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#ChallengeAccepted: Female empowerment or celebrity bandwagon? – Hack – triple j – ABC News
A viral social media trend with an uplifting but vague purpose? We’ve been here before.
It’s been promoted as a display of female empowerment and criticised as a hollow exercise that does nothing to support women.
#ChallengeAccepted has seen more than four million women including Khloe Kardashian and Ivanka Trump post black and white glamour shots on social media, ostensibly as a way to show love and support for other women.
Here’s how it works: a woman who’s been nominated posts a black-and-white pic of herself, then nominates women in her life to do the same.
Exactly how this …
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