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(I refuse, unfairly, to allow my own generation to take responsibility for it.)

Trudeau himself cannot be blamed for this spectacle — he can’t help it if he’s attractive. Although for the dignity of the country, it may be time for him to embrace the dadbod and grow a beard. Everyone else needs to get a grip.

This is more than merely embarrassing; it’s a rather obvious example of a double standard. How is it OK to salivate over Trudeau’s body, in a world where it has become taboo to make even an innocuous passing remark about a female politician’s looks?

How is it OK to salivate over Trudeau’s body when it is taboo to make even an innocuous passing remark about a female politician’s looks?

Skirting dangerously close to the edges of self-awareness, the Independent’s Victoria Richards seemed to recognize the incongruity. “I scrolled through multiple images of his long, flowing locks, witnessed him marching in a gay pride parade, held my breath through those topless boxing poses and sighed openly after reading about his pro-abortion, feminist, climate change-supporting, liberal credentials. But it was mostly the boxing shots. And that hair,” she wrote before deciding her reaction was all perfectly fine. Offering unsolicited compliments to women is akin to rape, but objectifying men is acceptable because women often fear getting raped. No, seriously,that’s her argument.

This may all seem harmless, except that the people who feel compelled to publicly exclaim their carnal desires for Trudeau tend to hail from the same political class that believes merely electing him will restore Canada to a mythical Liberal Golden Age of global credibility.