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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ms-marvel-co-creator-woke-203741288.html

A month after "Ms. Marvel" was released and after a flood of negative review, the show is now the highest-rated Marvel project on Rotten Tomatoes higher than "Blank Panther" and "Avengers: Endgame."

Sana Amanat, the co-creator and executive producer of the Marvel Disney+ series and comics, said she wasnt surprised by the initial backlash, which she also saw when the comics were first released in 2013.

I think it comes from a place of anger and a sense that their identities are being threatened. If they cant connect with it, then thats OK. I just wish they wouldnt try to put it down, Amanat told NBC Asian America.

A wave of negative reviews was posted when the series was first released, criticizing it for its diversity and calling it too woke and cringe. Ms. Marvel was initially the lowest-rated Marvel Cinematic Universe series, with thousands giving the show one-star reviews many of the reviewers were men over the age of 30.

Amanat said everyone at the studio knew there would be negative reactions to the show, but she was more focused on the positive responses, which have been evident across social media and in reviews since the first episode streamed on June 8.

Despite the negative backlash, representing a diverse teenagers experience turned out to be the shows superpower.

Its amazing to see how theyre internalizing that imagery. I just hope it gives them a sense of competency that, frankly, I didnt have growing up, and a sense of connectedness inside of their culture and who they are because I think thats incredibly important, she said.

The series follows Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a Pakistani-American teenager who is obsessed with the Avengers especially Captain Marvel and struggles to fit in at school and home until shes endowed with superpowers by a bangle passed down from her great-grandmother.

Kamala learned her family has mystical ties to Islamic spirits, called djinns, and is being hunted by The Clandestines, a group of people headed by Najma her love interests mother (Nimra Bucha) from an alternate dimension. The group is searching for the bangle to open a gate to their realm and take over our reality.

The latest episodes show Kamala traveling back to India in 1947 as she learns more about her family lineage and steers clear of The Clandestines.

Amanat said the show, praised by many in the Muslim community for its representation, wanted to dive deeper into the characters than the comics did.

Online users appreciated the show for its accurate Islamic and Urdu phrases and nods to popular South Asian American culture, including the musical group Swet Shop Boys, calling out gossiping women in the community by referring to them as illumin-aunties and debating Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khans best film.

In episode two, Kamalas best friend, Nakia (Yasmeen Fletcher), defied stereotypes in the show and ran for a seat on the mosque board.

The biggest challenge is making sure that we represented the feminism and strong voice that Nakia specifically has, Amanat said.

She said having Nakia join the mosque board also highlighted the fact that Muslim women, especially women who wear hijabs, are often misinterpreted as oppressed.

Its a lovely way of showcasing the mosque and Nakias role at the mosque, but also the larger context of it because so many people have such a specific point of view of what mosque life is, she said.

The series also spoke to the magnitude of the 1947 Partition for many South Asian families who were forced to cross over the newly formed India-Pakistan border.

The event is pertinent in Kamalas family and the bangle-possessing powers passed down to her as her mothers side of the family left India on the last train to the city of Karachi.

This was very much an idea that came out of the writers room, Amanat said. The comics only lightly referenced the Partition with small vignettes and flashbacks but the writers saw it as an opportunity.

One of my favorite things, when I came onto the show, was that this is the anchor point of the series, this idea of what the Partition has done to multiple families, but also what its done to women, she said. And how often, women are forgotten in stories of trauma, but also in the big story and big historical events. Its the women who bear the brunt of the pain but whose stories are not told.

The period of political unrest included an influx of gendered violence with thousands of women being abducted, raped and murdered. Many victims never spoke about their trauma.

Amanat said incorporating the Partition into the story created more depth in the relationships surrounding Kamala, like her mother Muneebas (Zenobia Shroff) relationship with her own mother, Sana (Samina Ahmad).

The intention was to say, Well, what happens to these women after that?" she said. "The emotional disconnect, constantly searching for this place called home," she said. "So I thought that was a really interesting way of telling Kamalas identity.

HouseAtreidea posted...

I prefer donating to Christian churches.

Look who got suspended.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CovIdiots/comments/uebdbs/nuke_cancer_with_ivermectin/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-killed-tesla-slams-walmart-175411914.html

TC's a Karen, huh?

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For real?

If they're smart, they should never trust the US with it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10329701/Britney-Spears-father-borrowed-40K-company-later-hired-manage-estate.html

The new report also details how accounts for the singer were opened at Stonebridge Wealth Management, a firm Taylor co-founded and co-owned, shortly after the conservatorship began.

The firm claimed it did not receive fees for many services it provided, 'several other maneuvers appeared to benefit Ms. Taylor,' the report states.

Those include Britney's estate allegedly paying for a security company hired by her father to surveil 'Free Britney' protesters who criticized Taylor and, one former employee alleges, surveil Britney herself and paying some of Taylor's personal legal fees.

In 2010 the conservatorship directed tens of thousands of dollars from Britney's charitable foundation to a conservative Christian counseling group with ties to Taylor and her husband.

