Agent Chaos 13

MBTI & Directors (x) Deeyah Khan: INFJ

“There’s an African proverb that says: “If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth.”

I would like to ask to Muslim parents and communities: will you love and care for your children without forcing them to meet your expectations?

Can you choose them instead of your honor? Can you understand why they’re so angry and alienated when you put your honor before their happiness?

Can you try to be a friend to your child so that they can trust you and want to share with you their experiences, rather than having to seek it somewhere else?

And to our young people tempted by extremism: can you acknowledge that your rage is fueled by pain?

Will you find the strength to resist those cynical old men who want to use your blood for their own profits?

Can you find a way to live? Can you see that the sweetest revenge is for you to live a happy, full, and free life; a life defined by you and nobody else?

Why do you want to become just another dead Muslim kid?

And for the rest of us: when will we start listening to our young people?

How can we support them in redirecting their pain into something more constructive?

They think we don’t like them. They think we don’t care what happens to them. They think we don’t accept them.

Can we find a way to make them feel differently? What will it take for us to see and notice them before they become either the victims or perpetrators of violence?

“All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries when she is a four month old fetus in the womb of her mother. This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother. Each of us spent 5 months in our grandmother’s womb. And she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother. We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother’s blood before she herself is born.”

- Layne Redmond, When the Women Were Drummers

Meanwhile poor Elphaba, who has never experienced flirting with ANYONE before, let alone the world's most flamboyant closeted lesbian tropical bird, has no idea what the hell she's looking at and is just like ??????

Still, points for at least attempting to match Galinda's freak

"There may not be, you know, as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you...if you break faith with what you know...that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that's enough. Love has never been a popular movement and no-one's ever wanted really to be free. The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person, you could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide in yourself not to be."

WICKED: PART ONE (2024) — Dir. John M. Chu