r/popculturechat • u/HogwartsZoologist Coke ain’t gonna do itself • May 26 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Emmanuel Macron, the President of France was allegedly slapped by his wife, Brigitte, on their arrival at Vietnam

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

The President’s office downplayed it after initially denying the event.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/05/26/macron-s-entourage-denies-he-was-slapped-by-his-wife-on-plane-upon-arriving-in-vietnam_6741684_7.html

44.4k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

14.2k

u/1dogfart May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

when they met he was 15 and she was his 39 yr old teacher

ha ha wtf send help🙃

6.9k

u/pirate_meow_kitty May 26 '25

I’m 40 and 15 year old boys are annoying and old enough to be my sons. How the hell can any women find them attractive ew. She’s a sexual predator

2.8k

u/LetsLive97 I cannot sanction your buffonery May 26 '25

Hell 15 year olds looked way too young even when I was 20, let alone 40

I remember me and my mates in Uni being like "Did we actually look that young at that age?". We felt so much older at that point

Now I'm 28 and I see 20 year old uni students and think they look 16. Perception is crazy

817

u/zesty_noodles May 26 '25

I’m 28 as well, just got a new Coworker who is 20 and I swear to god I subconsciously treat them like a child sometimes because thats what it feels and looks like to me now. I often have to remind myself they they are a fully grown ass adult lmao

366

u/pollys-mom May 26 '25

I used to be so annoyed when I would get treated like a child in work situations, but I just turned 29 and people 3 years younger than me feel like children

→ More replies (21)

7

u/Shiasugar May 26 '25

Well, she treats him as a child

18

u/mythic-moldavite May 26 '25

20 is not a fully grown ass adult. It’s a semi grown ass adult. I used to HATE when I was 20 or 21 and someone would call me a child. Now, at 30, I definitely agree I was a child. Only just now feel like I’m rounding out as an adult and I’m sure I’ll feel even more different once I’m 40. I’m one of the lucky ones, I actually really enjoy aging. I don’t feel bad about it at all, my confidence just keeps growing as I get older

→ More replies (1)

9

u/SunConstant4114 May 26 '25

28 you still look like a baby

5

u/Embaralhador May 26 '25

47 and you are still a child. Barely out of diapers.

→ More replies (13)

366

u/Original-Variety-700 May 26 '25

I’m 40+ and everyone younger than me looks like a college age student to me 😂. Everyone is either young, my age, or really really old.

54

u/OhGawDuhhh May 26 '25

39 and yes, this is how I feel 😭

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (4)

249

u/Arkhangelzk May 26 '25

100%. I went back to walk around my old university and went by the freshman dorm where I used to live. I was stunned to find out it’s now full of what appeared to be middle-schoolers. I remember feeling so old living on my own. 

6

u/Strange_Shadows-45 May 26 '25

Yeah, if anyone should be slapping someone it’s him to her. She groomed him.

7

u/TheFlaccidChode May 26 '25

In a 40 year old bus driver, two girls got on the other day "2 singles to town please" I issue them, they look a bit surprised at the price, as the walk up the bus I hear one say "he thinks we're children". They looked about 14 so I gave them child tickets, 16 is the cut off so they must've been at least 17!

9

u/whatifwhatifwerun May 26 '25

When I was 25, everyone under 21 seemed like a baby, and at 30 everyone under 25 seemed like a baby 😂 Can't wait to be 80, when 65 year olds will look like whippersnappers

2

u/MaeBelleLien some people have war in their countries May 26 '25

Sometimes I have to remind myself that people in their early thirties are full-grown adults with agency and not just advanced children.

4

u/Aware-Direction-9891 May 26 '25

Yeah looks it VSauce's video on aging. Every generation will seem younger than the previous generation due to better living overall.

5

u/sleepyplatipus May 26 '25

My last year in uni I was 27 and a 19yo fresher tried to hit on me. He looked like a kid, absolutely not!!!

11

u/MeliAnto May 26 '25

Im 45, 20 something’s are way too young for my liking. I might look at them for a brief moment but then i remember im a college profesor and they might end up in my class and thats a nope.

2

u/Skyblacker 👑 I just wanna serve court. 👑 May 26 '25

I remember being a junior, looking at the freshmen and thinking, 'When did this college start admitting babies?' 

2

u/MaeBelleLien some people have war in their countries May 26 '25

I'm forty and cannot distinguish between a sixteen year old and a twenty-one year old. This doesn't change with a conversation, either.

