Madonna: 'I feel raped' by New York Times Magazine article focusing on her age

Madonna has accused the New York Times Magazine leaving her feeling “raped” after it focused on “trivial matters” including her age.

The Madame X singer launched a furious rant at the publication for its feature ‘Madonna at Sixty’, claiming her age would never have been mentioned if she had not been a woman.

Madonna wrote on Instagram: “It makes me feel raped. And yes I’m allowed to use that analogy having been raped at the age of 19.”

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The star explained: “To say that I was disappointed in the article would be an understatement. It seems you can’t fix society and its endless need to diminish, disparage or degrade that which they know is good. Especially strong independent women.”

The Like A Virgin singer went on to accuse the publication of being patriarchal and the journalist who interviewed her, Vanessa Grigoriadis, of focusing on “trivial and superficial matters”.

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Madonna continued: “The journalist who wrote this article spent days and hours and months with me and was invited into a world which many people don’t get to see, but chose to focus on trivial and superficial matters such as the ethnicity of my stand in or the fabric of my curtains and never ending comments on my age which would never have been mentioned had I been a MAN!

“Women have a really hard time being the champions of other women even if. they are posing as intellectual feminists.”

She went on: “Further proof that the N.Y.T. Is one of the founding fathers of the Patriarchy. And I say - DEATH TO THE PATRIARCHY woven deep into the fabric of Society. I will never stop fighting to eradicate it.”

In the in-depth profile piece Grigoraidis quotes Madonna as telling her: “I think you think about growing old too much... I think you think about age too much. I think you should just stop thinking about it.”