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No one likes overstatement, but when female political leaders can’t go anywhere without having their body parts evaluated to see who, by social consensus, is more shaggable, then we are in a catch 22.

Personally, I benefit from three days per week out of service, to focus on the arduous “painting of the Forth Bridge”-style maintenance that keeps me, in my 40s, on just the right side of shaggable.

I was bemoaning this fact to a gay friend of mine, saying: “It’s dreadful and destructive what modern culture would have us believe. By conflating sex and love, we have young people wanting plastic surgery to change their bodies. They think that by having surgery they’ll become more shaggable, and therefore more lovable. Isn’t that pathetic?”

“The shaggable side of it came up a lot when we were working on it. It was important for us that it should be.”

“Shaggable” was the buzz word used by designer Tom Ford to describe the beauty look at his fall 2015 fashion show in Los Angeles on Friday.