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I just want to say that, while I get where it comes from, responding to the MCU mocking Steve's virginity post-serum and pre-ice with "Well, he and Bucky have been banging since the '30s," unintentionally plays into the wider social issue that drives their ridicule:

The notion that a, now "suddenly" (as said in this post, prior to the serum, Steve's virginity is irrelevant to them because of an ableist desexualisation of disabled people and our bodies), physically desirable and masculine man like Steve Rogers isn't sleeping with every woman he encounters is seen as inherently deficient and less of a man for it, that there is something fundamentally wrong with him.

It's and issue with how virginity in men is viewed by society at large.

While most articles I've found talk about this harm in relation to cisgender, heterosexual manhood (along with the double standards women often face) this is an issue that harms all genders and orientations.

Virgin-Shaming (TV Tropes):

Due to a Double Standard that emphasizes male promiscuity and female chastity, this trope more commonly applies to males than females. Virginity is seen as something silly that men need to get past as soon as possible...

Nature Abhors a Virgin (TV Tropes):

The negative attribute in question is defined very broadly. It can simply mean that they lack self-confidence, experience with women, or that they just aren't real men.

Unexpected Virgin (TV Tropes):

Due to a long-standing Double Standard, men are the most common examples of this trope. In fiction, men past puberty are often expected to have had sex.

Of Course I'm Not a Virgin (TV Tropes):

Everybody Has Lots of Sex is a concept so ubiquitous in modern western media, that the very idea that any character, for any reason, is a virgin is something that comes off as alien and bizarre. ...This trope is most common with characters who, given what other information we know about them, would have logical reasons to be a virgin.

Sex Is Cool (TV Tropes):

In the media, sex is often portrayed as "cool". If you're not having sex, then you're a snivelling misfit and a loser.

Virgin-Shaming: Having Sex Out Of Peer Pressure Robs Us Of Our Right To Choose (shethepeople):

Generally, if a person has not had their first time, they are subjected to offensive jokes about virginity. It is assumed that a person becomes ‘mature’ only when they have had sex. Otherwise, they are seen as the innocent kid of the group... Virgin-shaming is more common among men. This is because our society defines the masculinity of a man with his sexual prowess. The more sexually experienced a man is, the more masculine he is. Since men do not ‘lose’ anything if they are not a virgin, it is assumed that no rational man would say no to sex. When patriarchy has invested freedom, power and the right to complete pleasure in the hands of men, there is no reason considered valid enough for a man to deny sex, apart from some fault in him.

Sexually active women? Sluts. Virgin men? Losers. (The Strand):

Men, however, are generally far less encouraged to think out their decisions when it comes to when they’ll lose their virginity and to whom. In fact, rarely will you hear anyone refer to having “taken the virginity” of a man. Instead, men are more pressured from their compatriots to find a conquest as soon as possible to shed their virginity in order to seem more manly. For men, the pressure is quite the opposite. Once puberty hits, men are expected to become machines of sexual activity and to seek out conquests almost immediately... Why do men see the choice to abstain as so unnatural? Why do they feel the need to compare their “body counts,” as if it’s a measure of their manhood? Possibly, because men are taught that they are responsible for convincing women to sleep with them; that they’re the hunters and women are their prey. This message is hammered in by other males, as well as by pop culture.  ...The reflex to judge others for not acting as society dictates is ingrained in us from childhood, but when you question those norms, you begin to see how utterly ridiculous it is to force those views on individuals.

Stigmatized Virginity and Masculinity (DigitalCommons at The University of Nebraska - Lincoln):

Virginity status is one way to make meaning of one’s sexual identity, with individuals often viewing virginity as a gift, a stigma, or a stage in the process of growing up (Carpenter, 2001). Viewing virginity as a stigma is congruent with hegemonic masculinity and cultural-level masculine sexual scripts of using heterosexual sex to define manhood (e.g., Humphreys, 2013). 

