Indian Ad With Female Boss Sparks an Uproar: Is It Super Feminist or Super Sexist?

Strange plot wants it both ways

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There's a lot going on in this new ad from India, and the Internet is fired up about it.

The spot, for mobile provider Airtel, opens on two working professionals in a meeting. A woman, who's the boss, gives her male employees a task, and one protests, claiming there's not enough time to finish it. The boss is sympathetic, but lets him know it has to be done.

She heads home for the day, while he begrudgingly burns the midnight oil.

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