason to marry is to have kids, which means that it makes sense to seek a woman who is still in her most fertile years (20 to 35). If he's not interested in kids, it makes more sense to just live with her, and avoid the risks of divorce-rape.

71 posted on 01/08/2019 8:51:09 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Likewise!
She is sexier than many women in their 20’s.
She didn’t believe me when I first told her.


72 posted on 01/08/2019 8:55:54 AM PST by Zathras
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Biological attraction is what it is, they can’t be dictated by someone’s standards.

I find a 35 or 40 year old woman with a nice figure to be quite attractive.
I’m not deluded into thinking they would have the same attraction for me at my age.

And who cares what a bunch of men hating feminists think anyway? Nothing a man says or does is going to make them happy.


73 posted on 01/08/2019 8:56:52 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: utax

Asian Women...bring LOTS of money!!!
If you think you have enough...you don’t.


74 posted on 01/08/2019 8:57:25 AM PST by Zathras
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
😂
75 posted on 01/08/2019 8:58:05 AM 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: Georgia Girl 2
When you are 25 a 50 year old guy is hard to love unless he's got a lot of money.

Not necessarily. I love older men, and even find very old men very handsome. Buddy Ebsen sat at the next table from me at a restaurant once. I thought he was one of the most handsome men I had ever seen. Unfortunately, I was on a date and couldn't flirt with him. LOL

76 posted on 01/08/2019 8:58:34 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: gcparent

No because they don’t have a penis usually

But the average fifty year old woman has a fraction the sex drive of a fifty year old man

And less emotional availability

It’s just life

Men don’t cheat at that age for someone younger simply cause they are so hot

It’s more than that

Most women get old in many ways

I know you hate to hear it


77 posted on 01/08/2019 9:00:35 AM 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: rightwingintelligentsia

He’s being truth shamed.


78 posted on 01/08/2019 9:04:36 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: onedoug

I could not handle a lifelong commitment to a woman that much older but she’s certainly very cute for her age


79 posted on 01/08/2019 9:05:38 AM 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: Fightin Whitey

Sad fact is most women her age don’t look that good

Maybe one in 100


80 posted on 01/08/2019 9:07:19 AM 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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