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#ChallengeNotAccepted By Ananya Gulati Recently a challenge started circulating worldwide where women share their photographs in black and white colour on their social media accounts, many women including celebrities quickly jumped on this bandwagon of showing solidarity, but is it effective or inclusive? The answer is a loud and clear ‘NO’, some people will be enraged when they read what I have written, as they should be. But this recent trend is at best pseudo-feminist, by sharing your own photographs are you really standing up for your gender, or feeding your own vanity. I have personally witnessed nearly all females I know participate in this challenge, linking it to a murder of Turkish women, but ask yourself- how are you helping those murdered women, will posting our photos end sexual assault, rapes, harassment at work places, gender pay inequality or any such issue? Yes, I may come across as harsh but I am entitled to my own views, my own opinions. One of the reason