In case the entire fucking Duncan Storrar saga hadn’t convinced you that this country and its media is deeply, deeply feral, the News Corp mastheads have a hot slice of relevant content for you this morning: apparently Bill Shorten has ‘man boobs’ and therefore must not be allowed near the levers of power.
Commentators have labelled this problem “man boobs”, or “moobs”.Image consultant Imogen Lamport said the images of Mr Shorten running could undermine his recent makeover.“It doesn’t make him more attractive and that’s the problem. He’s still got an achilles heel because he’s got man boobs.’’
There ya go. Some very serious chinstroking going on as to whether a party leader’s physical characteristics disqualify him from public support. To add insult to injury, serial column pest Mark Latham has also written an article for the Daily Telegraph about Shorten’s chest, featuring this wonderful excerpt:
In my campaign against John Howard I spent weeks trying to figure out how I could turn my decaying pecs into an electoral asset.But politics back then was so sexually restrictive. We hadn’t heard about the wonders of the Safe Schools program and gender fluidity. The only cross-dressing was on the Footy Show.
That’s quite a one-two punch there. “I was bullied in the news, which really reminds me of why Safe Schools is scourge and must immediately be banned.”
