something about it strikes me as disingenuous, i don't know. she's like the pet pakistani who the west likes because she espouses our worldview so people ghostwrites books and make movies and shower her with awards.
shareA very good point I to have found the saint hood of this girl to be more than i can stomach from the media, now a movie!
lets get things into perspective , girl shot in the head.
flown to the united kingdom for life saving surgery,a place where people are dying because of the lack of hospital beds.
but that means nothing a Asian girl has been shot she must be priority.
then she is given citizenship, a private tutor and she is allowed to live in the uk at tax payers and Pakistani consulate expense.
she goes around the world waffling utter nonsense and is being painted as the virgin mary or the 2nd coming
NOW WE HAVE A MOVIE, not every is fooled by this propaganda machine.
but that means nothing a Asian girl has been shot she must be priority.
she goes around the world waffling utter nonsense
You are a pig ignorant and racist motherfcker.
there's nothing wrong with it. why equate industry with evil? if malala is promoting education for girls, it's all good.
sharei wouldn't use the word evil...i just think it's fake and disingenuous, so therefore wrong.
sharethe fact is you really don't know if they're fake and disingenuous. alot of industries are good, and yes there are bad as well.
shareMan you just seem like a contrarian, how can you equate girls education as wrong.
Let us say for the sake of argument that everything about her is fake, isn't her message more important?
Would you consider a completely honest Nazi as having a right message?
Think critically for a second the way the message is delivered might be extremely heavy handed but there is nothing wrong with the message.
Because like 2193020391020348383 other girls don't have any rights, at all?
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It's manufactured and disingenuous. She is from a country with a history of highly educated women. Pakistan had a woman Prime Minister. The Taliban is differnet, of course. Barbaric and savage. But, why not make a movie about the Taliban and the horrible effects that it has on all young people. They make the boys go to war where they get killed. That is a lot worse than not being able to go to school.
Lack of education is a great injustice and that is Malala's fight and that is the focus here. The movie clearly states that Pakistan use to be a better place before the Taliban took over her village. Just because other injustices exist doesn't make this one less deserving of attention.
Every movement needs a figurehead to act as a simble. You think Martin Luther King was the only one fighting for Black civil rights, he just became yhe figurehead and could bring proper national attention to certain injustices. Just like Rosa Parks wasn't the first lady not to give up her seat on a bus. But they have a story that can be used to bring attention to an issue that needs it.
If there are boys who are standing up to the taliban and risking their own lifes not to be forced into military service then they need a voice too and hopefully one will emerge.
She is from a country with a history of highly educated women. Pakistan had a woman Prime Minister.
Also the Pakistani female prime minister was assassinated in the past decade. It's gotten pretty bad this past decade.
My only issue with Malala she may have a good PR team, but the source of all the problems come from a certain novel she and the extremists use to reference. How can she promote equality for women when her beliefs don't?
I apologize for any spelling/grammar mistakes. I'm on my phone 90% of the time.
If I want to talk about how progressive a country is, I wouldn't use a PM who was assassinated as an example.
Now go spread your ignorance elsewhere
There is absolutely no triumph or advocacy of Western values in this film. All any of them talk about is wanting to return to Pakistan. If the film has a Western spin, it is because that is its audience. You're missing the point.
shareand she wobbles her head from side to side when she talks... annoys tgr hell out of me.... and that stupid accent!!! stop talking already...
shareBy the industry built around her? Yes. By what she has to contribute? No. She should be awarded and recognized. People making money OFF HER is what is wrong.
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