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Throughout the poem Catullus just bad mouths this girl who is the mistress of another guy he clearly doesn't like that much as well.
I can tell he must have gotten pretty mad when he heard that the girl previously mentioned was being compared to Lesbia. Because of hearing that he calls the age he was living in 'tasteless and coarse'.
This poem further validates my earlier thinking that Catullus' passion and love for Lesbia is immense and also that those two very deep emotions are things of vitality to him. Every poem, in some way/shape/form, has been about his undying and evidently intense love for Lesbia. He calls her his 'shining lady', when she's with another man 'a thin flame' runs through his body, and the final and most establishing piece of evidence that love is ever important to him, when he hears some ugly girl with an unsophisticated walk and a slobbery mouth is being compared to his astoundinly beautiful love, he goes out of his way to illustrate just how much she is not in comparison with Lesbia.