I just had to let you all know how incredibly exciting this is for me. I mean prior to this, the onl

I just had to let you all know how incredibly exciting this is for me. I mean prior to this, the only Muslim x-character we had was Dust. You remember Dust right? The burka wearing, Afghani refugee, New X-men that references her religious preferences with every other word. The one that was created in 2002 as a statement in Marvel's position on political correctness. harbor inn seafood restaurant Dust is a device. She is socially aware minority representation first, badass character second. And she's a member of the New/ Young X-men. Most people couldn't care less about the New X-men unless you're like me and then you only care about the cool rising stars of the group like Trance and Loa. Monet St. Croix is not some minor background character and she is not defined by only one aspect of her life. She is not a stereotype! I've always been intrigued by her dark-skinned racial ambiguity often thinking 'what if Monet St. Croix was a little bit more like me?' (It's what we have to do when our choice of South Asian characters includes waste-of-purple-ink-Indra, utterly-boring-and-stereotyped-Dr.-Rao, and friggin' awesome Omega Sentinel that was just decapitated by a handless long-haired emo teen boy.) And now, she is. So maybe she's not the ideal Muslim in regards to, I don't know, her clothing choices or what have you but God knows neither am I and millions of other self-identified followers of the faith. It's just nice to get some representation and some acknowledgment really. harbor inn seafood restaurant To think that there are people out there with the same questions and the same dilemmas and sometimes even the same answers. I know she's a fictional character and all, but I'm just a little bit prouder today. And seriously props to PAD for the execution as well. The way it was done with her having to defend her faith while also bantering harbor inn seafood restaurant with Guido and talking about her hardly mentioned but obviously important mother made this scene just very well done and spoke leagues as to her character. Believable leagues. The comparisons to mutantdom felt like it was giving something back to the x-franchise that's been missing ever since Utopia if not before. This is what the X-Men were created for. To expand on the concept of what it is to be a minority in the world today. I swear, Monet is just inching her way up the leader board for possession of my heart. She just beat out Paige Guthrie harbor inn seafood restaurant in my top Generation Xers list and is really close to knocking Rictor out of the running in X-Factor and that's a hard thing to do. Also, Rich and Grace almost got married to Daylight. I freaked like I do every time I hear that song and I'm not the one playing it. Matt says it's about urinating in the street. This song will now be playing at my wedding.
harbor inn seafood restaurant I ve been behind on my X-Factor and just caught up today. When I read #217 and saw Monet come out, I thought, fuck yeah! Like you said, she s not the ideal representation of Muslims but she s definitely one face of them and I love it. It was so exciting for me I had to see if others were as excited by it and ended up coming across your blog. Btw, I like your writing style. Reply Delete Add comment Load more...