French author, 50, says women over 50 are too old to love | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/07/french-author-yann-moix-sparks-row-with-comments-about-women-over-50
“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, adding that he preferred to date Asian women, particularly Koreans, Chinese and Japanese.
“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.”
(...)
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!”
’Prisoner of my tastes’ : French author defends remarks about women over 50 | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/08/french-author-defends-remarks-about-women-over-50-yann-moix
“I don’t see this as pride, but almost as a curse. It’s not my fault. We are not responsible for our tastes, our penchants, our inclinations. I’m not here to hold forth on this,” he told RTL radio.
Ce qui est extraordinaire, c’est que ce monsieur ne se rend pas compte à quel point ses goûts sont socialement construits et guidés par le privilèges dont il jouit en tant que vieux mâle blanc. Il se croit singulier, frappé par une malédiction très personnelle alors qu’il est un type comme les autres (qui n’ont pas beaucoup d’imaginations).
