mardi 5 avril 2016
Jon Bernthal, ONTD's spring boyfriend, teases potential future in the MCU
'Punisher' solo series update: Jon Bernthal teases potential future in the MCU https://t.co/Qx245YTdIN #Daredevil
— Mashable News (@MashablNews) April 1, 2016
Jon says that the character is "in his bones". He's up for it but he wants to do it in a way that's "raw and intense" and that he wants to "push the envelope. Sounds hot, tbh.
Source
ONTD, what kind of ~raw, intense~ material would YOU expect from a Punisher series? Keep it holy now.
Jessica Alba talks about her Mexican roots + why her daughters might not easily identify as Latinas
In a new interview with Parents Latina Magazine, Jessica Alba answered a few questions about her Latina background.
How her Mexican heritage has impacted her motherhood:
"My heritage is all about family, which always comes first. And respect for yourself and for your elders is something that I’m passing on to my daughters."
On why her daughters might not identify as Latinas despite Jessica always identifying herself as such:
"I grew up around my Mexican-American grandparents. My grandmother was an incredibly strong woman and a great inf luence on me. I was also surrounded by tíos and tías at a lot of family events. My kids don’t have that constant proximity. I make sure they know where they came from and that they spend time with their relatives, but they’re not surrounded by it all the time. We have different cultures in the house."
When asked if her daughters speak Spanish:
"They know how to ask for besos and leche! They are going to be global citizens and will need to understand many languages, including Spanish, to make a difference in the world."
Read the whole interview at the source.
Sarah Palin to Azealia Banks: "I'm going delete your music from my young daughter's playlist!"
Hey Female Rapper - listen up, little darling. No one has any idea what you're wigging out about in these bizarre,...
Posted by Sarah Palin on Tuesday, April 5, 2016
This Sarah Palin-Azealia Banks feud is a truly historic moment for public stupidity https://t.co/sWODiWqeKb http://pic.twitter.com/GNFQACE9Jz
— Jezebel (@Jezebel) April 5, 2016
Sources: Facebook + Twitter
PayPal, North Carolina Part Ways Over Controversial Anti-Gay Law, Costing 400 Jobs
PayPal will not be expanding into North Carolina because of the state’s recently-passed “religious liberty bill,” costing the Tar Heel State an estimated 400 new jobs, Huffington Post is reporting.
North Carolina recently passed a controversial bill, HB2, that is perceived by some observers as being discriminatory to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) community. Specifically, the bill, sometimes derisively referred to as the “bathroom bill,” requires transgender individuals to use the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex at birth, rather than the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity.
What it’s like to use a public bathroom while transgender https://t.co/K9ZOhlbsgk http://pic.twitter.com/LKqaR27DgX
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) March 31, 2016
Further, North Carolina’s controversial bill leaves out the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” from its anti-discrimination laws, paving the way for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals. It also prevents cities in North Carolina from enacting their own LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws.
PayPal is having none of that.
The online payments company, which had planned to open an operations center in Charlotte and bring about 400 jobs to the state, has announced that they will build someplace else. In a blog post on PayPal’s website, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman made it clear that the decision to leave North Carolina rests solely on the fact that the state passed HB2.
“The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture. As a result, PayPal will not move forward with our planned expansion into Charlotte. This decision reflects PayPal’s deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect. These principles of fairness, inclusion and equality are at the heart of everything we seek to achieve and stand for as a company. And they compel us to take action to oppose discrimination.”
PayPal is one of the few companies to earn a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2016 Corporate Equality Index, a metric that measures business’ equality standards when it comes to the LGBTQ community, according to CNN.
Several major companies, including Facebook and Apple, have publicly opposed North Carolina’s law, but PayPal is the first major company to actually scrap plans to expand in the state.
Other businesses are threatening to leave North Carolina, or have already left, over HB2. According to The Charlotte News & Observer, Lionsgate Entertainment and the A & E cable channel have said they won’t produce any films or TV shows in North Carolina. That means that A & E’s upcoming TV series “SIX,” which is already filming in North Carolina, is packing up and leaving.
#HB2 prompts Hulu show to move from Charlotte to Vancouver, but Lionsgate will keep Dirty Dancing in NC: https://t.co/4e31voyilz #ncpol
— Colin Campbell (@RaleighReporter) April 4, 2016
Google Ventures has also announced that it won’t invest in any new companies in North Carolina until HB2 is repealed.
Across the country, states and, in some cases, cities, are grappling with the effects of the changing cultural and legislative landscape when it comes to LGBTQ issues. Georgia, for example, recently came close to passing a “religious liberty bill” that would have allowed clergy and businesses to refuse to provide certain services to LGBTQ individuals. That bill was staunchly opposed by business group and even the National Football League (NFL), which threatened to deny Atlanta the chance to host a Super Bowl should the bill pass (it did not). Similarly Missouri is also considering such a bill, according to this Inquisitr report, which is also generating heated opposition from the sports industry.
PayPal has said that it will continue to advocate for North Carolina’s HB2 to be overturned.
[Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images]
PayPal, North Carolina Part Ways Over Controversial Anti-Gay Law, Costing 400 Jobs is an article from: The Inquisitr News
How an 18 Year Old Video Game and a Transgender Character Just Reignited GamerGate
How an 18-Year-Old Video Game and a Transgender Character Just Reignited Gamer Gate https://t.co/3DwsEPZ06I http://pic.twitter.com/0QN5MA60NE
— pajiba (@pajiba) April 5, 2016
- BioWare's Baldur’s Gate has a new character who is transgender, released last week with the first add-on chapter to the game in nearly two decades.
- The expansion is currently sitting at a rating of only 3.6 out of 10 on Metacritic, and even lower on Steam. Hundreds of reviews giving the expansion zero ratings with reasonings like “I don’t have a problem with transgender people, but it’s not right to rub my face in it” and “my complaint isn’t with the transgender character but that she’s horribly written and only exists in order to check off a diversity checkbox for the SJWs”.
Beamdog, the company that saved the game and created the new expansion, responded:
Check out the whole great but rage inducing article at the source.
GamerGate is About Ethics in Gaming Journalism, Right?