ICYMI: Over the weekend, the Royal Australian Navy celebrated the launch of a new $2 billion navy ship and enlisted local Woolloomooloo dance troupe, 101 Doll Squadron, to perform at the event.
Whether or not you believe the dance routine to be "appropriate" entertainment for the event, there's no denying that this group of performers were hired to do a job — and they appear to have had a lot of fun doing just that.
But now the Australian media, including the Daily Telegraph, is shaming not the event organisers, but the dancers themselves — labelling them as a "troupe of scantily clad twerkers", complete with all the worst navy-related puns you can imagine.
The Aussie public is firing back, blasting the coverage focusing on the dancers themselves as "sexist" and a form of harassment.
Others commented on the absurdity of Australian Defence Force Chief, General Angus Campbell, being present — who, in March, warned cadets not to make themselves "prey" to sexual predators by being out late at night "alone" and "attractive".