The naked truth about sexism is it transcends gender

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'Earlier this week, the National Post's Jen Gerson suggested "setting men up to unrealistic standards of beauty" is "fair play." She called it "turnabout," which sounds harmless, but sexism would have been more accurate.

Gerson used the recent shirtless photographs of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to establish criteria, not unlike a judge in a beauty pageant, placing the PM in that category of men she calls "attractive in a stereotypically placid way. Baby-cheeked and fit without being distractingly muscular."

Maybe Gerson's detached assessment of the PM's physique wasn't as demeaning as measuring the gap between a woman's thighs, but in terms of objectification it was in the same ballpark.

To make matters worse she dragged Stephen Harper into the mix (and he wasn't even a contestant this year!) judging him, not just for a dad bod -- urban dictionary says "more a grazing manatee than a speedy dolphin" -- but a "dowdy dad bod," which is probably a grazing manatee in a frumpy cardigan.
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The naked truth about sexism is it transcends gender. Men and women, by virtue of our humanness, are equally capable of failing to be fair and respecting one another's dignity. And if we can't talk about that openly we will only intensify the gender polarity that, I fear, has begun to define the age in which we live.'