> "This was not limited to one childhood, or one decade. A male politician can change his tie and he is ready for the cameras."

If the politician is too old to capitalize on their sex appeal, or has none to begin with then sure. The same is true of women in that category though.

Otherwise? Come on. You think Zohran Mamdani just rolls out of bed looking like that? Sure the "ideal" presented to men is different than the one to women, but both are incredibly unhealthy in different ways. Instead of constantly making this about some kind of asymmetry between the genders why not recognize that this is a commonality being inflicted on us by ignorant people, tradition, media, social media, but most of all ADVERTISING.