Everyone has their own preferences in terms of romantic partners. If you work out and are a busy bee, you might be looking for someone who can keep up with your active lifestyle. If you’re a big reader, you might want someone who can talk books with you, unless you’re someone who goes for the ‘opposites attract approach.’ Everybody is different, and all of this is pretty fair and understandable for the most part.
But then there’s popular French novelist and television writer Yann Moix, who has a preference toward younger women. About twenty-five years younger to be exact!
While speaking to French magazine Marie Claire, Moix expressed that he is “‘incapable’ of loving a woman over [the age of fifty]”, and that women over this age are “invisible” to him. Yikes.
The French novelist went on to justify his preferences:
I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a twenty-five-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of fifty is not extraordinary at all.
Since making these comments, Moix has come under fire from online critics, who have branded his comments sexist. Here is a selection of such tweets:
A haggard looking 50 year-old French author, Yann Moix, said he's “incapable” of loving a woman over 50 because they're "too old" and "the body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all"
After his classless and chauvinist display, few women of any age will want his saggy ass. pic.twitter.com/6LxZ8MeZMh
— ArianaGic/Аріянॳць (@GicAriana) January 8, 2019
Pictures of beautiful celebrities over the age of 50 have also been posted in retaliation.
so yann moix says the body of women over 50 is not extraordinary at all… well you’re not exactly idris elba are you? oh and by the way these ladies who are all over 50 say hey 👋 pic.twitter.com/kOIJZa3Lu3
— Ruby Naldrett (@rubynaldrett) January 8, 2019
Even news stations are joining in on criticizing Yann Moix!
French author Yann Moix believes women over 50 are too old to love. Lizzie Cundy says it's 'stupid' and a 'disgusting thing to say'. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/nuroSibimC
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) January 8, 2019
Yann Moix tried to make light of the social media outrage, stating:
I like who I like and I don’t have to answer to the court of taste… 50-year-old women do not see me either! They have something else to do than to get around a neurotic who writes and reads all day long. It’s not easy to be with me.
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, this publicity comes at a bad time, and only time will tell if women of any age are going to be sending roses to Yann Moix!
Featured Image via Evening Standard