When Madonna published
Sex
, her erotic book, she was called a witch, a heretic, a demon, and even a whore.
She was then 33 years old and she banked everything and more.
Everything, except that now they come to call her old
.
At 65, she erupted like a volcano against those who criticize her for her physical appearance: "I'm trapped in age discrimination," she said this week when answering the comments she received after her appearance at the Grammy Awards gala, the most important in music.
And she took it out on the photographer who took her
"a close-up with a long-lens camera that distorts anyone's face!"
Winston Churchill was 15 years older than the Queen of Pop when he also got mad at the messenger.
All for a portrait.
" You are cruel
," he told the artist who painted his entire body.
"Old age is cruel,"
the man defended himself.
As cruel as the messages that Madonna read on her social networks.
"Unrecognizable"
, several of her followers wrote to her who do not forgive her for the change in her face due to Botox or multiple surgeries.
Some even compared it to a satanic statue.
Nothing that Charles Baudelaire did not write 150 years ago in his “Spleen de Paris”.
For this cursed poet, beauty -or youth- was nothing more than
a statue with marble eyes and a raised gaze.
Like Madonna now, when from her Instagram she says with height:
“I am not going to apologize for my appearance.
I never did and I'm not going to start now."
Let the Queen's buffoons take note.
Or that they read Baudelaire, who made his marble Venus a unique and immortal creature.