My hope is that his younger female fans will realise that one day they too will be be 50 and ‘too old to love’ and stop buying his books.

[Unfinishedkitchen]

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/07/french-author-yann-moix-sparks-row-with-comments-about-women-over-50

I'm sure he must be Very Important.

Still has a face like a slapped arse, though.

I wouldn't lower my standards to fuck somebody that looked like him.

I stopped reading at “end of”. I imagine he’s just trying to up his book sales by being controversial Katie hopkins style.

AIBU to think some wise intelligent woman over 50 wouldn't give him the time of day, now he is all bitter.

Meh... it's not really that much of a surprise really is it - prize-winning novelist turns out to be a prick? Was he a favourite author OP? Fess I've never heard of him. Always a bit disappointing if someone you like turns out to be a prize arse if so. I used to love Martin Amis and was really disappointed at the misogynistic comments he kept being quoted as making. Eventually felt like it spoiled the books for me.

This guy's an idiot and I'd say wrong place to come out with this gem. France has a great attitude towards older women being considered attractive and desirable (normally - not from this twat, obviously).

Maybe he's just a bit simple - or, as his doppelgaenger meerkat would say, "Simples!"

Anybody can have a romantic 'type' - and stick to it as strictly as ever they choose - but it's very negative to specifically outline what you DON'T like and publicise it extensively. Quite short-sighted too, as the current 'supply' of women under 50 finds out what he's really like and miraculously dries up.

Of course, that will be their fault and their loss too - never, ever his. What was the old saying about using your personality as a failsafe contraceptive?

Sounds like negging to me, in the hopes that all the 50 + women who had previously told him to jog on would try and prove that they were worth a go on after all.

FAIL!

And he said some pretty repulsively racist things as well. I wouldn't touch him with someone else's.

Poor chap. He will soon find out that his 25 year olds wouldn't fancy him much if he was the local bus driver.

Would a 25 year old go out with an old man like him.

He isn’t anything special

What an embarrassingly self-important sexist angry dick.
Well- good he’s gone on the record now so nobody will date him by accident.

Excellent! All these under-25s now know what a dick he is and don’t have to discover it for themselves.

Another meh, he ain't all that himself and guess what you say something ageist, sexist, racist
Homophobic etc and you get reported on, great free publicity.

Well I'm pretty sure he covered all the bases himself when he stated the women he dates may find it all 'sad and reductive'. I'm unsure why the backlash came in the form of a woman getting her arse out to retaliate though 😯 Yes, she's 52 with a great bum but it didn't scream moral high ground really imo. I doubt there's 25yr olds banging down his door in a stampede though.

AIBU to say that this is his business?
I am much younger than him, married, but if I wasn’t I still would not date him EVER.
Like 90 of all men, 90% of all men are invisible to me (for thousands of different reasons... not all of them make sense to anybody but me)... but in all honesty: cannot see why this is anybodies business but mine.

I think he is just speaking a society perspective though. I know FIL is dating a GORGEOUS and highly intellegent and successful 58 year old woman. And when I say gorgeous I mean gorgeous. But because he is a rich and successful man people always seem shocked that he is dating somebody close to his age and some even ask him why he isn't living it up and dating somebody in their 20's. It's an unfortunate attitude and I look at his partner and think if she's getting questioned about finding love as a mature woman then the rest of us are screwed.

Or we don‘t date somebody who is a rich and successful man like your FIL. I think many a man who is poor and works in a dead end job shares the fate of being invisible to many.

He’s no oil painting. I can well see why women over 50 don’t give him a second glance. Misogynist prick.

"Yann Moix, 50, told a glossy magazine: “Come on now, let’s not exaggerate! That’s not possible … too, too old.” "

Hmm. Seems to me he didn't finish the sentence. I think what he meant to say was

'That's not possible... too, too old and experienced to fall for the bullshit of my pathetic chat-up lines. No, 25 tops, they're still young enough to be impressed by my being a published author, but it's depressing when they dump me around 28. By then they're old enough to see through me.'

Who?

You know what, everyone is allowed their opinion on what's attractive to them. Myself, I find pretentious French "authors" unbelievably unattractive and invisible to me.

TiF baby, TiF*.
It doesn’t surprise me at all. I think he’s saying out loud what many rich, older men believe: that their wealth and status continue to give them currency in the sexual market, and older women - compared to pretty young things - do not. It’s sexist and horrible but c’est la vie.

But the French have a very different attitude to all things sexual: remember Catherine Deneuve et al writing that letter at the height of #metoo which defended a woman’s right to be sexually harassed?!

*This is France

Watching GMB and they have been ridiculing this journalist. Piers Morgan has been the most vociferous, calling the journalist sexist. I was pleasantly surprised that he has called him out.

Not sure though why the female journalist had to show off her (nice) 50 plus bottom though. It's just sinking to his level.

The reality is a lot of men think like this. And most women would also bemoan the fact that their middle aged bodies are not as attractive as their younger body was. Male bodies in their 50s are not normally as nice as their younger counterparts. It's called ageing, and life.

But most people grow up and recognise that people are not just bodies, other qualities make them attractive. This guy, who is not attractive himself, has not grown up. Unlike other posts I think quite a few younger women would find him attractive. There are plenty of younger women who seem to think they will never get older or be invisible to men and would quite happily side with men to distance themselves from an older generation of women.

One of the benefits of getting older is not giving a fuck about what some older man says about older women.

How many 25 year olds are going to love his saggy bottom which will get even more saggy day by day?

Samantha from SATC has it nailed.

He dates women younger than him because they are sufficiently blinded by his relative power/capital to not care that he looks like a squeezed ballsack.