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Thorns among the roses: Dave Sharma’s International Women’s Day debacle

8 March 2021

8:34 PM

8 March 2021

8:34 PM

Liberal politician Dave Sharma handed out pink flowers on International Women’s Day, sending all the petals on Twitter into a meltdown.

If you believe the Twitterati, handing a flower to a woman today — of all days — was “performative virtue”, “deeply sexist”, “creepy” and “patronising”.

A smarter man would have forgotten the anniversary and given flowers a week from now as an apology.

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