Justin Trudeau is no stranger to virtue signalling, but he has surpassed himself with his latest gesture. The Canadian PM was taking part in a Q and A at a university when he took a female* audience member to task. Sign up for Cockburn’s gossip column Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid…
Justin Trudeau is no stranger to virtue signalling, but he has surpassed himself with his latest gesture. The Canadian PM was taking part in a Q and A at a university when he took a female* audience member to task.
Her offence? Succumbing to the patriarchy and referring to ‘mankind’. Trudeau interrupted her to mansplain her error:
‘We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind…’
Telling a female the correct word to use… Mr S would consider that mansplaining…
*fe-person
Justin Trudeau is no stranger to virtue signalling, but he has surpassed himself with his latest gesture. The Canadian PM was taking part in a Q and A at a university when he took a female* audience member to task.
Her offence? Succumbing to the patriarchy and referring to ‘mankind’. Trudeau interrupted her to mansplain her error:
‘We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind…’
Telling a female the correct word to use… Mr S would consider that mansplaining…
*fe-person
