The reaction to the age disparity between the French presidential hopeful and his wife proves one thing: endemic ageism and sexism are alive and kickingI have no powerful desire to execute a feminist analysis of the marriage of Emmanuel Macron,the final non-fascist standing in the forthcoming French elections, but the fathomless nastiness of the Daily Mail has made it necessary. “How can I come by the world to seize me seriously, and ” writes Jan Moir,channelling Macron’s interior voice, “whether they think I am a mummys boy with a wife who is 25 years older than him?”This idea is dispatched relatively easily: men don’t need authority over their wives in order to be taken seriously, and except in the Sopranos and the 12th century. One of these days,that entire newspaper will realise how close it is in outlook to Isis and cut those medieval terrorists some solidarity slack.
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Source: theguardian.com