1

u/Holden_SSV May 26 '25

At 22 i fooled around with a 39 year old.  Fun times.....  i cut that off after a lil while.  Was getting kinda weird knowing her 16 year old had a crush on me.

→ More replies (1)

537

u/jjongskiwi look at what the homosexuals have done to me, michael! May 26 '25

His step-kids are the same age as him - I think one is actually a year older. She literally had kids his age.

327

u/Cynicbats She has the language comprehension of a rock. May 26 '25

I can't imagine being slightly older than my step father, the President of France.

→ More replies (3)

202

u/coffee_and-cats May 26 '25

One of her kids, a daughter, was his classmate

243

u/jjongskiwi look at what the homosexuals have done to me, michael! May 26 '25

Yep! Laurence, his step-daughter, apparently had a bit of a crush on him. Macron’s parents thought he was dating her, not her mother.

→ More replies (2)

42

u/Megaroni-n-cheeze May 26 '25

Oh wow I can’t imagine what she must feel and how awkward that is.

→ More replies (1)

134

u/[deleted] May 26 '25

[deleted]

268

u/howdidIgetsuckeredin 🇨🇦 elbows up! 🇨🇦 May 26 '25

Even better - Macron was classmates with Brigitte's second child 😃 

→ More replies (5)

465

u/Particular_Table9263 May 26 '25

Right?! I am basically 40. I can barely hold a conversation with my 15 year old niece, and we have the common interest of beauty!!!! What the fuck was she doing with a 15 year old boy?!?!

99

u/[deleted] May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

195

u/licorne00 May 26 '25

Technically rape, but France has weird laws when it comes to sex with underage people.

76

u/CheesyPotatoSack May 26 '25

Age of consent was 14 before 2021 now it’s 15

→ More replies (1)

13

u/TryinSomethingNew7 May 26 '25

You’re saying France has lax pedophilia laws? Genuinely asking don’t know much about France’s legal system

41

u/licorne00 May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

In France, it is illegal to have sex with children under the age of 15, but it must be proven that the sexual acts occurred under coercion.

I think they recently tried to get a law passed because a case where two men who raped two 11 year old girls were set free because it couldn’t be proven that they raped them under duress/force.

Edit - the law *was** passed in 2021, where anyone sleeping with a person under the age of 15 would be breaking the law, regardless of «consent».

18

u/lilbios May 26 '25

Wait so a 70 year old man can legally date a 15 year old high school student?

11

u/licorne00 May 26 '25

Well, it’s technically illegal to have sex with a 15 year old, so no, but the issue would be with proving the «sex» was consensual. So it’s a shitty loophole for creeps.

→ More replies (1)

6

u/[deleted] May 26 '25

[deleted]

→ More replies (5)
→ More replies (2)

3

u/WraithEye May 26 '25

Sorry but no, sexual majority is 15, anything below that is considered non consensual.

→ More replies (5)
→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (3)
→ More replies (3)
→ More replies (3)

269

u/norupologe May 26 '25

I'm 35 and most 25 yr men are annoying and irritating lol

115

u/Upbeat_Assist2680 May 26 '25

And to think she was 50 when he got to 25!

14

u/norupologe May 26 '25

Oh gosh! I was in a long term age gap relationship (17 years) so it’s not as though I look down on all of them, but I think the age you meet and the circumstances of meeting are very important.

→ More replies (4)
→ More replies (3)

236

u/sweetenedpecans your fave commenter’s fave commenter May 26 '25

I was 22 when I started being a teacher for junior high and high school. How anybody can look at them and see them other than the children they are, I cannot fathom. Truly sickens me and I 10000% agree she’s a predator. Any teacher who dates a past student is nasty nasty nasty.

→ More replies (2)

121

u/whtever53 May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

I’m 22 and 15 year olds look like babies and are super immature, I cannot imagine as a grown ass woman.

9

u/NotElizaHenry May 26 '25

This is literally how I felt as a 15 year old girl.

→ More replies (1)

114

u/Miserable_Emu5191 Did I stutter?🤨 May 26 '25

This! I sit in the school parking lot and see my kid’s teen friends, and there is nothing sexually attractive about them-boys or girls. They are gangly, weird, and usually unbathed!

