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Gob-smackingly sexist media moment of the day

Look, I hope this won’t be a daily feature. I would like it to be an annual one, really. But I believe that’s unrealistic. Certainly when the Daily Mail is sprinkling such sexist fairy dust across the Interweb.
Check this out:

I really am unsure where to start here…..should it be with the assumption that ‘younger and prettier’ is the sole criteria for a man being with a woman? The assumption that Madonna has nothing to offer Jesus that he couldn’t get from a ‘younger’ and ‘prettier’ girl? The assumption that Madonna should just throw a bag over her head and go sit in a dark room somewhere because she is too old and ugly for anyone to love?

In the story that accompanies the delightful headline and photo treatment above, the paper interviews one of Jesus’s ‘younger’ and ‘prettier’ exes.

Catharina Franca, an
18-year- old actress, has spoken for the first time of her shock at
discovering that Mr Luz was dating the singer.

Miss Franca told the Daily Mail: ‘When I heard about him and Madonna I couldn’t believe it.
‘I
think the age makes a difference and it is ridiculous for her. It’s
like my mum with a boyfriend my age, or even my grandmother. I think
it’s very weird.

‘She is a ridiculous old bag, jumping around on stage at her age.

Nice. Really, really nice.

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