Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Poverty Porn

Alice Miles describes Slumdog Millionaire for what it is: Poverty Porn.

1 comment:

witan said...

Business News: World's leading manufacturer of cosmetics, "Porns", has decided to manufacture and market a new face and body cream. Several Hollywood and Mumblywood (aka Bollywood) stars have been contracted to sponsor it on TV commercials. They will all appear in the commercials covered from head to foot with the cream, wearing nothing else. The company claims that the cream, worn for two hours on three consecutive days, will make the person stunningly, ravishingly, beautiful for the rest of his or her life.
The face-and-body cream will be manufactured entirely out of putrefied human excreta collected from residents of a Mumbai slum, and it will be called Mayo-Nayze, after the famous 20th Century writer Katherine Mayo, author of the monumental "Mother India".