When Having Sex Is A Requirement For Being Considered ‘A Real Man’ (Mel Magazine):

As Fleming explains, virgin-shaming is present in any social space where having sex is an implicit requirement for being considered “a real man.” ...Fleming says the virgin status is ascribed to someone and, when used as an insult, implies a failure of masculinity. Fleming’s paper tries to illuminate how certain groups subscribe to a dominant form of masculinity requiring men to objectify women and explains that being a virgin in this context means disobeying the rules of masculinity. (After all, you can’t really claim to be objectifying women if they’re not even letting you have sex with them.) In the recently published study, Fleming and Davis frame virgin shaming as a “manhood act,” one which allows men to be seen as belonging to the more privileged gender. One of the primary manhood acts, he says, is having heterosexual sex — and bragging about it. More broadly, virgin-shaming has the effect of suppressing alternative forms of masculinity that don’t necessarily place a high value on scoring with chicks; Men who act differently or hold a different kind of masculinity don’t get the opportunity to express that masculinity as much, while the dominant “hegemonic” kind endlessly gets repeated, putting down those competing masculinities. That repeats the cycle of men experiencing stigma for being virgins. The images we see in the media set the bar for what is normal and desirable. A large part of masculine protagonists in films, for example, portray an almost effortless ability in courting women. These sorts of images very easily become a model of what the pinnacle of manliness looks like, reinforcing the notion that, to be manly, one has to be “scoring” with chicks. ...What virgin-shaming could be used for, besides simply a way to look manly in comparison to someone else, was to actually bring the male virgin into conforming with the norms: essentially, to get him laid so he’s a man like the rest of the gang.

The 'Problem' of Male Virginity (Everyday Feminism):

One of the things that I’ve seen come up over and over again in the aftermath of the UCSB shooting is the number of men... talking about the shame and pain of being a male virgin. They talk about feeling broken or unworthy, that they’ve missed some sort of open time frame where they could lose their virginity and now they’re (metaphorically) screwed. It feels like everyone knows – like you’ve been branded by a giant V. One of the reasons why men tend to freak out about the idea of being a virgin – especially being a virgin past college – is that we’ve grown up in the shadow of a cultural narrative that we believe to be law. The Standard Virginity Loss Narrative tells us that men are supposed to lose their virginity by a certain age – sometimes by age 18, sometimes by 21. The earlier you lose it, the better off you are... The narrative is fiction. It’s an idealized, heteronormative, suburban middle class ideal that the vast majority of us don’t live in.  The story turns our sexual development into a performance, just as masculinity is often a performance. And just as traditional masculinity is a fragile thing, any minor deviation from the Virginity Narrative throws the whole thing into disarray. When men fail to live up to this entirely arbitrary standard, we feel not just as though we’ve failed but that we’re failures. We’re defective. Wrong. And there will be plenty of people eager to reinforce the narrative, to mock us, and tell us that this deviation from the narrative calls our masculinity into question. Just as the gender police are eager to punish people who don’t live up to the traditional definitions of manhood. It’s not really surprising, to be honest. We fetishize virginity in men and women, just in opposite ends of the spectrum... But losing his virginity, on the other hand? That’s when the world is supposed to open up for you. The coming of age narrative for men inevitably links losing one’s virginity with becoming a man.  When you cry and moan about how awful it is that you haven’t had sex yet, you contribute to the problem. You’re helping to perpetuate the idea that virgin = defect. Even when those complaints are turned inward and you’re silently castigating yourself, you are continuing to reinforce that there’s something wrong because you haven’t had sex yet. You have to learn to let go of being defensive about it or feeling embarrassed, to stop responding as though being a virgin means you’ve done something wrong or that there’s something wrong with you. It means you have to consciously reframe your own thought patterns, reminding yourself that not having had sex yet has no bearing on your value as a person no matter your age. “You’re still a virgin.” “Yes, and?” “Have you ever even seen a woman naked before? “Not yet, so?” The people who will mock you and try to shame you are of no account; they’re showing themselves to be assholes, and why should you care about the opinions of assholes? Your value doesn’t come from who you have or haven’t slept with. It doesn’t come from where you fall on the bell-curve of starting sexual activity, whether you were precocious or a late bloomer.

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LIST OF STARTUPS FUNDED BY MAHINDRA GROUP

Mahindra and Mahindra group is a well-reputed Indian multinational conglomerate.  Mahindra and Mahindra group was founded way back in the year 1945. The founders of the group are J. C. Mahindra and K. C. Mahindra, and Malik Ghulam Muhammad who started this group with the name of Mahindra and Mohammad. After the partition of India, Malik Ghulam Muhammad left the company and immigrated to Pakistan, then later in the year 1948, K.C. Mahindra changed the name From “Mohammad & Mahindra” to “Mahindra and Mahindra”.

