A very popular French author and presenter has caused outrage around the world by declaring that women who are over 50 are “too old to love” and completely “invisible” to him.
Yann Moix – who himself is 50 years of age, told women’s magazine Marie Claire he was “incapable” of loving a woman his age, and preferred dating younger women, especially those of Korean, Chinese and Japanese descent.
“I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a 25-yr-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all,” said Moix, an award-winning author and TV host.
“It’s perhaps sad and reductive for the women I go out with but the Asian type is sufficiently rich, large and infinite for me not to be ashamed,” he told the magazine.
Moix’s comments attracted global outrage, particularly on social media, with one 52-yr-old journalist posting a now-deleted photo of her backside on social media to reputedly show her body was still “extraordinary”.
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