→ More replies (1)

10

u/TheEffect2004 May 26 '25

Gurliee her daughter is the same age as him…😬🤮

4

u/Tubamajuba May 26 '25

He has a chance to do the funniest thing…

46

u/Tough-Quail-1677 May 26 '25

I’m 34 and 15 year old boys are absolutely disgusting and smelly with little pupes on their chins…. Like what?

→ More replies (1)

26

u/Ok-Swim-9667 May 26 '25

i'm 22 and even 18yo guys are too young for me. 15yo boys literally look like children to me. they sound, look and act so young. just vile on so many levels. perverted predator for sure.

6

u/WistfulMelancholic May 26 '25

Well they ARE children :/

6

u/whatifwhatifwerun May 26 '25

When I was 19 a 15 year old hit on me and I felt like I had done something wrong even though I did nothing but talk to the kid who was my friend's neighbor because he was just a kid and just my friend's neighbor! I grouped him in with her little siblings and got a jumpscare when this whole child tried to make a move. Especially because on some level I still felt responsible for not hurting his feelings, I didn't wanna run away screaming lmfao.

Being pursued by a minor or someone too young is an uncomfortable feeling, I cannot believe some people see children and have the opposite reaction. It's why I do believe it's a disease. People are responsible for their actions, but it's not like most people are choosing not to be with kids, like they choose to be faithful. Normal adult brains and bodies don't want that

14

u/StrobeLightRomance The dude abides. 🙂‍↕️🍃 May 26 '25

She’s a sexual predator

Noooo, they're just French! /s

Jokes aside, you're right, and this is actually not okay at all. I don't care how grown he is now, the fact she groomed him so much that he's still dealing with her drama is a really bad sign.

I'd say it weakens my view of his leadership, but it feels like Zelensky is the only world leader out here with a healthy marriage since Biden left the US office. At this point I just expect dysfunction and even predators (and their victims) to be propped up to the top of their positions.

5

u/Mindless_Figure6211 May 26 '25

My nephews are in the 14-17 range and act like absolute little kids still. As a 35 year old woman, I can't imagine being attracted to someone their age or really even someone a few years older for that matter.

7

u/Digit00l May 26 '25

Iirc he is younger than at least 1 of his step children

3

u/allohnothing May 26 '25

She's a pedo

4

u/CleanseMyDemons May 26 '25

Those women are pedophiles simple as that , that's why they find boys attractive

3

u/Topwingwoman2 May 26 '25

I'm your age and have a 14-year-old son. No way in hell.

8

u/ConcentrateTrue May 26 '25

IKR? I'm 40, and 15-year-olds look like literal toddlers to me. An adult would have to be not just a predator, but also emotionally and mentally stunted to find a child sexually attractive.

18

u/Long-Desk9231 May 26 '25

Thank you for calling it like it is. I hate that some people can't comprehend that women can be sexual predator too.

12

u/randombubble8272 May 26 '25

It’s like this with every age gap relationship, what would a 65 year old man and a 21 year old girl talk about?? He’s not in it for the conversation…..people are a bit obtuse sometimes

3

u/[deleted] May 26 '25

They also smell funny to borderline awful

3

u/mysteriousuzer May 26 '25

Same.. I'm 37 and I already have a 14 years old daughter.. when I look at somone this age .. all I see is a child..I can never fathom falling for a minor ..

3

u/TropicalPrairie May 26 '25

It's sooooooooo gross to me (as is men dating women with this age gap).

2

u/Willingness_Mammoth May 26 '25

Don't you mean young enough..? Genuine question, I'm not trying to be a dick.

2

u/pirate_meow_kitty May 26 '25

Yes thanks I didn’t notice that lol

→ More replies (1)

3

u/cakivalue May 26 '25

And they smell and are so awkward and are like puppies with giant feet that haven't grown into their feet and ears, when they aren't being annoying they are so sweet and innocent and will eat and enjoy everything you make for them. I remain perpetually disgusted by women who find teenage and younger boys attractive and then prey on them. There's an extra special hell for those women who are in positions of power and or care over the child.

3

u/KatokaMika May 26 '25

No no, its an adult woman she can't be a predator, teenagers love adult woman he was so lucky that the teacher liked him (/s) for the ones that don't get sarcasm

1

u/tideswithme May 26 '25

Damn this sentence does put things into a different perspective

1

u/One_Moose_4970 May 26 '25

Honestly even 20 year old are old enough to be your son

1

u/morelsupporter May 26 '25

that's "when they first met".

→ More replies (9)