Jamie Spears 'also at times donated 10 percent of [income derived from Britney] to a church run by the Taylors', according to a financial document reviewed by The Times.

Earlier this month, Jamie filed a formal complaint against his daughter and her team in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The 69-year-old patriarch claimed he wanted to tie up loose ends and move on after Britney's conservatorship was officially dissolved, but blasted the 40-year-old singer's 'temporary conservators' for dragging out the process.

He also accused Britney and her team of releasing 'statements with no other purpose than to attack' him and trying to depict him as a 'disgraced, suspended conservator.'

https://twitter.com/BritneyTheStan/status/1544352513050218498

CADE FOSTER posted...

hope that nut gets the death penalty

If he does not, then the cops better expect a huge riot.

Jasmine rice.

DarkRoast posted...

DeSantis is very open about his "anti-expertise" schtick. He hates higher education, public health and scientists because they're "liberal" in his mind.

Hope he likes seeing his state undergoing the brain drain phenomenon.

Fascist Florida is here: https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state/

https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1544153949917401089

I don't mind gacha so long as the money is being used to fund new mainline games.

https://twitter.com/JimmyStreich/status/1544094852907941891

So basically, heterosexual bareback porn will be a thing of the past unless the woman ties up her tubes or is infertile.

Does he help out with the chores or do volunteer work?

Halo478 posted...

its fucking scary these traitorous supreme court justices will likely allow it they basically destroyed the epa thursday nothing they wont do to kill this country

All the more reason for blue states to divorce from the union collectively.

If they destroy democracy, then blue states have little recourse but to secede. Texas v. White be damned.

I have family in Southeast Asia.

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1542690814458994689

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-facebook-employee-says-ceo-191553107.html

A former Facebook employee has claimed that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once wielded a katana sword at the office after getting frustrated with his employees code.

AppSumo CEO Noah Kagan uploaded a 13-second video on TikTok on June 19 listing weird things that happened while he worked at Facebook.

Kagan shares at the start of the clip that he was the 30th employee at Facebook, which was founded in 2004.

According to the entrepreneur, Zuckerberg brought a katana sword to the office and waved it around because he didnt like the code and the stuff we were putting out on the website.

The video, which has been viewed over 50,000 times, had some commenters calling Zuckerberg a weeb, a term that pokes fun at a non-Japanese person who has an obsession with Japanese culture.

However, this is not the first time Kagan has mentioned Zuckerberg wielding a katana. In 2014, the AppSumo CEO released "How I Lost 170 Million Dollars: My Time as #30 at Facebook," an e-book about his experience working for the tech giant in 2005. In the book, he alleges that Zuckerberg, who was 21 at the time, would walk around with the sword and taunt underperformers.

Kagan writes, He had some great motivational lines. With love, hed say If you don't get that done sooner, I will punch you in the face, or I will chop you with this huge sword, while holding a huge sword in hand. To this day, I don't know why he had that sword.

I would like to remind people that the next seats for the WI Supreme Court will be on 2023 and 2025.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/atheist-worker-fired-refusing-attend-163408724.html

So much for freedom from religion. SCOTUS has only emboldened the crazies to force their religious zealotry on other people's throats.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1541850909499658240

https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1541858704366206978

Will Meadows be indicted?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/central-florida-pastor-arrested-pleasuring-030826048.html

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https://twitter.com/r0wdy_/status/1541107209114894337

UnfairRepresent posted...

He doesn't want to argue about this. That's how mad he is. He just wants people to accept how fucked up the process was

And that's fair because gutting Roe will only further ruin SCOTUS's image to the public. Even Republican insiders are sweating over the amount of backlash they'll face against suburban women voters.

Sue his parents for helping cover it up.

Boebert is a failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEFfjFkp8M

candyapplered posted...

The 30 minute lesbian sex scene in Lightyear was a bit much.

Did we watch the same movie or are you making stuff up?

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Ivany2008 posted...

I get why people like the direction of action rpg, I just wish they had a side franchise that focused solely on turn-based. It's become so common to have action rpgs these days, and they used to be the kings of turn-based games.

They're bringing back Tactics Ogre.

https://twitter.com/Caseyski5/status/1539415771088138243

A_Good_Boy posted...

Their sheepdog training only ever went over how they should maul their sheep. It didn't include a damn thing on what to do when a wolf entered the pen.

The Uvalde police needs a thorough replacing starting with the cops who failed their duty to save lives.

Guide posted...

Which they could've unlocked anyway, they had tools specifically for that.

Agreed, yet why didn't they?

...Why does it keep on getting worse?

https://twitter.com/BNNBreaking/status/1539278065490178048

TheHoldSteady posted...

Welp. Federalize social media. These platforms have too much power and influence to be owned by billionaires with conflicts of interest.

Doesn't Mastodon already do that?

https://www.newsweek.com/judge-bans-11-year-old-rape-victim-having-abortion-1717723

Just wait until the far right make this a common reality in America.