Presently, the Mahindra group has marked its presence in a number of businesses such as steel, aerospace, commercial vehicles, components, defense, logistics, real estate, renewable energy, agribusiness, etc.  Mahindra & Mahindra is counted in the list of twenty largest companies in India. Mahindra group is not only known for its business vision but also for active participation through its K.C. Mahindra Trust in the field of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). Project Nanhi Kali (aimed for the education of young girls) and Mahindra Hariyali Campaign (aimed to plant one million trees) shows the active and extensive participation of the group in CSR activities.

Mr. Anand Mahindra is the chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra Group of India. Mahindra group has acquired a number of businesses such as Reva Electric Car Company, Satyam Computer Services, Aero staff Australia, Holiday Club Resorts, etc., and have also funded some startups which became highly successful in their respective field that shows the extraordinary vision of Mr. Anand Mahindra.

In this article, we are going to talk about some of the successful startups funded by Anand Mahindra which shows his farsightedness and extraordinary vision.

Startups funded by Mahindra Group are:

Zoomcar was founded by David Back and Greg Moran in the year 2013. This self-drive car rental company is headquartered in Bangalore. In 2018, a huge amount of forty million dollars was invested by the Mahindra group in this car rental company. The company is successfully currently operating in 45 cities in India. The funding by the Mahindra group in this startup is a part of Mahindra’s strategy to promote sustainable mobility solutions.

Shethepeople is a digital news website particularly focused on women. It was started in the year 2016 by Shaili Chopra, an Indian journalist. In 2016, the Mahindra group invested an undisclosed amount in this digital platform which shows the firm belief of Mr. Anand Mahindra in women’s leadership. The website which is dedicated to promoting the success stories of women has managed to reach 85 million women across the world.

To read more, Click the link below

https://news.jugaadin.com/list-of-startups-funded-by-mahindra-group/

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Watch "Every parent deserves a daughter like Piku! #shethepeople #piku" on YouTube

Girls always support their parents atleast in india ,many males in india do not have that realisation or late realisation. It is mainly upbringing issue .

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Clear Your Schedules For These 5 Netflix Shows Coming Up With New Seasons In 2022 - SheThePeople

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Why is it hard to respect an opinionated woman?

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13 Powerful Quotes By Anand Mahindra To Recharge your Dreams

Summary: Anand Mahindra is ranked among the top 30 CEOs on social media. Apart from being a powerful leader he is also popular for voicing his opinions on various matters in the country and across the globe.

They say ‘a happy person makes a great leader’. Anand Mahindra, who is a Mumbai-based multinational conglomerate with revenue of more than $21 billion and the chairman of the Mahindra Group is standing true to his name.

Born on May 1, 1955, Anand Mahindra’s net worth is 210 crores USD. Bestowed with the Padma Bhushan Award, India’s third highest civilian award, Anand Mahindra was also included among the 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders' by Fortune magazine and was featured in its 2011 listing of Asia's 25 most powerful businesspersons.

While Anand Mahindra has been investing in Indian startups some of which include digital news website SheThePeople, social media platform LocalCircles, food tech startup DishCo, education company Naandi Education Support & Training (NEST), he has also established an NGO- Nanhi Kali that supports education for underprivileged girls in India.

An alumnus of Harvard University and Harvard Business School, he is known for his witty tweets that acknowledge and address various ongoing issues across the globe.

An amazing business mentor that he is, he has proved he is a powerful leader every now and then. We are listing some of the most inspiring quotes by the man who believes in thinking big while carrying empathy and compassion in his heart:

1.            “Leaders don't look behind or to the side. Instead, they look ahead.”

2.            “You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.”

3.            “When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.”

4.            “Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted — we should become disruptors ourselves.”

5.            “Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.”

6.            “Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.”

7.            “The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.”

8.            “Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.”

9.            “Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.”

10.   “There is a degree of freedom that creates aspirations.”

11.   “Brevity speaks. It forces you to convey complex thoughts.”

12.   “Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.”

13.   “Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.” 

We hope these wonderful quotes packed with motivation, wisdom and intelligence will inspire you to dream bigger and follow your passion without a doubt in your mind.

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