My kingdom for a Wegman’s in Portland.

My friends are largely non-gender conforming, very queer, indie/hippie, hugely anti-TERF feminists from alternative career paths - I’m usually the ‘odd one out’ because I had naturally coloured hair (until JUST LAST WEEK) and wear mostly natural make up. Everyone else is a wash of colour, sparkle and glitter, with…

A good eyebrow is the fastest, most inexpensive, most efficient way to freshen and pull together your whole look.

He says 25, but I’m reading this as that’s his upper limit.

Amen.

“The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all.”

Oh, no one ever asks. You’ll hear about it whether you want to or not.

This guy is so not gonna handle death well. I guess I’m in the minority although maybe not entirely from talking to fellow males 40-55 who I know but I prefer a women with some experience and mileage. I still think I’m kinda superficial but the idea of dating any women under 30 seems pretty foreign at this point. I…

Yup. This. To everyone within earshot, especially when there’s alcohol involved. And the granularity with which we detail our preferences? Loudly? To EVERYONE? Jeezuz...

Not gonna lie, I’m still getting over the fact that men in my demographic are now old enough to have hair in their ears.

I’ve also found that men who say “I don’t like women who wear a lot of makeup” are really talking about heavy eyeliner and false lashes. Most of them are too stupid to realize that that “natural, low-maintenance” look they covet is actually pretty heavily made up as well.

I’ve always been attracted to men of a variety of ages, but though there were 50-something men I found attractive when I was 25, I definitely found men who only liked much younger women creepy as hell. It’s such obviously pathetic insecurity, and it was obvious to 16 year old me, 25 year old me, and 35 year old me.…

Yeah - your daughter and I have that in common. And I have been raged at by both men and women for thinking men over 30 are “creepy” for hitting on me. I’m not necessarily calling them “old” either. They just always act so fucking condescending. And while they’re hitting on me! Like it’s very clear they want someone…

Yup. In my youth I got a lot of I don’t like women who wear a lot of make up, I like a natural look, like yours. FYI, I’m just too lazy to wear make up, I’d rather sleep for that ten minutes or whatever. I did have to laugh in the face of one guy who said he liked women that didn’t dye their hair like me, because back…

A white guy with a fetish for young asian women.

I’ve known guys like him, he probably does think his opinions on women’s bodies, and what constitutes the right kind of body, are extremely fascinating to everyone he meets. 

I’m a woman in my 20s. I wish old shitgibbons like Moix would leave me alone.

There’s plenty of these elderly edgelords on the literary scene in europe. Like it is some kind of radical statement to say they find young womens bodies attractive. They often refract their existential angst and naval gazary through a sex/death/girls narrative that is well flogged at this stage. It’s a shortcut to…

Or just fit (or genetically/metabolically-blessed) people he assumes are 25.

OK, but why, in any interview with this man, did his feelings on womens’ bodies come up? Does he just run around talking about how he prefers young women? I don’t get it.