I Don’t Care if Men Want to Date Younger Women (and You Shouldn’t Either)

50-year-old French writer Yann Moix says women his age are ‘invisible’ to him, and that’s OK

Yann Moix is a film director, television presenter and an award-winning writer. He’s French. He’s sorta kinda maybe attractive. He’s a 50-year-old single man. But now he may best be known by a comment he made to Maire Claire magazine. Women his age are “invisible” to him.

“Come on now, let’s not exaggerate! That’s not possible … too, too old. I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. Full stop. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all.”

He also prefers relationships with Asian women — Koreans, Chinese, Japanese especially — and, you know, there are all sorts of problems with that, especially when it’s explained as, “I can’t help but like what I like” or, as Moix states, “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.”

This did not go well over social media.

Still, as much as I find his comments naive, ageist and sexist, he’s entitled to have them. “We’re not responsible for our tastes and our inclinations…