More knee jerk recreational outrage.  It is just so de rigueur as if the author or the paper felt they had publish an article on this.

She even manages to explain or defeat her own complaints in the course of the article as if she didn't really believe them in the first place. Yet she still had to pile on.   The host is a comedian improvising during a live televised performance and he made and ill advised ad-libbed joke considering the event and the audience.  Some of the awards are decided based on sales and judges have no discretion to favour gender parity.  Some other awards just didn't have many female nominees.  In other years women dominated the awards; that's the way things go.  And Melanie Joly is attractive and a public figure.  In political life she bears much harsher slings and arrows than being accused of being 'hot'.  I think she'll be okay.  I don't remember this author penning an article defending Justin Trudeau from the sexist obsession with his looks.