"What a lot of people think" : Zahia Dehar responds to Yann Moix’s controversial remarks about women over 50

His comments about women in 2019 caused controversy. Four years later, the Yann Moix controversy surrounding 50-year-old women is still as lively as ever. This September 30, it was the young Zahia Dehar who gave her opinion on this subject.

Yann Moix was already accustomed to controversies when he formed a duo with Léa Salamé in We’re not in bed. Today, the host invites her on her own show and can see that things have changed very little. It was early 2019. Editorialist Yann Moix made statements that would attract the wrath of many people, all categories combined. His words, spoken in an interview with Marie Claire on the occasion of the release of his novel To break up, concerned his tastes in women. And the least we can say is that the man admitted to having very specific tastes, starting by explaining that he didn’t like going out only with Asian women… but also that he did not wish don’t date women over 50. It is above all these remarks which provoked the ire of all those, or almost all, who had the leisure to discover the editorialist’s assertions.

Yann Moix, ridiculed… or defended

He had in fact declared in particular that “The body of a 50-year-old woman is not extraordinary at all.” When these words appeared, many personalities stood up against the editorialist, such as Valérie Damidot, Valérie Trierweiler and Anne Roumanoff. Some women even decided to show their bodies in photos to protest. Conversely, others had justified or downplayed his comments such as Michelle Bernier who had estimated in C to you : “At least he says it! Because there are plenty of people who cry ‘wolf!’ but who, in fact, think no less…” or even Minister Marlène Schiappa. Yann Moix had in any case never publicly regretted these comments and had never returned to them. And more than four years later, we can say that the controversy is still as lively as we continue to talk about it. It is on the occasion of an invitation in What eraLéa Salamé’s show where he has already been invited on several occasions, that Yann Moix was once again questioned about these famous tastes.

Zahia’s cash opinion on men’s tastes in women

While the editorialist made a joke of trying to understand why he had so annoyed with his words, declaring: “What disturbed me was that I’m not Mick Jagger and all these women said ‘oh damn he doesn’t like women over 50 but what are we going to do? What can it do to them?”it was another guest from the set who spoke, namely Zahia Dehar: “At the same time what you said was very interesting. You said out loud what many men think very low. Because men, for them, we have an expiration date. We must not forget that, it is quite present in the idea of ​​the group.” “Not all Zahia”journalist Léa Salamé then repeated it. “Mostly anyway”retorted the guest. “Mostly among idiots”estimated columnist Christophe Dechavanne.” “Well there’s a lot of c**s”declared Zahia in conclusion.