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'Dil Bechara' fame actress Sanjana Sanghi has stoked a controversy after an advertisement featuring her has irked social media users.

The actress, who became a national crush overnight after the release of her debut film, recently appeared in an advertisement to promote an OTT platform. However, the concept of the advertisement did not go down well with netizens who slammed it for promoting violence among men and termed it as 'sexist'.

Some social media users even went to the extent of stating that the concept and 'misandry' in the ad were 'reprehensible'.

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'Journalist and debut author Chelsea G Summers once wrote that “2014 was the year that misandry got chic”, charting a course from Gone Girl’s criminal mastermind Amy to Taylor Swift’s knife-wielding persona in Blank Space.

I was anticipating this zeitgeisty, nail-polish-emoji brand of feminist vengeance when I heard about Summers’ first novel, billed as “Eat, Pray, Love meets American Psycho“. While duly ­sating that desire, the novel also gives voice to a certain form of misandry that cannot be dismissed as merely fashionable.
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If “misandry” is defined not as the hatred of men, but as rage against the patriarchal order, might anger be a critically useful emotion, in that it warns us that something is wrong? Misandry like this could catalyse positive social action, as well as more great novels.'

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'Given the likelihood that it’ll be difficult for the Biden administration to move big-ticket items on Capitol Hill, progressives are eagerly searching for ways that the president-elect can unilaterally change policy. Vox, for example, has sketched “10 Enormously Consequential Things Biden Can Do Without the Senate.” One Guardian op-ed offered the fetching headline, “Here Are 277 Policies That Biden Can Enact on Day One — Without Congress.”

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'Brazilian-born boxer Viviane Obenauf has been arrested in Switzerland in connection with the death of her husband, who she married earlier this year, multiple reports say.

Obenauf, 34, was arrested by Swiss police last week after being named the prime suspect in the brutal death of her 61-year-old husband, who was found beaten to death in their apartment in October, the New York Daily News reported.

The victim, only identified as Thomas, was found with “massive injuries due to [a] blunt instrument,” BoxingScene.com reported, citing a police report. He died after a “sustained violent assault.”'

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'A Chicago-based singer has been arrested in Atlanta after allegedly shooting a man in the head.

Ann Marie (née Joann Marie Slater), 25, was booked into jail on December 2, Fulton County records show, and charged with possession of a firearm during commission of a felony and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Responding officers found a 24-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head, according to a police report obtained by the outlet, and he was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. CBS 46 reported that the man was somewhat responsive when officers arrived, but was later declared to be in critical condition.

Ann Marie claimed that a gun had fallen off a table in the room, going off and hitting the man, police said, according to CBS 46. She was reportedly very distraught and kept asking officers if the victim was going to be okay.'

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'A federal court judge has rejected a request from six female student athletes seeking an immediate restraining order that would halt the University of Iowa’s efforts to dismantle its women’s swimming and diving program.

“Because plaintiffs have not established the threat of irreparable injury ‘of such imminence that there is a clear and present need for equitable relief to prevent irreparable harm,’ … they have not established a need for such immediate emergency relief,” U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Rose wrote in an order Dec. 4 — one day after the students, through their attorney, formally made the request.

“However, the court appreciates the time-sensitive nature of plaintiffs’ dilemma as a general matter, and finds expedited briefing to be appropriate,” Rose added, setting a hearing for Dec. 18.

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'An attorney representing members of the Fresno State women’s lacrosse team has sent a letter to university president Joseph Castro claiming that the elimination of the program is a “blatant violation of Title IX” and threatening legal action if it is not reinstated.

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'With men making up the majority of the military, women sometimes feel the burden of being less supported. They feel the need to work harder to be accepted. Their feelings and emotions may not be fully understood when going through difficult situations. This makes their career in service more challenging to navigate.

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'An advocacy group for women veterans sent a letter to Congress this week, urging lawmakers to stop implementation of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) until the service completes an independent study of the new assessment's potential impacts on female soldiers.

The Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) issued a letter to the leaders of both the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, requesting that they retain a provision in the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that would halt the ACFT until an independent study is conducted, according to a news release from SWAN, a national nonprofit group that advocates for the needs of servicewomen and female veterans.

The Army unveiled its plan to replace the current three-event Army Physical Fitness Test with the more challenging, six-event ACFT in July 2018. It authorized all soldiers in the active, National Guard and Reserve force to begin taking the ACFT as of Oct. 1.'

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'A mom-of-three who was cleared of knowingly having sex with a boy who was only 14 now plans to capitalize on her notoriety by peddling images and videos on a raunchy website, according to a report.

“I’m thinking about doing an OnlyFans account. People already hate me, so not much to lose,” Teah Vincent announced in an Instagram video, The Sun reported.

OnlyFans is a subscription site where subscribers pay to view content deemed too x-rated for social media.

Vincent, 32, admitted to initiating sex with the teen after inviting him and a pal into her Glousterceshire home.'

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'Many members of the Clemson University Track and Field and Cross Country teams are disappointed and heartbroken following a decision made by Clemson University to discontinue the Men's departments in each respective program.

"It was just like the floor had just dropped out beneath us, just absolutely gutted," said Clemson Cross Country Runner Jackson Leech as he described the moment late last week he and his teammates were told the news. "One of the most sad moments i've ever experienced."

Clemson University says the decision to cut the Men's Track and Field and Cross Country programs comes as a result of numerous factors, with the main two aspects being the financial future of the sports department and the future of Title IX compliance for the university.

The Clemson Athletics Department says that discontinuing the two men's programs, while unfortunate, was the best path forward.

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'Men’s Day Out makes it to a recent report published by the United Nations (UN Women), where a study which looked at data from South and South East Asia, found that between March and June 2020 – when most of these regions were under COVID-19 lockdowns – the volume and interest in misogynistic online content increased manifold, by as much as 168%.
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The report pointed out that a majority of the tweets propagating misogynistic narratives came from India, which attempted to discredit the rampant violence, repression and discrimination against women. The volume of searches for misogynistic profanity and narratives increased, along with searches for terms like “incel”, “men going their own way” and “men’s rights”, it said.
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'Tanden, according to the Times, accompanied Clinton for what was supposed to be an "easy interview" with ThinkProgress, the liberal website ran by the Center for American Progress.

Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress's chief editor who most recently was the campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential bid, questioned the senator for voting in favor of the Iraq War.

"Ms. Tanden responded by circling back to Mr. Shakir after the interview and, according to a person in the room, punching him in the chest," the Times reported.

According to a recent interview a "still angry" Tanden gave at the time, she recalled, "I didn’t slug him, I pushed him.”'

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'This summer, we witnessed a new wave of #MeToo sexual misconduct accusations on social media targeting powerful men in various industries in the province of Quebec. Like the previous instance of online indictments of sexual harassment, few professed victims could present proof supporting their allegations' validity. And so, we were told to "believe all victims," even when evidence was absent.

Not satisfied with the current Quebec's legal process, Delphine Bergeron and an unnamed collaborator decided to curate a public list of potential sexual harassers' names. The administrators share the list in question on a Facebook page named "Dis son Nom," roughly translated into English as "Say his name."

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'Sexism exists in Westminster, and it turns me puce with irritation. Yet so, too, does the Prime Minister’s call for women to make up 50 per cent of MPs in Parliament. For here — disguised as a feminist masterstroke — is a woefully backward step.

In pushing for this target, the campaigners are not tackling sexism but aiding and abetting it. Why? Because when women are appointed to tick a box rather than purely on merit, people will suspect the female MPs are sitting on those green benches on account of their ovaries rather than their talents.

Veteran politicians will wonder if the thirty-something filly is there just to take the quota nearer to that magical 50 per cent.

This is maddening for all the capable women who have worked for years to make it into Parliament: sitting on their local council, volunteering, attending endless drinks parties, jumping through hoops to be selected as a candidate.